Laura Ingraham's Hotel Balcony
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I'd like to shove the latest tragedy about reporter Kimberly
Dozier, the CBS correspondent who came close to dying in Baghdad, down Laura
Ingraham's pie hole. Lord knows, it's big enough.
Ingraham, back from the war a few months ago, was all high and mighty after her hack radio Iraq tour,
saying that journalists should get out more, away from their hotel
balconies and actually report the war.
The report I heard yesterday included the graphic details that Dozier's heart
had stopped beating, but they got it pumping again. In fact, one of the medical
personnel caring for Ms. Dozier said if the accident had happened in the states
she would have died. Her two colleagues did. We still don't know the severity
of her wounds. However, when I saw her on TV, being transported to the plane on that was
to take her to Germany, it took my breath away; medical tubes and gizmos everywhere.
There's nothing I like better than right-wing radio hacks who take 10 days
in Iraq, under cover, protected from enemies, to get the story, then come
back and trumpet their newfound knowledge about war.Even with constricted coverage, the tally of journalists killed in Iraq is
now 71, more than the number killed in Vietnam or World War II. (This war
is now six months short of the United States involvement in World War II,
but at least then we knew we were winning by this point.)Shaken by the CBS losses, networks were reassessing how to cover a story
with such excruciating risks. Journalists in Iraq are hamstrung in Iraq just
as the troops are, struggling, with ever greater frustration and higher costs,
to do the job they were sent in to do.Live
From Baghdad: More Dying – Maureen Dowd
James
Brolan also gave his life, as did Paul
Douglas, who was the first black journalist killed in Iraq.
I guess there wasn't a hotel balcony around. Someone should inform Laura Ingraham.
I'm sure she'll care.
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| Laura's vanity combat shot. |
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