A QUASI-apology
Last night I heard that Jill Carroll had recanted on everything she had said on video and that she did so due to fear for her life. We fully understand that. I blasted her for it and for THAT I DO apologize.
Now, there was a second interview where she was already free and was still wearing that fucking towel on her head in which pretty much repeated the litany of the video interview. Now on THAT one... I have my doubts.
Her explanation is that she was STILL under threat. Uh? From whom? Who was going to get to her?
Only after speaking with friends, family AND HER PUBLISHER did she recant on the whole anti-American pro-terrorist point of view.
Did she get a slap on the face reality check from those in the biz who told her:
"YOU'RE BLOWING YOUR CAREER WITH THIS CURTAIN ON YOUR HEAD AND THE PRO-TERRORIST SHIT" RECANT!
The truth is I don't know. She indeed may still have been in such state of panic, but I didn’t see that in the video taken AFTER her release. In fact she looked rather happy, and kept pulling down on that rag over her head with great care and affection.
Patty Hearst went through a similar situation and after her capture she was not all smiles and chatter but you could see in her eyes she was still scared shitless.
The truth is I do not know. That only Ms. Carroll REALLY knows.
I wholeheartedly believe the "while captured" interview was coerced, the one after the capture seem to be WAY too "from the heart"
So lady ... keep on making some bucks in journalism because your last statement divested you (to some people) of any shenanigans you may have been up to
As for me….; I still HALF apologize, and believe after you got released you THOUGHT you’d become a media darling by bashing the USA and that your boss brought some sense into your VERY confused pursue of your career.
Now, there was a second interview where she was already free and was still wearing that fucking towel on her head in which pretty much repeated the litany of the video interview. Now on THAT one... I have my doubts.
Her explanation is that she was STILL under threat. Uh? From whom? Who was going to get to her?
Only after speaking with friends, family AND HER PUBLISHER did she recant on the whole anti-American pro-terrorist point of view.
Did she get a slap on the face reality check from those in the biz who told her:
"YOU'RE BLOWING YOUR CAREER WITH THIS CURTAIN ON YOUR HEAD AND THE PRO-TERRORIST SHIT" RECANT!
The truth is I don't know. She indeed may still have been in such state of panic, but I didn’t see that in the video taken AFTER her release. In fact she looked rather happy, and kept pulling down on that rag over her head with great care and affection.
Patty Hearst went through a similar situation and after her capture she was not all smiles and chatter but you could see in her eyes she was still scared shitless.
The truth is I do not know. That only Ms. Carroll REALLY knows.
I wholeheartedly believe the "while captured" interview was coerced, the one after the capture seem to be WAY too "from the heart"
So lady ... keep on making some bucks in journalism because your last statement divested you (to some people) of any shenanigans you may have been up to
As for me….; I still HALF apologize, and believe after you got released you THOUGHT you’d become a media darling by bashing the USA and that your boss brought some sense into your VERY confused pursue of your career.
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The version of the story I heard was that her kidnappers released her at a TV station in the Sunni part of Iraq. She was not yet in friendly hands when she made the statements you are talking about.
Ah! full apologies then ;)
I talked to a military friend of mine and he was telling me about the instructions that the civilians have about saying whatever to get out of the grip of their captors unharmed.
It's pretty different from what a soldier is trained to do in case of capture or in case that he is shown on any media with propaganda purposes. The soldiers can actually convey a lot of information through signage and other means, and they are trained (in some cases) on how to deceive the enemy in those cases.
She was under duress, because she was released to some intermediaries with a pretty heavy hand who were there ready to chop of her head.
Talking about that... Do you guys know why the GIs shot the car in which the Italian (commie) journalist Giuliana Sgrena was traveling? The insurgents sent information saying that it was a suicide bomber car, so the GIs would kill everybody and botch the operation. The driver was not released after that, because he ignored all the warnings. They wanted a propaganda coup showing the GIs killing that journo and everybody else, but the good training of the soldiers reduced the lost of human life to a minimum. Too bad that the killed guy was actually an Italian officer of their special forces and not the freaking driver.
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