HT: MM
The liberals at CNN don't see Saddam as an evil dictator, because many liberals now believe that Iraq was better with Saddam and it is the US that is evil.
Bryan Preston sums up the tyrant's bloody resume. Mark Coffey draws on Thomas Jefferson.
Lots of readers are peeved by CNN's memorial tribute to Saddam. Reader Roger writes, "Did Gerald Ford get this much respect on CNN's home page?"
Reader Jake e-mails: "A very telling CNN screenshot on your post about Saddam's death...I noticed the page of "Family Photos" and had to browse them earlier...family snapshots of Saddam's. Where are the pictures of the tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of Saddam's victims and their families?!? [Update] As of 11:20pm EST, the "Family Photos" post is now removed from the page."
The New York Times, to its credit, does better: 
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Reporting on Saddam's death
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"The liberals at CNN don't see Saddam as an evil dictator". I don't understand your complaint here. There is nothing that I'm reading on the page you've posted or anywhere else on CNN that sympathizes or glorifies Saddam. Apparently you simply hate CNN so you make up stuff. Unless you want to show me the part where they praise him.
Is Iraq better off now than it was before the US invasion? Legitimately debatable. DEBATABLE.
I would argue that Iraq is worse off, the average Iraqi is worse off, and the middle east as a whole is worse off than before the invasion. This does not mean that Saddam was a man to be admired, praised, or whatever. He was what he was, a dictator who invaded neighboring countries and killed thousands of his own people.
What is it exactly you want? Do you want CNN to say "Saddam Hussein was an evil man?" I don't think it is up to CNN, Fox News or any other NEWS organization to label anyone "evil" in REPORTING news. Evil is not news, it is not an event. It is a judgement.
Let CNN report that Saddam is dead. Let you and me and Sean and Bill and Ann and Keith and Chris and any body who wishes to opine label Saddam "evil".
And by the way, if your are going to lift your material word for word including graphics from another site, you really should credit and/or link to that site (even if it IS Michelle Malkin's. God knows where she lifted it from.)
"focus on how jason smoked your ass again"
Well, it isn't that difficult when talking with beady-eyed liberal robots.
How would these liberal journalists today describe Buchenwald? Or Dachau? Or Auschwitz? In technical, bureaucratic terms? The liberal media would erase all reference of cruelty, terror, and extermination so we can be fair to the German point of view. It would read just like a cold report from a national socialist government bureaucrat, squarely in the tradition of Max Weber.
And what gets me is that the more sophisticated libs have the nerve to preach about Eichmann and the banality of evil.
Jason smoked nothing but maybe weed.
"Liberals think that the moral superiority of liberal democracy when compared to tyranny is debatable."
Which is better for the US, Jason? The extremely conservative, often brutal kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the democracy of Iran? Which is morally superior? What sort of "liberal democracy" do you expect to see in Iraq in the 21st century, Jason?
I know of nobody who matters who doesn't agree that Saddam was an evil man who did evil things. Jason again attempts to put words in other people's mouths. Words that they have never uttered or written.
It's hard to focus on what is important, game, because nothing in your post IS. Your post is pointless and it is a ripoff of a pointless post on somebody else's website.
What is Fox News byline? We report, you decide. I read Fox's obit of Saddam. The only appearance of the word "evil" is a quote by Saddam. So why is CNN so morally inferior to Fox News?
Just to make sure you understand what I do here, Jim, is get stories out that I feel are interesting and think others should read. I often pick stories that I hope others will comment on...
There are definately times I simply copy a story off another web site with little of my own comments (I have some comments of my own here, but only two sentenes)
Sometimes I just want the story on my page, either i don't have time to write more or I simply want to see what others say...
Most poeple just put a word or two and a link...which is exactly the same thing as my pasting some actual sentences.
I write this blog for people like me...who CAN read a lot if they click on links, but can get the jist of the story by reading my blog.
I do not usually have time to read every story that interests me word for word, so the way I set up my blog is the way I like to see blogs set up. Jay sometimes writes interesting stories, but I don't have time or don't care to read for 15 minutes to get to his point...
So you can focus on the fact I forgot to add Malkins link, but why do you do it?
Your blog is written on about once a year, so you obviously don't have what it takes to keep it up.
So you are trying to do what all liberals do, insult to discredit something you don't like...
It takes little effort to mention that your material comes from Michelle Malkin. You could even add it now.
I'd write more on my blog, but this one is so target rich for comment I don't have as much time. :-)
"what all liberals do, insult to discredit something you don't like"
The pot calling the kettle black.
I did add the credit right away...
HT:MM? I see that does link to Malkin. What does the "code" mean?
Jim, this is another example of the right writing the news before it happens, verifying their own mind sets..for example look at this comment from PCD from BEFORE the execution...Watch for bleeding heart Democrats to follow Ramsey Clark's lead and protest Saddam getting the reward Saddam richly earned. ...
I watched a few snips of fox news tonight(all I could stand) and on every program they were leading with how the sad liberals were upset over Saddams death.
A lie, the protesters are mostly Saddams allies in Iraq and other Sunnis. Some in America have questioned the process but not the guilt or deservability of his fate.
It is more cartoon liberal and they have a preconcieved notion of how things are. Nothing will change that. They are quickly moving to a fringe postion on most issues but they still think they are like most Americans because Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity,greatest American, say so.
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