Calling E.D. Hll...calling E.D. Hill

I have decided that the answer to "why do they hate us" is..E.D. Hill...aka E.D. Doherty and a bunch of other names (she used to broadcast from Pittsburgh and was known as

In the US, we were so far in rural areas that local channels were fuzzy, so we had a satellite dish. And in the morning, while dressing, we would watch the antics of ED Hill and friends playing the Three Musketeers or the three stooges. You had the dumb weatherman, the dumb jock, and the ditzy blond.

So when Henry Kissenger was on to be interviewed, you would have some very piercing questions, and then at the end of the interview he would be asked who his favorite rock star was.

But the best part is that, unlike Katy Couric, they didn't take themselves seriously. They didn't pretend they were GOd's gift to mankind to find THE GREAT TRUTH. They mainly entertained, and sometimes you learned something important.

Now I live in the Philippines, and our local cable has CNN international, based in Hong Kong, which is essentially BBC lite, and an Asian news channel from Singapore (we also get Japanese news, but alas it is often in Japanese).

When the Pope died, I got so tired of Christienne Amanpour complaining about the Pope, and all the feminist ex nuns complaining about how terrible he was, that I watched the funeral on the Asian channel.

So after the London Bombing, CNNI was full of Arabs saying they were experts who explained it was all the evil bush/evil blair's fault for being in Iraq...all those civilians killed in Fallujah...blah blah blah...it's the Jews fault...blah blah...

And not once did the interviewer interrupt or ask even a softball question let alone a hard question.

One longed for the wide eyed ditzy E.D. to be there, pretending she was naive and really wanted to know, and ask a bombshell like: Well, why wasn't the "arab street" upset when Saddam killed 40 thousand in Basra? If terrorism was due to Iraq, why did the Bali bombers say they did it to revenge the Aussies helping East Timor? Or maybe even the bombshell of the week: Do you think the reason for the hatred is because the radicals in the mosques are preaching jihad? And that these radical Immans were trained by Saudi money?

Nope, can't have things put into perspective...

But maybe sometimes CNNI forgets the party line....the Beeb did: for a few days after the London bombing, they actually called the terrorists "terrorists"...how judgemental.

And yesterday, CNNI made the mistake of asking an Indian from the Asian Pacific Foundation to discuss the problem...and he put the London bombing as being similar to a recent homicide bombing in Kashmir...

Kashmir?

Ah, guess you didn't hear about that, or the dirty little fact that the country (outside Iraq) with the most people killed by terrorist bombings of civilians was....India.

India is the country with the second largest Muslim population in the world, and is afraid of the radical Immans from Pakistan and Saudi arabia igniting religious hatred between Muslims and Hindus.