https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/lynch/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:12:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/lynch/ 32 32 16720591 https://www.quakerranter.org/the_empty_promise_of_supportin/ https://www.quakerranter.org/the_empty_promise_of_supportin/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:14:39 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=505 More on the “myth that is ‘Private Jessica’ ”:www.guardian.co.uk/iraq/Story/0,2763,1081207,00.html, a media creation born of propaganda and racism. I feel sad for the real Jessica Lynch caught up in all this. elsewhere Paul Krugman point out how the Bush Administration isn’t “supporting the troops”:http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/opinion/11KRUG.html, “But I also suspect that a government of, by and for the economic elite is having trouble overcoming its basic lack of empathy with the working-class men and women who make up our armed forces.”

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/the_empty_promise_of_supportin/feed/ 8968 505 https://www.quakerranter.org/pentagon_movie_and_mythmaking/ https://www.quakerranter.org/pentagon_movie_and_mythmaking/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:54:48 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=433 There’s an interesting conversation over at TalkLeft about the Pentagon’s vetting of movie scripts. One of the next movies they’re working on is a dramatization of the the already highly-embellished story of the “rescue” of Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq (one’s tempted to ask whether a movie about her could even say “Based on a True Story”).

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