Montel Pwns Fox News Simpletons

I love the toss to the commercial. “We’re talking to Montel Williams about .. Keith Ledger …” That guy is just reading a script. In fact they weren’t talking to him about that because he changed the subject.

I’m still confused. So we shouldn’t talk about Heath Ledger’s death? All news shows should focus only on the troop’s that died that day? I think if we’re going to talk about all the bad that’s going on in Iraq, we need to also talk about the lives that a lot of those soldiers are changing, even if it’s just a one on one basis.

However, I’m for bringing them home ASAP. I’m with RP on this and think it’s an unconstitutional war. But to talk about the Iraq war like there has been some sort of massive casualty count is ridiculous. The number of casualties in this war has been nothing compared to the amounts from previous engagements.

Actually, Montel didn’t say that we shouldn’t talk about Keith Ledger’s death. He said that we should ALSO talk about the dead in the war.

This is nothing new. Americans seem to me to have a twisted sense of the relative worth of lives. JonBenet Ramsey’s death probably got more news coverage than the cumulative coverage of every other murder in the US that year. I find that disgusting. Montel is making a similar point. How does Keith Ledger’s death deserve more press coverage than the death of an American soldier who is killed on duty in Iraq?

Montel missed the point. This is a morning magazine show, just like Good Morning America, or the Today show. It was not a news show. So what was Montels’ point? That such a magazine show should talk about nothing but the war in Iraq? Maybe Montel’s show could have had better ratings if only he had practiced what he seems to be preaching, no?