Murdoch's Tab Wild For Liberal Rag's Blasted Bowser Pix!

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Choire

12/19/07 11:20AM

Filed to: BRING THE DOGS HOME NOW

A photo editor of the New York Post wrote a desperate plea last night: "I am on URGENT hunt for images of the (now dead) NY times Bureau dog Hentish and two other dogs that are also in the NY times Bureau, Itchy and Scratchy. (See Reuters story below) I need something today- Dec 18th. Might any of you have any images of them from years past or... know any freelancers shooting in Iraq right now that you can recommend me to email right now. Perhaps one of them might have some images." WHO WILL KEEP NEW YORK TIMES DOGS ITCHY AND SCRATCHY SAFE FROM MURDEROUS BLACKWATER NOW? By the way, we want puppy pics too—and we don't pay that standard photo rate! We pay nothing!

Looking for NY times Bureau dog Hentish [Lightstalkers]

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Mediahohoho Choire 12/19/07 12:16PM

@Mediahohoho: But it is the kind of horseshit that soothes the conservative conscience after four years of Abu Ghraib-like prison administration throughout Iraq, Blackwater and other civilian contractors acting with immunity from prosecution, civilian casualties no one really wants to get an accurate count on—four years of the U.S. doing everything it can to compete with fucking Saddam Hussein as biggest assholes to hit Iraq since the British left (a prize one wouldn't think could be contested but, hey, look what a little lack of planning can do for the world's largest military when it decides to outsource, well, everything it can)—U.S, contractors building children's hospitals for $50 million that can't operate because human feces rains from the ceilings on every floor, four years of intermittent electricity (even with oil production exceeding pre-war levels), and to say that because Iraqis do worse murders than the private security guards of the occupying power's state department do to random citizens whom they kill for "looking at them wrong" and then chalk up the Iraqis loathing for us and desire for us to get the fuck out of their country when all we care about is some newspaper's fucking dog? To say then that the only variable in this fucked up mess is "our freeedom," well, enjoy that Kool-Aid, bub, but that's some laughable fucking horseshit.

SheWalkedWithAZombie Choire 12/19/07 01:07PM

@Mediahohoho: Hey I agree with you. And

sorry to trivialize the discussion with my loldog. I just couldn't

resist. She is adorwible isn't she?

I don't want to defend the fact that we are not shown the realities

of the war's human cost but killing pet dogs is another aspect of the

utterly socio-pathic mentality of the Blackwater mercenaries and that's

not insignificant. (Although I know that the media will now turn it

into a maudlin story that utterly misses the point.)

Frankly, I think we should hear more about the fact that war

is devastating to life that is not just human — particularly in terms

of all of the environmental habitat destruction that has occurred...and

continues. Along with the oil industry (that SH and the Iraqis

themselves have had no small part in) the two Gulf wars have caused the

utter destruction of their wetlands (Eden, historically, not for

nothing) threatening extinction in a myriad of species. Not to mention

the Marsh Arabs way of life.

dola Choire 12/19/07 12:45PM

Obvy, Gawker is the place to come to find out that Heidi and Spencer's wedding is off and whether or not Julia is now banging the guy from Happy Hour.

'Solidarity' isn't in vogue anymore but totes lame abbreviations of words still are? Or did you mean the other s-word, 'snark'? Either way, who are you again?

Mediahohoho Choire 12/19/07 11:36AM

Christ. So much more interesting to write about one dead dog than hundreds of thousands of dead civilians (or even just 17 murdered bystanders blackwater dispatched just...fucking...because). I sometimes wonder if they do, in fact, hate us for our freedom-as has been declared-or if there might be some other reason.