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This is an article I got from Michael Signorile. And with his permission I am copying it here in my journal. His column is prnited in the New York Press and is emailed out each week.Please check out his web site at, http://www.signorile.com/index.html He also has a radio show. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the details as to when and where. Please feel free to email Michael for details. Also you can email him to get added to the list to receive his column.
November 4, 2003
The Gist
Michelangelo Signorile
Heroes or Lepers?
Our dress-up president won't go near the dead or wounded. But Cher
will.
Have you seen all of that graphic media coverage of the 2000-plus
wounded servicemen and -women who served in Iraq, laying in military
hospitals with missing limbs? Me neither. I was made more aware of
them last week by… Cher. You heard me right. And don't you dare
laugh: With the corporate media so hush-hush on the topic and the
Bush administration trying to hide images of the dead and wounded,
let's be thankful there are still some divas with big mouths left.
A transcript made its way around the web last week of the glitzy
entertainer's call in to C-Span's morning show Washington Journal.
It was a call that would soon incur the wrath of the right-wing
radio hit mob and a tacky gossip columnist or two.
"I would like to say I had the occasion the other day to spend the
entire day with troops that had come back from Iraq and had been
wounded, and I also visited troops during the Vietnam era," the
unidentified caller from Miami Beach told the C-Span moderator Peter
Slen, discussing her visit to the Walter Reed Army Hospital.
full column:
http://www.signorile.com/articles/nyp101.html
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