Saving Private Jessica Lynch. The Elizabeth Smart Story

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This sunday will be the battle of untrue DocuDramas.

NBC will air; Saving Private Jessica Lynch.

CBS will air; The Elizabeth Smart Story. Elizabeth herself wanted to play herself in this movie.

I just want to know; who is gonna watch this stuff??? I know i'm not!!! I'm not into watching stuff about people who's stories may not be true. :nono
 
It's all about the money...Jessica Lynch and Elizabeth Smart will now be loaded because of all the movie and book deals.

I wont be watching these movies either.

Randi (FreestyleGal)
 
I feel they were both publicity stunts to begin with.

I'm kidding, but I'm not going to waste my time watching this mierda.

I'd rather watch "The Restaurant" & "Queer Eye..." repeats and finish off a bottle of wine.

Maybe I will do that. :1popcorn
 
it's beyond me how the family to both of these girls allowed these peeps to make these movies. Supposedly Jessica lynch was sodomized while in the hospital, and Elizabeth,lord knows what that girl went through. I don'tthink this will help eith erof them in the long run.
 
I dont think it will help them either, Naya. But you can be sure that they are making a ton of money from all of this, and I hate to say it, but you can be sure that's a big reason why they do it.

Randi (FreestyleGal)
 
Jessica Lynch was on ABC Primetime with Diane Sawyer. She was talking about how she feels a little embarrised about all these stories about her rescue. She was not happy about the stuff in the book about her being raped and beaten in a Iraqi hospital. She's say's that all she remembers was she was and the rest of the troops with her was caputured.
 
well on sky new today this is an article they have up...it's like wtf who and what do you believe

US hero Private Jessica Lynch has slammed the American government for exaggerating the account of her 'rescue' from Iraqi captors.

The 20-year-old said "it hurt" for the Pentagon to make claims about the rescue operation that were not true.


And she said it was "wrong" for the US government to use her as a "symbol" for the war.

The outspoken criticism came during an interview on a US news network to promote her book I Am a Soldier Too.

"They used me as a way to symbolise all this stuff," she told the ABC network.

She continued: "It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about."

The slight blonde also said it was wrong for the American military to film the rescue.

The Pentagon initially produced a dramatic account of how Lynch was rescued.

It claimed she had been beaten and stabbed by her Iraqi captors.
I don't think it happened quite like that," Lynch told ABC.

Sceptics dismissed the original account as wartime propaganda and a BBC documentary alleged the 'rescue' had been staged.

She told ABC she was not involved in any shootout because her rifle had jammed.

Military officials later acknowledged that Lynch wasn't shot, but was hurt after her Humvee utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into another vehicle.

American media reported on Thursday that the book, which will be released in the US on Tuesday, would contain allegations that she was raped by Iraqis.

"Even just the thinking about that, that's too painful," she told ABC.

***but we all know the US government/Pentagon won't admit it was all just a fabrication
 
I have to admit I watched both of the movies last night...I was watching Elizabeth Smart movie in my room and recording " Saving Jessica Lynch" in my living room....so I'm quilty at watching..lol
I still don't understand why did Jessica Lynch get all the attention why din't Shana get her own movie etc...and why is Jessica a hero??...oh well I guess I will never understand...LOL
 
The Elizabeth Smarts was wierd. the lil girl had so many chances to talk 2 a cop and she didn't, donno about that
and the Jessica Lynch was good, but they really ain't show her, i don't even what to think of what that poor girl went through
but over all they were good
 
I took a glimpe sa t both shows. I still hated them. Jessica Lynch movie was more about a Iraqi lawyer that claims to have helped get Jessica rescued. I did focus more on the other POWs which was good.

That Elizabeth Smart movie was too wierd for me. I watched Britney Spears Behind The Music instead
 
i wasn't impressed with the Elizabeth Smart movie at all. i thought i would have learned something new from it, but it was all stuff we already knew from the news. i also thought it was weird that at the end when she was discovered, she looked over at her captors and said to the cop "are they gonna be okay?" WHAT?? who gives a sh*t about those maniacs who kidnapped her....i don't know, it was weird....

**MICHELLE**
 
DOES THIS REALLY SURPRISE ANYONE ?
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By Christine Phillip, BET.com Staff Writer

Posted October 24, 2003 -- Army Spec. Shoshana Johnson, the African American woman who was held prisoner of war in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, was looking forward to a quiet discharge from the Army in a few days.

Battle scarred and weary, she has said not a word as her fellow POW comrade in arms Jessica Lynch cashes in with book and movie deals and a celebrity status in the media.

But it is the Army that is forcing Johnson to break her peace.

A few days ago, military brass informed her that she would receive a 30 percent disability benefit for her injuries. Lynch, who is White, was discharged in August and will receive an 80 percent disability benefit.

The difference amounts to $600 or $700 a month in payments, and that is causing Johnson and her family to speak out. They are so troubled by what they see as a "double standard," that they have enlisted Rev. Jesse Jackson to help make their case to the news media.

Jackson, who plans to plead Johnson's cause with the White House, the Pentagon and members of Congress, says the payment smacks a double standard and racism.

"Here's a case of two women, same [unit], same war; everything about their service commitment and their risk is equal. . . . Yet there's an enormous contrast between how the military has handled these two cases," Jackson told The Washington Post.

Johnson's father, Claude Johnson, himself an Army veteran, says that while neither he nor his family begrudge Lynch her celebrity or disability payments, he believes that his daughter should get her due, and it is more than a 30 percent disability benefit.

For its part, the Army, in denying charges of double standard, said Friday that claims are awarded to soldiers according to their injuries.

Johnson, 30, the mother of a 3-year-old daughter, was held captive for 22 days, when her unit stumbled into an ambush in southern Iraq last March. Eleven soldiers were killed, and six, including Lynch and Johnson, were taken prisoners.

Johnson was shot in both legs and is still traumatized by her war experience. In addition to walking with a limp, she suffers from bouts of depression.
 
well in real life she did ask if her captors were gonna be ok
 
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