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Oh hey, look! Former North Korean captives Laura Ling and Euna Lee have posted a thank-you video for all of you who helped get them released. You know, those of you who wrote to your congressperson, attended the many candlelight vigils, or joined the grassroots-ish Facebook page that helped press for their freedom.
It also doubles as a polite leave-us-alone request. Remember, they need time to recover from their presumably horrifying ordeal.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, if you recall, were arrested for briefly stepping over the North Korean border five months ago. The two journalists were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in the gulags, before former President Bill Clinton negotiated their release with the country's lunatic cult leader, Kim Jong II.
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You knew Current TV would find a way to leverage this for additional traffic.
Oh, how I teared up! It really took my mind off of domestic issues. At no point did I want to grab these two journalists, shake them and yell, "Hey, you know what's not a good place to go wandering around? North Fucking Korea!"
Maybe now we can send George Bush to Cuba to get the release of some of the people illegally abducted around the world and transferred there to be tortured!
I'm planning a hiking trip to the border of Afghanistan and Iraq; it's a great little hike this time of year. Besides, the Marin Headlands and Mount Tam are SO 1990.
I look forward to everyone writing letters to Obama, Clinton and Gore to get me released when I stray too far from either side of the border.
These two are shorter, retarded versions of Edward Murrow. I look forward to not purchasing their books or giving a shit about either of them ever again.
Has it actually been established they crossed the border into North Korea? Because every description of their whereabouts (including in the text intro to the linked video) keeps things vague...talking about how they were along/around the border, never confirming or denying that they were arrested on N. Korean soil.
they have admitted that they 'briefly' did or 'took a few steps' over.
That's interesting phrasing, which seems to more minimize than acknowledge that they crossed over. What does it mean to say that they "briefly" crossed over the border if they were arrested on N. Korean soil? That just means that they were arrested before they could spend more time in N. Korea.
I was and am still supportive of their release, but now there seem to be too many unanswered questions, from them or Mitch Koss who was with them at the time. It seems contrary to the mission of a journalist to avoid telling the truth.
To compare, the crew of the USS Pueblo retracted their "confessions" as soon as they walked across the border after their release.
those two can piss off now