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Posted on Feb 23, 2007
Weekly Video Roundup

This week’s collection of Truthdig-flavored videos includes a hard look at the real Iraq; Fox News’ smear campaign against Barack Obama; and the gayest place John Amaechi has ever seen.

No. 1: The Real Iraq

Britain’s Channel 4 News highlights the images and stories from Iraq that have been left out of mainstream news reporting.

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No. 2: Meet the Press for Idiots

Conan O’Brien’s team put together this 30-second howler. Watch it for the final scene.

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No. 3: Fox News Targets Obama

Documentarian Robert Greenwald has collected some of Fox News’ worst smears against Barack Obama, who sensibly responded to the attacks by freezing out Fox reporters. At the end of the video, Greenwald urges the Nevada Democratic Party, which plans to allow the “fair and balanced” network to host a debate, to do the same.

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No. 4: Gay Former NBA Player Takes Maher Into the Locker Room

John Amaechi tells Bill Maher that NBA locker rooms are “the gayest places I have ever seen”—full of ostensibly macho guys primping and preening in front of each other.

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By Donovan, February 26, 2007 at 9:24 am #
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“We should go ahead and vote every politician out of office that voted for this outrage.”

I’d like to amend that: “We should go ahead and vote every politician out of office.”

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By Wally Slowik, February 25, 2007 at 9:44 am #
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I hate to say this, however, what did you expect?  War IS hell, that is why you should never, never, never wage it.  I spoke to many people who supported the war with this simple statement -lets see what you think when you see the body bags coming home.  When the bombings in London occured people were outraged, why?  Because white western people got killed, if a hundred eastern brown people get killed, well, that is the cost of war.  That is insane, pure insanity.  This is going on because WE allow it, stop buying the products that avertise on Fox News, if a religious leader says “bomb them in the name of the lord” stop sending them money, this is corporate america, they only listen to money.

We should go ahead and vote every politician out of office that voted for this outrage.

In Chicago in the late 70’s there was a snowstorm, shut the city down, the public was so enraged at the poor city sevices that they voted the mayor out in a big way, ever since then you bet whatever mayor is in office at the time makes sure the plows are out when it snows.  We have a mayoral election coming up this week, it snowed two weeks ago, they actually had city workers shoveling the sidewalks!  THAT is a leason in politics we need to teach the big boys and girls.

W Eugene Slowik

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By Charles Lamar Wilson, February 24, 2007 at 7:25 pm #
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The corporate media is run by the"NEW WORLD
  ORDER”’ people. Their plan is to mold us into
  idiots.  To them the truth is dangerous and
  creates a thinking population.  Thinking is
  not in the plan.  The federal government has
  gotten to big,and has taken power away from
  state governments.  Whats happening in 1raq
  is just part of the lie.  America is no longer
  a country of the people.  We have lost our
  country to the neo-cons; the zionest; and
  to the federal reserve corporation.  We must
  face reality and change back to a republic.
    The federal governments power,by law,
  should be Washington DC,10 miles around and
  its territorys. Each state should be a country
  with in itself. With a republic form of
  government.  In 1913 congress gave its right
  to control and distribute money to a group of
  wolves called the FERDERAL RESERVE CORPOR-
  ATION.  And since then we have been lied to
  and tricked into inflation and wars around
  the globe.  To them war is very profitable,
  and controlling the people, with what should
  be their own money,is the ultimate chess
  game. The FEDS(as their called)create money
  out of thin air, and its backed by nothing.
    Then this private corporation,lends the
  money to the US government that has the right,
  and was given the responsibility,by the
  constitution,to print and distribute the
  peoples money thats backed by gold. The
  biggest trick of all is that they also charge
  the government interest to borrow its own
  money.  Congress committed treason in 1913,
  by allowing a private bank to do this to the
  people. Lets take back our government.  The
  first thing is to do away with the FEDERAL
  RESERVE SYSTEM. Next the IRS CORPORATION.
    We have god given rights. Let us stand
  up and affirm them.
   
      Charles Lamar Wilson
      “a sovereign free human being of the
      earth”

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By Quy Tran, February 24, 2007 at 4:06 pm #
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Impeachment is needed ! That’s all we wanted six years ago.

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By James C. Gibson, February 23, 2007 at 7:43 pm #
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It way past the time for all of the world to see what is really happening in Iraq. I wish all networks would have the backbone to report and show the true devastation of this ill concieved pre-emptive war.

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