The Inquirer Slams LGF

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This is from todays Inquirer. This is from Charles' comments section (see comments #15 and 18 for example). Note that they do not mention that these are not the authors words, nor do they indicate that the comments are pretty much unregulated and not a part of the main site content:

The Baghdad shooting in which Giuliana Sgrena, a writer for Italy's Il Manifesto, was wounded and Nicola Calipari, an Italian military intelligence officer, was killed by U.S. personnel has prompted a great diversity of reaction and comment. From one corner of the blogosphere, here are excerpts, rough edges and all, from a string of exchanges at http://littlegreenfootballs.com.

In Iraq, the United States makes the rules and the Italian ally also must respect them.
Case closed.

Am I alone in not giving a... about someone who died while rushing an American checkpoint on the most dangerous road in Iraq?

I smell a bad acting job by the commie, one that led to someones death.

Clearly the Italians didn't want the US to know that they were negotiating with and ultimately paying millions of dollars to al Qaeda types, so they kept the whole thing a big secret. This caused them to behave in a very suspicious manner, as they zoomed down the road, and it all led directly to the incident. What else is there to this, other than post-incident fabricating?

new commandment: Thou shalt not play James Bond with the US Marines

If the guy was a soldier, doesn't the stupidity factor just explode exponentially, with the sympathy factor declining proportionately?! He should have known better than to rush a checkpoint! Then factor in how the left is using this incident in their propaganda campaign and I'm on the verge of saying "Too bad they didn't get Sgrena as well."

Yeah, it bothers me when the facts don't add up, the "victim" is anti-American, anti-war, and has an axe to grind, and the Italians pay between $10-14 million to terrorist, that will be used to build lots of IEDs and finance, not to mention encourage, more kidnappings.

Yeah, I guess I have a problem with a commie hag who uses the death of an Italian secret service agent who tried to save her worthless hide as the means by which to attack the US military. You got me.

I'm sorry the Italian Secret Service Agent was killed, but I'm glad none of our soldiers were hurt or wounded due to "miscommunication". As for the delirious loudmouth journalist, I hope she gets hit by a small piece of communist space debris from a defunkt U.S.S.R. satellite.

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I've been reading this rag for a long time, mostly because it's the only game in town. I've never seen the comments section of a blog cut and pasted. Will the Inquirer do the same with Koz' site? This to me is an MSM slap at the right-wing blogosphere.

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Update: I don't recall ever seeing a bloggers comments used in this way. I searched the Inquirer and it only goes back one week. A search of Google turned up more. Here is last weeks Verbatim section and here is one from February. None are from blogs that I can see. The Inquirer does run a section entitled Blog Cabin once a week, but they quote the writer, not the commenters.

Update: The Inquirer message board has a 24-hour waiting period for new users. Cowards.