August 29, 2003

How FOXNews, Owned by Rupert Murdoch and Managed by RepublicaOperative Roger Ailes, Tries to Trivialize The Deaths of Our American Soldiers

How can Britt Hume sleep at night? Perhaps he lives in Stepford or, even more likely, the Valley of the Dolls.

"Brit Hume was an apologist for Bush the Elder, playing
tennis with the administration back then. Can you see
the collar around his neck, with the leash being held
by the White House? The right wing shills don't give a
damn about our soldiers dying. That's just the bottom
line. They just want to protect their power base and
their careers, at the cost of our young men and women
in Iraq."

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/08/29_fox.html

How FOXNews, Owned by Rupert Murdoch and Managed by RepublicaOperative Roger Ailes, Tries to Trivialize The Deaths of Our American Soldiers

Plus, A BuzzFlash Reader Proves Brit Hume is Dead
Wrong

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

From Brit Hume's War Time "Grapevine" on FOXNews
[LINK]:

California Roughly Same Size As Iraq

Two hundred and seventy seven U.S. soldiers have now
died in Iraq, which means that, statistically
speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying
from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being
murdered in California...which is roughly the same
geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate
California has more than 2,300 homicides each year,
which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile,
U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which
means they are incurring about 1.7, including illness
and accidents, each day.

This, by the way, is straight from the Pentagon and
proves that FOXNews is just a megaphone for the
administration. A few weeks back, Rumsfeld used a
similarly thoughtless comparison, but just not with
California.

Brit Hume was an apologist for Bush the Elder, playing
tennis with the administration back then. Can you see
the collar around his neck, with the leash being held
by the White House? The right wing shills don't give a
damn about our soldiers dying. That's just the bottom
line. They just want to protect their power base and
their careers, at the cost of our young men and women
in Iraq.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

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I'd Rather Be in California
A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary

LETS DO SOME CALCULATIONS

Reshaping the dialogue to ask the real question --
Which is safer, a soldier fearing combat death or
death from an accident in Iraq or a person fearing
homocide in California?

A:
6.6 average daily murders in California with
38,000,000 people at risk.
(6.6/38,000,000 = probability is 0.0000002)

B:
1.7 average DAILY military related deaths in Iraq with
150,000 solders at risk (1.7/150,000 = probability is
0.00001)

C:
RELATIVE RISK = RISK IN IRAQ / RISK IN CALIFORNIA

= 67.5 (when done on a calculator)

A SOLDIER IN IRAQ IS 66 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED
IN COMBAT OR BY ACCIDENT THAN A PERSON KILLED BY
HOMICIDE IN CALIFORNIA.

OR

IF YOU ARE COMPARING DEATH IN IRAQ TO MURDER IN
CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA IS 68 TIMES SAFER.

Lets send Brit Hume to Iraq, in any military uniform.

Also, now you see why FOX News is technically correct
and unfair and unbalanced in saying that most of
American voted for Bush in 2000 -- this is true if you
are counting acreage or square miles (red versus blue
on the map) and not people.

Have a great day,

Harry Piotrowski
Oak Park

Posted by richard at August 29, 2003 05:19 PM