Squadron in Iraq gets FNC…
Saturday, the New York Times Alan Feuer wrote about the New York State Veteran Oral History Program and published four of the entries, one of which concerned FNC…
First Sgt. Kevin Lyons, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment
FOX NEWS
Finally some local Iraqis went across the Syrian border, and they were buying televisions and satellite dishes. So this squadron bought one — and Fox News! It was like the greatest thing. It was the biggest event we had in two months. They hooked up the satellite dish and there was Fox News. I’m sitting there in Iraq and we’d go up to the briefing room, and if we didn’t have anything to do we’d sit there for hours at a time. At night we stayed up late just to watch Fox News.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by jerziegrl — November 14, 2006 @ 12:24 pm
Good for them!
Comment by Noelle — November 14, 2006 @ 2:54 pm
Being a Foxfan, I am happy about this piece.
But whatever those brave young soldiers watch, without exception, is okay with me.
Resting there, they are safe for the moment.
Comment by cella — November 14, 2006 @ 8:39 pm
So the “best” in America, our men and women in the military in IRAQ are really tuned in: they too LOVE the BEST = FOX NEWS!!
Comment by Jean F. Tousignant — November 14, 2006 @ 9:59 pm
I salute These young troops. they are the most educated and intelligent military the world has ever known. They are the future of our country, ‘The United States of America’, the Greatest Nation the world has ever known. they will be the greatist leaders we have ever had. Sooner than we realize, the 60’s crowd and their way of thinking will be gone. History has a way of dealing with a nation. These young people are our future. God bless and protect them, each and every one.
Comment by Blogengeezer — November 14, 2006 @ 10:22 pm
They were so desperate to watch american tv they watch fox ‘news’. how boring it must be over there.
Comment by Stud — November 14, 2006 @ 11:06 pm
Too bad Fox(excepting a few individuals) isn’t what it used to be…
Comment by TBinSTL — November 14, 2006 @ 11:37 pm
“How boring it must be over there.” I notice your name is a four letter word.
What you obviously lack in intelligence, you more than make up for in stupidity.
Comment by cella — November 14, 2006 @ 11:58 pm
Actually these youg people are our PRESENT as well; and thank goodness for that! I know there are other troops in Iraq who already got FNC. Maybe it depends on what region of the country.
The birth of the satelite means the death of government controlled censorship worldwide, and that can only be a good thing for the future of our planet.
Note also that, in Iraq, before the war there were no cel phones. Now more than 90% of families have at least one cel phone. And that is seen by many Iraqies as important as running water and electricity (which many of them do not yet have 24/7).
Communication is, for this optimist, the one thing that makes freedom inevitable.
Comment by erljr — November 15, 2006 @ 4:09 am
I forgot to note in my posting above, that it was directed at poster number 6 - Stud.
Comment by cella — November 15, 2006 @ 4:31 am
I’m just thankful that they have another option besides the C aliphate N ews N etwork. Good for them!
Comment by spiffo — November 15, 2006 @ 1:30 pm
Spud, what a dumb idiotic thing to say. “How boring it must be over there”. Yeah, because IED’s, car bombs, and kidnappings are so mundane. Despite you opinion of Fox, how dare you minimize what they go through by calling it “boring”. Get off your a** and go there yourself. Oh wait, that would require a set.
Comment by jerziegrl — November 15, 2006 @ 2:51 pm
I mean STUD.
Comment by jerziegrl — November 15, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
Thank goodness for Fox News. If it weren’t for them, we wouldn’t be getting ALL the news, and the other outlets would still have total control of what they think we should see and hear. Troops, I hold you in my heart.
Comment by rightisright — November 15, 2006 @ 4:19 pm
Faux News! We distort. You Comply.
Fair and balanced my ass.
Comment by Gilbert Davila — November 16, 2006 @ 1:33 am
“We distort, you comply”
Because the millions that watch FNC all day are just too stupid to make their own decisions about the news so we all just “comply”.
I think it is really funny how any news not presented with the liberal “twist” that is our MSM is considered “Faux News” or what ever term the FNC haters choose to lable it.
Comment by jerziegrl — November 16, 2006 @ 12:40 pm
‘Blogengeezer’ NEVER made that statement about our troops being bored. ‘Mr Potato Head’, alias ‘Spud’ said that. Thank you ‘jerziegrl’ for the correction on his real name. I love it. http://daflikkers.blogspot.com/
Comment by Blogengezer — January 31, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Hey leave me out of this. Can’t you people read? It’s Stud, not Spud…
Comment by Spud — January 31, 2007 @ 2:01 pm