Liberal Talk Radio

This is not about Brokeback Mountain, and neither is it really about the opportunity to jump on the bandwagon in asking why the so-called mainstream media is ignoring what seems to be a legitimate case of death-row moral ambiguity — a man who was sentenced to death for killing a police officer after cops raided his apartment unnanounced. This after the cops apparently had the wrong apartment. (I don’t want to sound like a dick, but where’s Jamie Foxx now?) (Parenthetical #2: I buy the speculation that people aren’t paying attention to this because it has to do with protecting your family with a weapon.)

No, getting on that bandwagon means that I don’t have to register my faux-anger against the most idiotically biased headline of the day — “U.S. Ranks Sixth Among Countries Jailing Journalists, Report Says” — this because the military locked up some of those maybe-half-legitimate Al-Jazeera cameramen who (allegedly) colluded with terrorists:

The United States has tied with Myanmar, the former Burma, for sixth place among countries that are holding the most journalists behind bars, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Each country is jailing five journalists. The United States is holding four Iraqi journalists in detention centers in Iraq and one Sudanese, a cameraman who works for Al Jazeera, at the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. None of the five have been charged with a specific crime.

Oh, please. Yes, the U.S. is just as bad as Myanmar, the former Burma. It’s exactly the same, isn’t it?