Pakistan's Interior Ministry: Bhutto Responsible For Her Own Death
I was watching Heidi again, on CNN, and they'd just broadcast The Pakistani Interior Ministry's account of Benazir Bhutto's death. Mind you, this is the same Interior Ministry, according to Husain Haqqadi, a spokesman for Bhutto's party, that "had been 'dismissive' of Ms. Bhutto’s requests for better security protection." The same “government officials [who] tried to blame the victim [and] told her she should not hold rallies.”
Their version of Ms. Bhutto's death says she died neither of gunshot wounds, nor shrapnel from the explosion, but from hitting her head on the edge of the moon-roof.
Heidi at CNN is very clever. Smart as a whip and doesn't overdo the rouge. She grasped the implications immediately. This means that Bhutto was not actually assassinated at all. It was her OWN FAULT, the clumsy old bat, for hitting her head trying to duck flying bullets and bomb blasts!
If she had only listened to officials of her opponent's government who told her to stop holding rallies, and even put her under house arrest for her own protection, this unfortunate accident never would have happened.
Of course Heidi's job is not to question what officials of Bhutto's opponent's government say. If they say it was her own fault then it was her own fault. But she did ask her correspondent on the ground what he thought the ramifications of the government's revelation about their main opponent's cause of death would be.
Because, obviously, if her opponent, who was projected to lose to her in elections less than two weeks away, says she wasn't actually technically assassinated but if she had been it would have been by al-Qaida who the government says sent an email congratulating someone or other on the assassination (that wasn't technically an assassination, since it was the victim's fault), an email the government, which is busy fighting terrorism (though occasionally a political opponent is an unfortunate victim of it), intercepted which provides "irrefutable evidence that Al-Qaeda, its networks and cohorts are trying to destabilise Pakistan," then that's, like, obviously, what happened.
I mean, obviously, right?


























Two days ago, all CNN was reporting on was the KILLER TIGER. They even had a news-you-can-use example of service journalism: What to do if you're attacked by a tiger (I had no choice but to listen; we were in a restaurant that, for some reason, had CNN on on a wide screen in the dining room).
Yesterday, we were watching Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room." Wolf is droning on and on about this Pakistan thing when he breaks for the latest news on THE TIGER ATTACK.
God, CNN sucks these days.
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