Jill Carroll shows the extreme wrong-wing: they spoke too soon!

So in case you’ve been living either under a rock, or down in a submarine, you know by now that Jill Carroll, reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, has been released from her hostage ordeal. Yet it didn’t take the untasteful likes of the Imus Crew, specifically Bernard McGuirk, to make some comments without Ms. Carroll getting a chance to get back to her family and make an appropriate statement of the facts.  See http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/30/imus-carroll/


We know that any individual held in captivity will break under pressure to do things and say things that they wouldn’t normally do. There are plenty of examples of American Servicemembers who have been POWs, who have endured the extremes of what one human being will do to another with malice.


Brian Ross of ABCNews related in one of his recent podcasts that he had been a hostage in South America about 20 years ago, and he is lucky to have escaped. While Ms. Carroll may have a desire to see the innocent population of Iraq come back alive by telling the people’s story, I would be highly surprised if she will campaign for the people who kidnapped her, and killed her translator. Her statement, made through the CSM only reaffirms this is the case.


Those quick to condemn a person for their had work in an unbelieveably dangerous work environment should take a step back and apologize for getting it wrong!


Jake Tapper was in Iraq not too long ago, and has seen the effects of trying to tell the story of the people. It’s not an easy task. This administration wants those human interest stories told, and it is this administrations own attack dogs who are doing the most damage to ensure those stories are never told.


Let’s get real! When Imus and O’Really decide to broadcast live and direct from their new studies in the greenzone, then we can start to take ‘em seriously.


http://www.csmonitor.com/earlyed/early_world040106.htm

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