sometimes it is not easy to say it as it is….

here is the problem in awarding this week’s “hey abbott award.” it may be going to two men who have just died.

two american broadcasting company employees, bob woodruff and his cameraman doug vogt were seriously wounded this past week in an attack and an explosion in iraq.

they were there covering the war for abc. they had no business being there.

thus far, the journalists who have covered that war have been far from impartial in their reporting. anyone who thinks they are there to protect the right of americans to know what is going on is very mistaken.

half the journalists in iraq think the war is great and some of them have even been paid hacks for the defense department. the other half are anti-bush and anti- war. each group makes their “impartial” reporting quite obvious.

the reporters who are there, claim they are in danger and are risking their lives for what they are doing. they may occasionally be in danger, but a good part of their time is spent in very well protected parts of baghdad or at the baghdad airport.

as for danger, the real people in danger are the soldiers who have the reporters in their midst. it is tough enough to have someone shooting at you. when you have a reporter and a cameraman who don’t have a clue as to how to be a soldier with you, it adds to the burden of the real soldiers.

the wounding of these two abc employees is a good case in point. once they were wounded, the soldiers that they were with were consumed with taking care of them, flying them out of the area and on to medical care.

the soldiers were in more danger because the civilians were there. how many soldiers have been killed and wounded in iraq because of the presence of reporters?

last but not least, in its reporting of the abc wounded, the broadcast company made it the lead story. when a solider is killed in iraq, his or her name appears on an inside page of a newspaper in the same size type as the real estate advertisements.

it would nice if the next time a 19 year old soldier is killed in iraq, abc would make a similar big deal out of it.

the disney company owns the american broadcasting company.

this is understandable because the news department of abc is filled with a bunch of high living expense account cartoon characters.

they don’t have the right to stand next to an american fighting man or woman, much less be in their midst during a war.