Charlie Daniels - 2005 Soapbox Archives

2005 Soap Box Archives

Same Ol same Ol 10/28/05

There are two items conspicuously missing from the front pages of the major newspapers and primetime network news programs.

One is coverage of the constitution ratification vote in Iraq and the other is the coverage of the million more rally held by Louis Farrakhan on the Mall in Washington this weekend.

For the major media to ignore the important election in Iraq this weekend to me is tantamount to negligence.

Here is a country which just a few short years ago was under the thumb of one of the most devious and cruel dictators in the history of the world and elections meant nothing more than affirming Saddam Hussein’s power over them.

Since when has an election where people take a chance on being killed to go to the polls not news? If there had been one U.S. soldier who had so much as pushed an Iraqi citizen you can bet your bottom peso that the Washington Post would have plastered it all over their front page.

Why is the U.S. media so afraid of the war in Iraq bearing fruit? It’s simple, in their blind hatred of George Bush they have a hard time admitting that anything he does has any merit and in doing so they deprive the public of learning the truth about what’s going on over there.

The New York Times had something like 40 front page stories about the Abu Grab prison incident which involved a handful of rogue soldiers. But when it comes to millions of people in Iraq having free elections it’s not worth any front-page space?

If you remember when Louis Farrakhan and the nation of Islam sponsored the million-man march at the Mall in Washington the Mall was busting at the seams. Ten years later it seems that they could only manage to draw about 100,000.

It certainly wasn’t because there was no star power involved. The event was graced by the likes of Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpeton and the man himself Louis Farrakhan.

Farrakhan says that they are filing a class action lawsuit against government agencies because of their handling of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. He claims that if the people on the rooftops had been white the response would have been much quicker.

And from what I can decipher from the conversion of some
black power leaders the nation of Islam intends to succeed from the union as it were, with their own minister of agriculture and so on.

If and when that happens I’m sure we will be inundated with news stories about it in every major newspaper in the country and
the TV networks will fall all over themselves to cover it. But don’t hold your breath.

I just wish that one of the networks and one of the large daily newspapers would give our troops in Iraq some credit.

They have made it possible for free elections in Iraq and they’ve done it in 125-degree weather, wearing 60 pounds of protective equipment, never knowing what was around the next corner or over the next hill and I think it’s high time for some of you people whose freedoms they protect to cover this war in truth an substance instead of agenda and sensationalism.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels