This just in - President Obama is going to make an announcement. It’s going to have something to do with Osama Bin Laden. What can it be? As we wait, let’s now tell you that President Obama is going to annouce that Osama Bin Laden is dead, that he was killed by some US military action.
Yessirree, President Obama is going to make an announcement that Osama Bin Laden has been killed. Let’s wait and see how American Forces were able to find and kill him and obtain his body. Let’s wait for President Obama’s announcement.
HEY FUCKNUGGETS - how can President Obama make an annoucement if you fucknuggets broadcast everything he is going to be telling us first?
And the first part where you were trying to skate around the annoucement but still tell us all about it - painfully ridiculous. Thanks for that, it almost made up for interrupting The Celebrity Apprentice.
But they had to interrupt Celebrity Apprentice! Trump makes it a point to be a pain in the ass blowhard to the president for the past month, it’s sort of a perfect karmic happening.
According to NBC You can blame Congressional aides who were shooting off thier mouths to the media almost as fast as the WH could inform the various CongressCritters of the news.
I’m waiting for Trump’s announcement that it’s not the real bin Laden, and Obama did that during his show just to derail his presidential campaign. Trump will demand bin Laden’s birth certificate and tons of DNA testing. The DNA testing will be challenged. Then assuming it comes back bulletproof, Trump will allege that bin Laden was actually killed secretly before the 2008 elections by Obama’s personal spies and kept on ice, to pull out during a low moment prior to the 2012 election season and secure Obama’s re-election.
I understand reasoning about not providing a martyr’s tomb and doing a proper burial so as to not piss a lot of people off, but holy crap, there better be a fuckload of video footage, some fingerprints, and a big blood sample in storage.
You’re complaining that the journalists did their jobs? I’m guessing you started watching before I did, but by the time I turned on the news last night I saw CBS and NBC reporting plainly “Osama bin Laden is dead.” It was annoying that they had to hem and haw for half an hour before Obama finally got on the air, but that’s not their fault.
And what would you like NBC to be saying while they wait for him to appear? “We understand that the President will be saying something about something-or-other, but otherwise we have nothing to add, other than that we’re all standing around here with our thumbs up our asses. Thank you for tuning in…”
The news doesn’t belong to a person. If a journalist has news, it’s his or her job to report it, not wait until an official has a chance to make an announcement.
Because this should have been a highly-classified operation, one which I would not expect there to be any media embedded in the unit performing the kill. I can’t imagine that having non-combatants along to run the video camera would improve the effectiveness of that unit. For there to be video footage would imply that theatricality had been placed above the effectiveness and safety of the servicemembers on the mission.
If cops can have dash-mounted video cameras, there is no reason the SEALs couldn’t be carrying helmet-cams. At the very least they would want to document the compound and any intelligence they gathered during the firefight. There will also be copious footage of the body after its return to the carrier. None of this will ever be released to the public, but it will be available to the world’s intelligence communities as needed.
I was assuming that any video would have been made by servicemembers. That’s kind of my point. Servicemembers who are carrying a camera around to document the action are not fighting the enemy or defending their comrades. It would be simply idiotic to task people to do such a thing in the middle of a firefight on an enemy position.
Sure there is. They have other crap to carry. And they shouldn’t be worrying about getting that sort of documentation during a firefight. They should be concerned with carrying out their mission, defending their own lives, and defending the lives of their comrades, in that order. Once the target is dead, they can take a still picture if such is needed to document their success.
What possible benefit could having video of Bin Ladin’s death provide US citizens?
