Anyway, Michael Totten never fails to disappoint. I don’t know of any blogger more learned about Eastern Europe, and he writes like a storybook.

Totten isn’t learned about Eastern Europe or anywhere else. He’s a travel writer/reporter who simply shows up in a given place and reports his impressions or what hes been told. I’m not disputing anything in his article but c’mon learned? He’s just an observer reporting whatever he happens upon.

The moral of the story: If it’s not on TV at least ten times a week, it didn’t happen.

logis on August 21, 2008 at 3:17 PM

Isn’t it amazing? oppressedcommune might as well have said “I don’t see a link on Digg about the civilian casualties!”

Again, in every conflict we’ve been involved in, journalists were right there, snapping pictures every second. However, between the Georgians and the Russians, the journalists are either being killed, or being threatened or shot ON VIDEO.

Amazing that the video doesn’t make a difference to his paradigm.

Name me another war where there were massive civilian casualties with no pictures available.

According to the left, that would be Iraq.
MarkTheGreat on August 21, 2008 at 2:00 PM

Perfect example. In Iraq, there were, of course, many thousands of civilian casualties. But the Village Person didn’t have them shoved in front of his face every day on TV.

‘Cause if he did, then one of us “evil” conservatives would look up the setting and point out to him that the terrorists were the ones who slaughtered those individuals. And that would imply that there might be a REASON we’re fighting there.

So, instead, all he sees are pictures of American soldiers killed in Iraq for (as far as he is capable of imagining) absolutely no reason whatsoever. And, by an amazing coincidence, this happens to be precisely what the liberals and terrorists want him to see.

The moral of the story: If it’s not on TV at least ten times a week, it didn’t happen. Go ahead and laugh at the idiot all you want but remember, propaganda is like any other kind of advertising: if it didn’t work on a certain segment of the population, they wouldn’t spend millions of dollars on it.

Name me another war where there were massive civilian casualties with no pictures available.

According to the left, that would be Iraq.

I love his “Because I’m the only one correct” shpeal. Yes, because ignoring perfectly reasonable explanations as to why the Russians never loaded all the bodies in one place and allowed pictures to be taken…

Name me another war where there were massive civilian casualties with no pictures available.

you’re quite prolific at russian propaganda.

Quote something that I said that was borrowed from the Russian propaganda.

Because the intellectually dishonest little neo-bolshevik gets responses. Stop giving them to him.

Half of them are from you. Talk about intellectual honestly. And no pictures and no quotes, right? It’s amazing how your mother doesn’t kill herself having raised a kid who lies and feels no shame.

None of us sheep here are buying your agitprop, freevillage.

No pictures, no quotes? Moving on.

Darth Executor on August 21, 2008 at 10:48 AM

Oh, so you are one of the Americans who didn’t get a tax cut when the Bush Tax Cuts were enacted? You have volunteered to pay higher taxes to support the war? I suppose you are growing a victory garden and are rationing sugar too.

I am just curious – what sacrifices have you personally made for this current war?

King of the Britons on August 21, 2008 at 8:23 AM

Ever heard of taxes?

It’s incredible how history repeats itself to the letter and people are too stupid to do it differently this time:

We have the daring aggressor taking over other countries, we have the economic hardships(only the depression was worse, what’s our excuse?), we have an europe so allergic to war that there’s no amount of ass they’re not willing to kiss to prevent it. We have it all down to the americans who don’t want to interfere because it’s none of their business.

Don’t blame me when the sickle and hammer are flying over the white house.

None of us sheep here are buying your agitprop, freevillage.

And yet you continue to troll. Why?

pseudonominus on August 21, 2008 at 10:08 AM

Because the intellectually dishonest little neo-bolshevik gets responses. Stop giving them to him.

freevillage on August 21, 2008 at 10:06 AM

you’re quite prolific at russian propaganda.

“They’ve stolen everything. They’ve bombed everything. This is fascism, that’s what this is.”

Russian forces blocked the only land entrance to Georgia’s main port city on Thursday, a day before Russia promised to complete a troop pullout from its ex-Soviet neighbor.

“(The Russians) are making fun of the world,” he declared.

And yet you continue to troll. Why?

Is it in the teachings in Jeebus that you can lie when arguing with an infidel? I thought the concept was limited to fundamentalist Islam.

If someone was taking pictures of the innocents killed, they would most likely join the dead or at the very least they’d be taken prisoner and their camera destroyed.

Convenient. :)

Village-idiot-troll is a moron, of course, but in this case i too am convinced that this particular part of the monologue (about the Democracy) the was artificially scripted to fit the American ear. It’s too transparent.

:)) What would happen if you didn’t qualify your agreement with me and disagreement with the local sheep with ” he’s a moron, of course”? They would ban you from the site? I don’t think so.

Seeing as how I’m the only one who’s correct on this topic, the qualification isn’t particularly convincing. Don’t you think?

King of the Britons on August 21, 2008 at 8:23 AM

Then clearly he wasn’t referring to you.

Isn’t it funny how liberals will support any wealth transfer from America to Socialist countries – whether that’s to cure viruses Africans get from dirty needles or to underwrite China’s the carbon emissions from China’s 19th-Century economy: “No price can ever be too great when it comes to protecting our brethren Citizens Of Planet Earth. We have everything, and they have nothing. Ten trillion dollars? Heck, make it eleventy – who’s counting?”

But when a Socialist dictator seeks to expand his empire, all of a it’s: “Whoa there, big spender. America is teetering on the virge of bankruptcy. Screw those Godless foreign bastards!”

logis on August 21, 2008 at 8:12 AM

Are we on the verge of bankruptcy? Did we or did we not have to borrow the money from China in order to pay out the economic incentive checks? Wasn’t the last budget over a trillion dollars? Aren’t we already spending over $10 billion / month on the current war?

I am just curious – what sacrifices have you personally made for this current war? Served? Fought? Son or daughter, father or mother, brother or sister served or fought? I am not a liberal and I certainly do not support the spending of money by our government that is not authorized by the U.S. Consitution (making about 75% of its current spending unauthorized), but I also do not support getting into another war with money and troops we do not have.

Are the Republicans willing to raise taxes to pay for yet another pointless war, wise?
alphie on August 20, 2008 at 11:47 PM

I don’t think the people in this story would think their lives were pointless.
dominigan on August 21, 2008 at 7:57 AM

Isn’t it funny how liberals will support any wealth transfer from America to Socialist countries – whether that’s to cure viruses Africans get from dirty needles or to underwrite China’s the carbon emissions from China’s 19th-Century economy: “No price can ever be too great when it comes to protecting our brethren Citizens Of Planet Earth. We have everything, and they have nothing. Ten trillion dollars? Heck, make it eleventy – who’s counting?”

But when a Socialist dictator seeks to expand his empire, all of a it’s: “Whoa there, big spender. America is teetering on the virge of bankruptcy. Screw those Godless foreign bastards!”

If Totten were touring the Russian side with a government-supplied translator…would you question his “reporting?”

alphie on August 21, 2008 at 2:37 AM

Absolutely! When evaluating reporting, it’s always important to consider the sources! That’s why Totten goes to the refuges who are currently experiencing Russia’s ruthlessness. Are you actually advocating to trust a government-supplied translator… from Russia???? Comrade, your ideals are showing!

Are the Republicans willing to raise taxes to pay for yet another pointless war, wise?

alphie on August 20, 2008 at 11:47 PM

I don’t think the people in this story would think their lives were pointless.