This comment proves that you didn’t look at more than a few pictures.
I’ve seen more people at WNBA games.
You been to a WNBA game? Was it, like, shirts and skins?
I hate to point out the blindingly obvious, but that is because a straight-up democracy gives the Shiites complete control over the country and the power of life and death over their Sunni oppressors and the Kurds who nobody really likes anyway.
Hooray for democracy.
I wish…
…well, maybe not.
A titillating concept. But impractical. It would, however, resolve the question of whether or not the jiggle-to-dribble ratio is a direct 1:1.
I would have surmised a 2:1 ratio myself. 1 being the dribble for clarity’s sake.
But I am willing to stand corrected by witnessing the experi…er, game.
As to the OP, keep scraping. Surely there must be more worthy stuff at the bottom of the Invasion Jusfication barrel. Or not.
You’re right. Everything you mentioned is blindingly obvious.
So you thinks that media is biased, but it’s not a “vast liberal conspiracy”?
This leaves open a small liberal conspiracy, a vast conspiracy that’s not liberal, or something that’s vast and liberal, but not a conspiracy.
It’s a small, but tastefully done, liberal conspiracy.
Judging from the pictures, the whole affair appears quite normal: no maniacal throngs jumping up and down, no deranged faces spitting in the cameras, no shooting small arms in the air; barely deserves a mention. If the crowds would draw out denuded Saddam on the end of a rope and beat him to death with slippers, it would be reprted widely. Alas…
I have reason to suspect that the editorial processes that determine which stories get what coverage have many variables.
You may be right.
Well, I think the media is biased, and that it’s not a “vast liberal conspiracy.” But that’s only because I don’t think the media can be biased only in one direction.
Just pointing out your unshakable biases, but you probably already knew about those.
In other words, nothing to say about the matter being discussed except take cheap shots at someone who is pointing out things you do not like and cannot refute.
The fact is that the demonstration (1) is not huge by any means (there are still anti-american demonstrations taking place in Europe which are larger than that), (2) does not show any signs of being pro-American and does show a few signs of being anti-American and (3) Even if it were 100% pro-American does not mean much of anything because American intervention has just managed to bring chaos, anarchy and civil strife to Iraq and you are going to have lots of people demonstrating against lots of other people and, as soon as they get a chance, killing each other energetically. In that context, what would be good news is that Iraqis, rather than demonstrating or fighting were going about their daily lives and that is, most definitely, not happening.
What kind of namby-pamby whitewash is this? There are variables and there are constants. Everybody knows that if instead of “No to terrorism” signs there were “No to US occupation” signs carried around, all the major networks would pick it up right away. Not because their black hearts rejoice at everything anti-US; because their black hearts rejoice at controversy: they stand ready to peddle any snub, anything humiliating to anybody. If people will ever stop behaving like animals, media will start covering dog fights.
A number of hits is not at all relevant (especially when the vast majority don’t have anything to do with the story in question!). The important thing is how big a deal the coverage was, and Sam was right: it was not treated as major news.
Hur, so wadda want, a buncha liberal judges running around defending the so called “rights” of them Kurds? The polls clearly show overwhelming support for their elimination of them there Kurds, but you just wanna impose your knowitall will over all the people, hunh. Why you hate democracy so much? 
The Sunnis want to eliminate the Kurds and the Shiites but the Shiites want to eliminate the Kurds and the Sunnis but depending on the electoral system you could have the two smallest groups join together to eliminate the larger one or have the larger one eliminate the other two. In any case you are now left with two groups which want to eliminate each other. The American occupation forces are, de facto, fighting the Sunnis and, therefore, aiding the other two groups. This ensures the animosity gets even worse, if this is possible. If and when the Americans leave the place, the bloodbath is going to be of epic proportions. The idea that elections is going to solve any of this is as laughable as the idea that what Vietnam needed to solve all its problems was free elections. I am afraid the only way out of this one may be a Vietnam-style bloodbath. I really hope I am mistaken and it may work out better but I don’t have much hope.