Singer Pat Boone Blames CBS (Joe Gandelman)
Singer Pat Boone says that when CBS aired the photos of alleged Iraqi prisoner abuse at the hands of U.S. guards it turned the United States into a target. In a letter to the lively conservative website NewsMax.com, Boone condemned CBS's "irresponsible and unpatriotic behavior" and declared:" The next time America or Americans suffer at the hands of terrorists, thank CBS."
He better not get too controversial or he'll lose his fan.
Which fan is that?
I'd have to say that CBS was right to release the photos and that Boone is off-base.
When our people commit crimes in our name we need to know it. And what those guys did was tamer than what goes on in Arab jails every day, so I doubt seriously we're that much targets, since we're not bragging, we're prosecuting.
I think the next American to suffer at the hand of the hands of the terrorist, the blame should be geared toward the terrorist, not CBS, not the President, please place blame where it belongs. My kindergarten teacher once taught me its not nice to point fingers.
Pat Boone is still alive?
Anyways, alive or dead, he's correct - and Dean, we needed to know all the details of Abu Gharib...we didn't need the photographs; that is where CBS got into sensationalized news which was clearly done in order to harm President Bush and the war effort.
He's a fine one to talk about "irresponsible and unpatriotic behavior" when his own daughter was responsible for bringing the following to network TV:
Debby Boone... One Step Closer - April 1982
Starring Debby Boone, James Coco, and Dionne Warwick
Think about the amount of suffering inflicted on America by over 10,000 performances of "You Light Up My Life"! My God! The horror!
I think they should show all the horrors of war -- including the atrocities of the enemy. Executions should also be televised -- along with depictions of the crimes. And they _definitely_ should show what abortion actually is. (I know they won't, of course, and I know why.)