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Men, women, and children are dying by the dozens in Iraq, victims of car bombs, civil war, kidnapping, and outright religious genocide. But one blonde dies and another cuts her hair, and the whole thing just disappears from the news. Think Progress covers the atrocities, pointing out that when a SIXTH helicopter went down it went down in silence. And yes, if a helicopter comes down and nobody hears it, AMERICANS STILL DIE!!
From Think Progress:
References to Anna Nicole and Iraq on Cable Networks After 3PM ET:
NETWORK ANNA NICOLE IRAQ
CNN 141 27
FOX NEWS 112 33
MSNBC 170 24
Time Of Segments Devoted to Anna Nicole and Iraq on Broadcast Networks:
NETWORK ANNA NICOLE IRAQ
NBC 3:13 0:14
CBS 2:00 2:17
ABC 2:21 2:58
But perhaps the best line was from Falafel O'Reilly, mixing propaganda and sleaze:
It concerns how the left sees Americans killed in Iraq. But first, 39-year old Anna Nicole Smith dead in Florida.
And it just got worse with Britney and her haircut. Why, oh why, would anybody give the slightest bit of a damn about an over-the-hill teeny-bopper and her inevitable and utterly predictable slide into oblivion? Just how many fine people died, noticed only by their comrades, their wives, and the children who will never know him, while the most disgustingly voyeuristic nation in history tittered over somebody else's problems?