If the media is going to show all these even-worse photos and videos of prisoner abuse, they should probably include the beheading too. Then again they didn't show the Daniel Pearl beheading either, which was only shown in America (I think) by the Boston Phoenix, which gave a long editorial justification for showing it on their website (and showing Pearl's disembodied head in the print edition). They should still be consistent, and stop pretending that they are worried about offending the audience when they print sadomasochistic photos of prisoner abuse.

In the comment discussion at that entry at "Oh, That Liberal Media," a couple of people have provided links to that video.

It is true that the Democratic Party's policies helped allow the horrific attacks of September 11th to occur, but VDH's arguments often have more holes in them than Swiss cheese. He should focus more on writing about immigration, where he's at least on the Right side of the issue.

What is it going to take to awaken the somnolent American people? Half our population does not realize that we are in a war to the death. I fear that it will take a bio-weapon hit or a dirty nuke to produce the will to win.

I can't imagine wanting to see that video. It is just too gruesome. I'll believe it without seeing it.

What is also amazing about this horribly barbaric murder is the lack of attention it is receiving from almost any of the liberal blogs out there. The same blogs that were so quick to jump on Bush about the prisoner abuse have failed to address this incident. Just like the liberal media out there, if it doesn't fit their anti-Bush agenda, it is not worth mentioning.

it amazes me that you guys still harp on that liberal media jive non-sense.

abc is owned by a for-profit corporation.
cbs is owned by by a for-profit corporation.
nbc is owned by a for-profit corporation.
fox is owned by a for-profit corporation.
cnn is owned by a for-profit corporation.
am talk radio is dominated by the right.

and while the democrats are bought and paid for by their special interests (some of which include corporations), we all know that the republicans are the party for for-profit corporations (check the campaign contributions and proposed legislation, rulemaking etc.).

for-profit corporations will sell anything that makes money (see infomercials, larry king, american idol, and other crap like that). once they figure out how to make the massacre of innocent civilians a money making venture, you can bet they will air it.

i thought the right was generally anti-conspiracy theory. the liberal media theory is tired, old, innaccurate and makes you guys sound paranoid.

dinesh, obviously a person with your beliefs would fail to see the double-standard used by the news media. Both television and print news.

double standard? try quadruple standard, or how about no standards at all? you think journalists have 2 independent, corroborated sources for each story. please. 'journalists' are very little more than some local weatherperson with a promotion.

here's a secret.... the media is not organized to inform you. you are a consumer of its product, and the products for which it advertises. why do you all hold on to some notion of 'standards'? it is infotainment, not information. keep surfing and watching the crap we call news. keep buying the crap they sell us. that is there reason for being.

and mike, please identify which liberal blogs are silent as to this tragedy. i'm actually yet to see a single blog, liberal or otherwise, which is silent on this subject.

Matthew Yglesias and Josh Marshall had posted nothing about the incident as of late this morning. Atrios and Kos mentioned it, didn't really address it and then blamed it on Bush and the neocons. Kevin Drum did mention it though and called it barbaric.

This is in stark contrast to the condemnation from the bloggers on the right (instapundit, NRO, and a number of others).

thanks for the blog sites mike.

The "liberal media" crap is tired and so thoroughly debunked by now that people who continue to spout it look ridiculous. Fox has the most pro-Republican, pro-Bush, anti-liberal bias and is winning the ratings war in most of its news offerings, meaning it is undeniably mainstream. If other mainstream media look liberal, it is only in comparison to Fox's right-wing slant.

By the way, does anyone here think Salon.com is liberal? I bet most of you do. I do. Yet as far as I know they are the ONLY news site to provide the video to its readers. Fox hasn't. So who's a liberal now?

I'm a liberal (I'm sure you've guessed) and I believe one of the defining traits of liberals is that they believe that knowledge = freedom and nearly always support the widespread availability of accurate information, whether it is a gut-wrenching video of an American being killed, a photo of a flag-draped coffing of a dead American soldier coming home, a photo of an Iraqi prisoner being tortured by US soldiers, or the Iraqi's cheering at the fall of the statue of Sadaam Hussein. It's the decidedly non-liberal Bush administration who wants to keep everything secret. They know that knowledge = power and they want to keep it for themselves.

Kennedy is acting very much in his family tradition...the tradition, not of his brothers, but of his father.