BREAKING: Terrorist bombing outside Kabul airport

[DoctorP]

Fixed it for accuracy.

it was Trumps operation like it is his vaccine

Biden just pulled them out.

[Nanners]

I laugh every time Liberals bring up January 6th as if it was some sort of unprecedented attack of epic proportions. Talking about "our democracy was threatened"


That's why the people that have been arrested, the highest charge they've been convicted on has been Misdemeanor unlawful entry or trespassing.

I thought these people were terrorists??



But yeah, keep bringing up January 6th so we can keep laughing at you. You're so desperate to throw January 6th at us but ya'll just keep looking stupid.

How dare you laugh about jan 6th... dont you know that AOC could have been raped?

The unarmed guy with the horns would have overthrown our entire govt if that cop hadnt shot that unarmed woman

[Patrick Chewing]

I bow to my Democrat overlords. I will defend them to the death. I will deflect back to Trump. I am simp. Simp I am.

Fixed it for accuracy.

[Patrick Chewing]

How dare you laugh about jan 6th... dont you know that AOC could have been raped?

The unarmed guy with the horns would have overthrown our entire govt if that cop hadnt shot that unarmed woman

Would it have been like a remote rape? Or a Zoom rape? Seeing as how she wasn't even in the building.

[DoctorP]

Fixed it for accuracy.

Dems dont get a free pass. That's for sure.

[Nanners]

Would it have been like a remote rape? Or a Zoom rape? Seeing as how she wasn't even in the building.

Its a mind rape... which is still highly traumatic - just ask RRR3 'they' is a victim on a weekly basis

[Patrick Chewing]

Its a mind rape... which is still highly traumatic - just ask RRR3 'they' is a victim on a weekly basis

Ahh yes, plenty here on ISH suffer from mind rapes on a daily basis. It's really sad all around.

[diamenz]

Three major networks devoted a full five minutes to Afghanistan in 2020

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/20...istan-in-2020/

If the U.S. government was caught up short by the dramatic denouement of its 20-year war in Afghanistan, viewers of the three major networks must have been taken entirely by surprise.

Out of a combined 14,000-plus minutes of the national evening news broadcast on CBS, ABC, and NBC last year, a grand total of five minutes were devoted to Afghanistan, according to Andrew Tyndall, editor of the authoritative Tyndall Report, which has monitored and coded the networks’ nightly news each weekday since 1988.

Those five minutes, which covered the February 2020 Doha agreement between the United States and the Taliban, marked a 19-year low for Afghanistan coverage on the three networks’ newscasts. They compared to a high of 940 minutes the networks devoted to Afghanistan in 2001, all of it following 9/11 and the subsequent U.S. intervention, as shown below.

While the pathetic amount of coverage of the conflict last year can be partially explained by the virtually total dominance of the news agenda by the COVID-19 pandemic, the three networks devoted a total of only 362 minutes to Afghanistan in the preceding five years, or just two hours of coverage per network, or an average of only 24 minutes per network per year.

“The network nightly newscasts have not been on a war footing in their coverage of Afghanistan since 2014,” Tyndall wrote on his blog Thursday, referring to the last year of the surge of troops initiated by Obama in his first term). “For the last seven years they have treated the role of the military there as an afterthought, essentially a routine exercise in training and support, generating little excitement, no noticeable jeopardy and few headlines.”

Indeed, as much as the networks and other mainstream media are currently focused on the fate of Afghans who worked with the U.S. and allied forces and may now be trying to flee the country, very little of the network coverage over the past 20 years addressed the plight of Afghan soldiers and civilians compared to that accorded to U.S. soldiers. In an interview with Responsible Statecraft, Tyndall estimated that 95 percent of network coverage of the fighting itself after 2002 was devoted to the U.S. role.

While the cable news networks often receive more attention, and more Americans use the internet to seek information about world events, the three evening network news shows collectively remain the single most important source of international news in the United States.

On weekday evenings, an average of about 20 million U.S. households tune in to national news on CBS, ABC, or NBC — roughly four times the number of households who rely on the major cable stations — Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN —for their news (as opposed to commentary) during prime time. Roughly two million more people are estimated to watch the network news via the internet, according to Tyndall.

Moreover, what appears on the national networks often contributes heavily to the overall news agenda for other U.S. media organizations. “Because network news shows are the most mainstream of the mainstream media,” Tyndall noted, “they can be used as a proxy for the news judgment of mainstream media more generally.”

