posted by sandy47 in TheWar. You can register to participate.

Bochco’s “Over There” is simply a call to ’support the troops’ and will do so by making the population intimate with a few chosen characters. Some; once they become loved, will die, probably in some underhanded, conniving manner at the hands of an evil terrorist/suicide bomber/Ay-rab raghead/Sand Nigger, and the population will hate foreigners a little bit more. Except in certain areas of the US where it would be impossible to hate foreigners more than they already do and where foreigners include people from out of state.

In reality, I don’t care if televison, your television, shows this kind of bushwa ’til cows rust, what irks me is that the Canadian ‘History Television’ has picked up the series for a fall debut and is giving it a big on-air trailer campaign. Revolting. Let’s hope it’s run is even shorter than that of “Threat Matrix” which was shown here in a run even more brief than it’s full 16 episodes by the Global network, which is as close as Canadian broadcasting gets to Faux.

That’s the word from Sandy in Canada but I’m amazed at the lack of commentary here in the States on the show. From the title, obviously chosen to recall the WWI song “Over There”, to the endless promos for the show, this is the Faux Television propaganda machine at work.

What’s interesting is that, like WWI and WWII, we are late in addressing the problem of terrorism. By the time those doughboys went marching off singing that song to “save” Europe the entire continent had been bathed in a bloody conflict for years. Same in WWII, we were the last in on that one too having to fight our own isolationists and supporters of Hitler’s Germany (prominent among them the Bush family and Henry Ford) to get there. It didn’t happen until after the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor. And now it took 9/11 to get us to even acknowledge terrorism, which this adminstration had been loudly pooh-poohing right up until that day in 2001, and rather than learn from the decades of experience of the rest of the world we just blundered on in thinking we could “fix” it with more death and destruction.

So the propaganda machine marches on and the contrasts between that and a man of conscience like Kevin Benderman, who dares speak the truth, could not be more stark.