Over There

If anyone reading this has fX, I highly suggest checking out their original series; "Over There". When I first heard of the idea of the show, I scoffed and said; "Yes, let's make money on the war in Iraq, good call." After watching last night's episode "Embedded", which guest starred Mark Paul Gosselar (yeah, the same guy from Saved by the Bell), I have serious doubts about the accuracy of the reporting on the war in Iraq. I wonder if the media is taking hours of footage, and splicing things together to stir up anti-American sentiments at home and abroad. Anyway, here's what happened that made me wonder, in the episode, the Gosselar guest stars as an embedded journalist, he does tons of interviews with the troops, and then goes out on a combat patrol. Anyway, the SAW gunner, a guy named Smoke, does an interview with the reporter and says; "I've got a license to kill." During a fire fight, a young kid runs out and throws rocks at the squad, and then his mother runs out to pull him back, one of the insurgents with a Soviet PKM guns them down. When the embedded reporter uploads his footage to his network, even though we know and we see that Smoke did NOT kill the kid and his mother, the clip is spliced together to look like Smoke did it, and they have the "license to kill" quote spliced in with the footage as well, which pisses off the Arab world, and pisses off people at home, oh, and when Smoke's mother sees it, she has a stroke. Yeah, and then the embedded reporter gets the shit kicked out of him by everyone in the squad, and then afterwards he explains that the network screwed him over and spliced it together to make it a story. I wonder if a lot of this stuff has been done to make a story. Remember when the Marine killed the wounded insurgent last year? They had an embedded reporter with that unit, and I wonder if some of the footage was spliced together to make a non-story a story. It wouldn't surprise me, it really wouldn't....anyway, if you get fX, check this show out. Wednesday night's at 10, re-runs air Saturdays at 10 and Sundays at 11.