Except for the 1991 Gulf War, the post-9/11 Afghan and Iraq invasions and occupations, followed by the George W. Bush’s “Surge” of troops in Iraq in 2007, and Obama’s “Surge” in Afghanistan in his first term, foreign news has generally been in decline as the networks, as well as newspapers (many of which have folded due to sharp declines in advertising revenue), have closed bureaus to cut costs. In 2018, network coverage from overseas fell to the lowest point since at least 1988 (1,092 minutes out of a total of 14,354 minutes of newscasts). 2019 saw a slight uptick, but then, overwhelmed by COVID-related news, the networks hit rock bottom in news from abroad at 720 minutes — or five percent of all evening network news coverage –in 2020 of which that five minutes of Afghanistan coverage constituted 0.7 percent.

In that respect, the decline in coverage of Afghanistan tracked a much broader trend of network and mainstream media coverage of — or disinterest in— the world outside the United States.

According to Tyndall, network news coverage of Afghanistan has gone through four phases. The first, when coverage was heaviest, was the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the subsequent U.S. and allied invasion. “Phase Two, stretching from 2003 through 2008,” Tyndall wrote on his blog, “saw Afghanistan presented as a sideshow, overwhelmed by the larger and deadlier invasion of Iraq.” The third phase covered Obama’s surge (to a high of 100,000 U.S. troops in-country) from 2009 to 2014, followed by the fourth phase when the networks withdrew its coverage as the Pentagon drew down the U.S. military presence.

The ebb and flow of the coverage over the 20 years clearly corresponded to the ebb and flow of the U.S. troop presence, a fact that reflects how sharply focused were the networks on the role of the U.S. military in the fighting. That virtually exclusive focus inevitably affected the ability of the networks — and their viewers — to understand the domestic – that is, Afghan — dynamics of the conflict. Dynamics such as the massive corruption and consequent hollowness of the state apparatus established and supported by Washington, the human rights abuses committed by Afghan security forces and allied militias, and the sources of the Taliban’s political support, among other factors that ultimately proved decisive in the events of the past few weeks.

These issues weren’t completely ignored by the networks, according to Tyndall who noted that they ran occasional “sidebars” about internal Afghani politics, culture, education, women’s rights, and the drug trade, but the time devoted to these stories constituted a fraction of that dedicated to the violence and war, particularly as it involved U.S. ground forces.

When ground forces were withdrawn, the networks lost interest, permitting the Pentagon to conduct an air war that drew little notice (much as it has done elsewhere). “For the American networks, ‘war’ means troops on the ground in harm’s way, not use of lethal force remotely by the Pentagon,” Tyndall told Responsible Statecraft.

Tyndall noted ironically that the event on which the meager five minutes of network attention were focused on Afghanistan last year — the Doha agreement — actually did offer a viewers a hint of what was to come, although the paucity of even that coverage still made it difficult to see the full implications. “If the Doha talks had been responsibly covered,” he said, “people would’ve understood that the powers that be in the U.S. believed that the leading political actor in Afghanistan was the Taliban, not the government.”

[SATAN]

You're so desperate to throw January 6th at us but ya'll just keep looking stupid.

Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer Says Inmates Threw Feces at Him in Jail

“My client, who is presumed innocent, has just gone through two months of hell where other people were throwing feces at him and urine at him and threatening his life in a horrible, horrible situation. Shame on us, Judge, that this is happening in our justice system.”

Today the far-right figure was released after pleading guilty to two out of six charges against him, in addition to agreeing to work with authorities to prosecute his fellow participants in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

In addition to Schaffer agreeing to help authorities prosecute other rioters, he's agreed to aid the U.S. government in its pursuit against far-right groups the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.

[Cleverness]

Three major networks devoted a full five minutes to Afghanistan in 2020

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/20...istan-in-2020/

[Patrick Chewing]

Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer Says Inmates Threw Feces at Him in Jail



Today the far-right figure was released after pleading guilty to two out of six charges against him, in addition to agreeing to work with authorities to prosecute his fellow participants in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

In addition to Schaffer agreeing to help authorities prosecute other rioters, he's agreed to aid the U.S. government in its pursuit against far-right groups the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.

WTF is Jon doing?? There are no Far-Right groups that pose any threat in this country. Even as we type, Far Left groups like ANTIFA are destroying cities and throwing bottles and rocks at civilians and police.

But yeah....let's worry about those Oath Keepers.....

[Lakers Legend#32]

Don't tell me you are worried about women in Afghanistan if you are not worried about women in Texas.