Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Hurin, honestly, maybe the news you see in Canada isn't as carbon copy from what we get down here as you think. I don't know. But for about 2 months, everyone and their brother was getting on television saying "Pat Tillman was no hero, he got killed because he wanted to play Rambo". You weren't here. You don't know.
Yes, I do know, because I get the same news as you. I watch mostly CNN. I listen to NPR and my favorite news program is the MacNeill/Lehrer news hour. I watch all the major US network news. I also get US local news from the inland Northwest. I get fox news programs and MSNBC.

Anyway, I agree with you that the Gonzalez article was full of shameful joy. There, we are in complete agreement, and that piece should deservedly be condemned.

On the other hand, a grad student writing in a college newspaper in Massachusetts can hardly be seen as a spokesman for The Left. I could find some pretty horrific stuff in the campus newspaper at Bob Jones University, but I don't cite it as proof that Bush wants to reunite church and state, throw all homosexuals in jail or end the feminist movement.

You are, moreover, misinterpreting the other articles you have cited: they do not contain shameful joy at Tillman's death, but sadness at the waste of American life Bush's misguided military campaigns have caused.

Saying that Tillman's death was a tragedy is not the same as rejoicing over it; in fact, it is the opposite.