I woke up this morning to a somewhat beautiful sunrise with a light wisping of clouds in the sky.
I turned on the local news to see the jet landing at Burbank Airport (Bob Hope Airport, really) with the two reporters that were recently jailed in North Korea. On board also was President Bill Clinton who negotiated the release of these two reporters.
The plane is taken into the hangar and the crowd of family and some press are located inside to record the moment with family and friends. Former Vice President Al Gore is also there as a co-owner of the news service that these two reporters worked for when they were captured. It was a real Capraesque moment as the two reporters alighted from the plane into the loving arms of their family and friends. It really was a wonderful moment even for a hardened conservative Republican like me; I misted up a bit especially when the one reporter hugged her child. I wondered how often she wondered if she would ever see her family again and especially that little gift of life that she had waiting at home.
It really was a grand scene and Al Gore was ever present on the camera and hugging the reporters and it really was a good time.
So what is my question? Who are the numbskulls that sent two female reporters to China to report on the North Korean psyche when it is already well know that it is in the dumper under the current regime? Who perpetrated this fiasco not only on these reporters but their families and the American people at large?
Now, being a little older guy; I can honestly say that I remember reporters in Vietnam, and have seen them on TV in Iraq and other war zones, embedded into the fighting units. I understand the importance of that duty and I honor the likes of David Bloom, Bob Woodward, Clete Roberts and the others that have put their lives in harms way to report the battle to the people at home.
But come on now…two women sent to China who eventually end up in North Korea tried for spying and sentenced to 14 years at hard labor seems like a circus stunt for publicity and a dangerous one at that.
Any half-read bumpkin knows that all Americans should stay away from North Korea. All this did was provide them with a publicity forum for the next 6 months and almost got these reporters killed. If you think they would have survived 14 years at hard labor in North Korea then you are a bigger rube than most. Their prison sentence was a death sentence without having to use the term “Capital Punishiment”.
There should be some hard questioning of Al Gore and his cohorts for creating a potentially sad event in these reporter’s lives and for their families as well.
But the current mood of the media today and the love fest of the liberal element in all facets of our lives shows me that only the celebration will be shown and no “hard” questions asked.
In closing, I do thank the administration and especially President Bill Clinton for the work he did in securing the release of these two reporters.
I can only hope that we have learned a lesson here…stay away from the Big Bad Wolf.
I turned on the local news to see the jet landing at Burbank Airport (Bob Hope Airport, really) with the two reporters that were recently jailed in North Korea. On board also was President Bill Clinton who negotiated the release of these two reporters.
The plane is taken into the hangar and the crowd of family and some press are located inside to record the moment with family and friends. Former Vice President Al Gore is also there as a co-owner of the news service that these two reporters worked for when they were captured. It was a real Capraesque moment as the two reporters alighted from the plane into the loving arms of their family and friends. It really was a wonderful moment even for a hardened conservative Republican like me; I misted up a bit especially when the one reporter hugged her child. I wondered how often she wondered if she would ever see her family again and especially that little gift of life that she had waiting at home.
It really was a grand scene and Al Gore was ever present on the camera and hugging the reporters and it really was a good time.
So what is my question? Who are the numbskulls that sent two female reporters to China to report on the North Korean psyche when it is already well know that it is in the dumper under the current regime? Who perpetrated this fiasco not only on these reporters but their families and the American people at large?
Now, being a little older guy; I can honestly say that I remember reporters in Vietnam, and have seen them on TV in Iraq and other war zones, embedded into the fighting units. I understand the importance of that duty and I honor the likes of David Bloom, Bob Woodward, Clete Roberts and the others that have put their lives in harms way to report the battle to the people at home.
But come on now…two women sent to China who eventually end up in North Korea tried for spying and sentenced to 14 years at hard labor seems like a circus stunt for publicity and a dangerous one at that.
Any half-read bumpkin knows that all Americans should stay away from North Korea. All this did was provide them with a publicity forum for the next 6 months and almost got these reporters killed. If you think they would have survived 14 years at hard labor in North Korea then you are a bigger rube than most. Their prison sentence was a death sentence without having to use the term “Capital Punishiment”.
There should be some hard questioning of Al Gore and his cohorts for creating a potentially sad event in these reporter’s lives and for their families as well.
But the current mood of the media today and the love fest of the liberal element in all facets of our lives shows me that only the celebration will be shown and no “hard” questions asked.
In closing, I do thank the administration and especially President Bill Clinton for the work he did in securing the release of these two reporters.
I can only hope that we have learned a lesson here…stay away from the Big Bad Wolf.
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