[CanYoAssDigIt] More Celebrity News

This time I put the unimportant stuff at the head of this little
essay, and saved the important news to the very end. To avoid exposure
to trivia, skip to the very end of this message.

I heard a really despicable "news" report on the rightward-rushing
NPR, (when the process of making it a clone of CNN and Fox is
complete, the Bush administration will no doubt divest the government
of this asset, turning it over to the former CBS execs that are
running it now).

The contents of this particular despicable report: soft soaping the
pentagon's report on Guantanamo (that's with a soft G, please). The
Pentagon's report was itself an attempt to soft soap the scandal. But
I loved the spin the NPR "reporter" put on it.

For example, she said that a Koran was desecrated when some urine from
a guard inadvertently splashed on the book and the prisoner holding
it.

Prisoner desecration (aka torture, is richly documented by Amnesty
International among others) thus becomes a footnote to Koran
desecration. What the devil was the guard's urine doing cascading
around the cell anyway? This slipped by without comment.

But the "reporter" was quick to conclude "the Pentagon found NO
evidence" (her emphasis, not mine) that the Newsweek report of a Koran
flushed down the toilet was true.

Now we learn that besides beatings, dog attacks, sexual humiliation,
water torture, and death, prisoners are being forced to listen to
Christina Aguilera's music! There's a scandal that will get some
traction!

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