{"id":685,"date":"2004-05-13T03:54:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T10:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/05\/the_lookyloos_the_pentagon_the\/"},"modified":"2004-05-13T03:54:40","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T10:54:40","slug":"the_lookyloos_the_pentagon_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/05\/the_lookyloos_the_pentagon_the.html","title":{"rendered":"THE LOOKY-LOOS, THE PENTAGON, THE PIX"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN reports<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>: The
\nMalaysian company hosting “the al-Qaeda-linked Web site that first posted the video
\nof Nicholas Berg’s beheading shut down the site today “because it was drawing too much traffic.”
\nBy now, of course, the decapitatiion nightmare can be seen elsewhere on the
\nInternet.<\/P>
\n

In the meantime, the Defense Department is still deciding whether to let the general public see
\nthe Abu Ghraib photos that it screened privately for the Congress. The inclination to hold them
\nback strikes Jimmy Breslin as worse than dumb. <\/P>
\n

In a column headlined “The ultimate reality
\nshow,”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> he writes, “At that hour,” when the prison photos were being
\nscreened in a secret room in Washington, “people everywhere in the country were looking at an
\nAmerican being beheaded, in live action. And on Internet or television screens or on trains and
\nbuses where people held cell phones with video screens.<\/P>
\n

“The prison pictures they [the politicians] watched in such secrecy belong to the public whose
\ntaxes pay for this war. These utter fools in suits and uniforms, some smooth-faced liar from the
\nPentagon, or a general who should be in a grand jury himself, try to control the free speech of the
\nnation and commit a war crime. They also show complete ignorance of today’s life.”<\/P>
\n

Breslin wonders, too, how anybody can watch the TV reality shows,
\nwhich are programmed “in prime time for the Low IQ brigades, when real reality is good action
\nfootage of our team torturing Iraqis and their team decapitating an American?” That irony also
\nworks in
\nreverse<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN reports: The Malaysian company hosting “the al-Qaeda-linked Web site that first posted the video of Nicholas Berg’s beheading shut down the site today “because it was drawing too much traffic.” By now, of course, the decapitatiion nightmare can be seen elsewhere on the Internet. In the meantime, the Defense Department is still deciding whether to let the general public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-b3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}