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caught between the excitement and the dread…
I hope he remains safe.
Exciting stuff! Need to tighten up that editing, though…
If you turn on your evening news, you can watch Iraq from the eyes of an “embedded reporter,” in the tradition of the personal media revolution, Rocketboom is simply cutting out the middle man.
While I can understand people’s concern about Jamie joining Rocketboom as a correspondent, I’m excited to see this develop. After all, the only information coming out of Iraq is propaganda of one flavor or another, at least Rocketboom’s dispatches will not be coming from an “embedded reporter” wearing a suit and tie, disguised as a trust-worthy journalist as he echoes the militaries talking points.
Instead, Rocketboom will feature an intelligent man in an Army uniform sharing stories that the Army deems appropriate for public consumption.
The difference? Even the most uninformed American knows that the stories coming from an active Army officer are bound to be biased. I wish the same could be said about reporters whose employers are multinational conglomerates with heavy investments in the defense industry.
Check out http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com for an Iraqi woman’s perspective. See also the links there.
this scared me. I kept waiting for the “for a limited time only, $19.95, call now”
words like ‘money, college, loans paid off, opportunity, enlist’
I felt like a hyena in the prescence of mufasa
Great to see a brave move like this on such an intelligent platform.
I firmly believe that most political diatribe is always coming from biased ignorant mouths, no matter which perspective. Like kevinsites, this guy can give us fresh and individual comments as well as the army viewpoint. He’s bound not to overtly break the party line, but then, no one on the anti war side is too keen to p*ss off their own side either.
We need more opportunities, not less, to expand knowledge and perspective, not blind narrow support of given points of view.
Let’s hope it promotes alot of reasoned argument, not ranting and raving. We need solutions, not postering.
go the rocketeers….
Why is Amanda staring into space instead of the camera? She obviously is not interacting in real time…funny yet awkward.
Not directly related to today’s report, just wanted to say that I’m now completely hooked on RocketBoom.
Keep up the good work guys.
It is only fair and fitting that there should be an Army correspondent providing stories stateside. Our public media presents an anti-war bias designed to embarrass us in the international community. To be well rounded you might want to consider asking someone from the American-Muslim community to provide feed as well. That would give viewers something to compare.
Thanks for having this up. I enjoyed it.
I agree with Adm6 on the looking off camera. But It would be a funny parody if everytime she’s supposed to be looking at Mr. Kever in realtime she’s looking in an entirely different direction or can’t find him in space or something.
I also think you should not do the fake hit the key on the keyboard thing (from other days). It’d be funnier if you twitched your nose like in Bewitched. The more real or absolutely absurd the better imo. but otherwise, everything is groovy.
no rocketboom before work?! how will i ever make it? i guess coffee will have to suffice, and i’ll boom with the rockets after lunchbreak!
Those training stories sound absolutely riveting.
amanda’s late. who’s the father?
Rocketboom: drop this idea RIGHT NOW. Those at the beginning of this thread have it right. An army propagandist “reporting” from this sick and immoral war is not going to help get the truth to the world any better than the sycophants of the mainstream media have. This is completely irresponsible of you and I will stop watching your otherwise interesting, if amateurish vlog, if I see this propagandist again.
And if you don’t think *ALL* ware is sick and immoral, you need to learn a few things about life and history:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6871483/site/newsweek/
Amen to that, Gus. Although I thing you meant “war” instead of “ware.” We aren’t out to get Black and Decker, are we? Or are we?
- ADCAW (Another Devout Christian Against War)
Walter clearly understands nothing about objective journalism if he thinks hiring an internal military propagandist is simply presenting another “opinion.”
Walter: I have no idea what you are talking about. Care to actually address the issue?
ok.. so i’m not sure where is stand on the propaganda/journalism debate.. i think we should see how it plays out… but guys.. can we try and tighten up/improve the interview s!! e.g. he said that one of his joining motives was going to iraq.. and then..(after a BIG) pause you asked him the same thing? i know these are put out quickly.. but so is all news!!
Wow, I never thought of going to Iraq and killing 100,000 people as an “opportunity”. Thanks for enlightening me on this fascinating viewpoint of the quagmire, I mean, the occupation. If you want to see some real stories from both sides of the frontlines, check out gnn’s new documentary “Battleground” on Showtime. I look forward to hearing what Specialist Kever has to say about Depleted Uranium.
“This will probably alienate most of the viewers, which flocked to Rocketboom for its underdog and subversive style.”
I thought this too but on the other hand surely those with the brains will be able to see through his propaganda?
I know Jamie Kever. That is, I know what Jamie Kever is. Open your eyes at iknowjamiekever.com