When Nicholas Berg was beheaded by Zarqawi in Iraq, his father blamed the Bush administration and the media have enabled him. He is one of the more vocal anti-war activists out there.
His daughter does not believe the same things, however:
Some things are unforgivable. What Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his many accomplices did to my brother Nick is unforgivable. It was not an act of war; it was a cold-blooded, premeditated heinous crime. To call it anything else suggests that it is an acceptable act of war, an acceptable response to America's military action. It is not.
The world would be a better place if al-Zarqawi was no longer in it. He is pure evil. I don't think someone like him is capable of any human feeling anymore. The only way to keep people like him from harming thousands of other people is to eliminate them.
Before this happened, I did not comprehend the magnitude of his evil and of people like him. But to experience the heinousness of what he did to someone as good and as innocent as my brother has totally changed my perspective. I don't know how to respond in a humane way to such inhumane acts. I don't think a humane response is necessary.
What the media did to my family is also unforgivable. They made the worst week of my life infinitely worse. Decision-makers in the media need to make more humane decisions about what is a story and how they get it. Someone should have thought of a shocked, astounded and grieving family when they made those decisions. They spoke of their sympathy for us, but not once did they think the sympathetic thing to do would be to stop harassing us and allow us to grieve in peace.
Sara Berg
Virginia Beach, Va.
Update: Thanks to Bill at INDC Journal for linking to this. He interviewed Michael Berg last year.
Update 2: Welcome Tim Blair readers. Tim is my favorite blogger and I greatly appreciate the link. Thanks to him I know more about Australian politics and events than some Aussies do. Take some time and look around, I post on everything from politics to sports to music.
Saturday, May 14, 2005
A Devastating Indictment of the Media
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The media didn't forced Berg's father to disgrace himself and vilify Bush and ally himself with scum like ANSWERS. Berg's father is the toad in this case. He abused his son't murder to slander those who weren't responsible and give a backhand approval to the cutthroats who murdered Nick.
Michael Berg was grieving for his son. But what's the media's excuse?
Berg's father had not time to grieve, he was too busy showing off for a madia grateful to have a shill in its efforts to shut down the war on terror and release the Gitmo murderers.
Note that The Philadelphia Inquirer continues to display its perverse anti-Bush bias in its coverage. Last year they led the way on the Michael Berg coverage--his rants received nearly daily front page spots.
But when Sandra Berg adopts a different position, they very conveniently make sure they publish her letter in the SATURDAY paper --the least likely to be read!
If you think this is happenstance, here's just a couple of other Inquirer positioning choices from the past year:
1) Typically, Saturday's editorial page features a GUEST editorial cartoon. Often it's a nice break from the uninformed, knee-jerk leftist of local regular Tony Auth.. may even be a soft jab at someone on the left! But during the height of last year's election campaign, even that little sop was too much for them. Saturday's op-ed cartoons had to be as bad as, or worse than, Auth's. (Worst example was the slanderous attack on the Swift Boat Vets as lying drunkards at a bar...)
2) Even the Sunday COMICS page has been used. "Boondocks" vicious attacks on Bush have been a staple over the past few years (leaving Doonesbury in the dust). But in the heat of last summer, that wasn't enough -- the strip, already on the first page of the section, had to be moved to the TOP, just when its attacks were most virulent.
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