Apparently there’s a new show on FX called “Over There”, about a small unit in Iraq. It is getting less than rave reviews from those who have actually been over there:
The grizzled leader of our heroes, Sgt. ‘Scream’, complains that they are stuck there holding the cordon so some stupid general 75 miles away can look good on TV. And so the soldiers hunker down for a 36 hour siege while the brass in Baghdad cow-tow to the Mainstream Media and negotiate with the terrorists.
In the real war, the commanders on the ground would have returned fire and shot the building full of holes before anyone watching Al Jazeera on the satellite in Baghdad could figure out what was going on.
In the real war, as evidenced by Fallujah and other cities, the mosque would have been shot up and probably destroyed. The following day, the media would be grilling the generals about how they killed an Al Jazeera reporter and destroyed a mosque. The media would complain loudly, the Arab media would scream bloody murder and the anti-war left would demand that Sgt. ‘Scream’ and the fire team be investigated for war crimes because they killed terrorists who were offering to surrender.
That is what would happen in the real war.
But ‘Over There’ is a Hollywood production being filmed in the Mojave Desert and in drama, and the heroes have to be right and vindicated. But showing the reality war and how the media operates in war is not what Hollywood wants.
Why am I not surprised? Hollywood not only gets it wrong, they get it wrong intentionally. Weasels.
Tags: bad TV, Iraq, media bias, war