Posted on 11/18/2004 8:56:13 AM PST by OHJ
After the election, I had hoped things would change. Sadly, the media continues to smugly undermine our troops in Iraq, attack the President and openly attempt to influence recruitment efforts for our armed services.
Of course you have heard about and perhaps even seen the incident caught on NBC film this week in Fallujah. The media is having a field day with this story, trying to paint the picture of a renegade, out of control US military running amok in Iraq. Although Cent Com has specifically said that they have removed the marine in question from the theater and are investigating the incident, the media is chomping at the bits for bad news from Iraq. The overwhelming success of Phantom Fury has taken the wind out of the sail of the insurgents, Al-Jazeera and even our own media. This week evening news 'bad news lead stories' were reduced to naming local casualties and hyping small scale uprisings in other cities. These actions were undertaken by insurgents in an attempt to shift the focus from the absolute route going on in Fallujah – the media obliged. Some of the footage shown on Fox News made it apparently clear to me that the rebels never had a chance in Fallujah. A majority of the 38 American dead resulted from false surrenders, booby trapped corpses and other unethical tactics. The media then has the nerve to portray the unfortunate Marine, having had a split second to react – one day after his platoon lost men to explosives rigged on dead insurgents, as an animal without any concern for international human rights. I do not claim to know what happened but until the investigation is complete, no one should pass judgment.
To top all this off, Chris 'Softballs' Mathews on MSNBC has the nerve to say that the insurgents aren't bad people, they just disagree with our way of doing things in Iraq. I am sorry… I must have heard that wrong. Nope – he said it. Has the media gone absolutely mad? Today we saw headlines splashed across papers and internet sites proclaiming that the Russians are developing new nuclear weapons in a response to the US missile shield. Sensationalism – the truth is that Moscow is actually looking to developing new delivery systems and our 20 missile interceptors would be no match for the thousands of intercontinental missiles already in the Russian arsenal. The truth is that Putin's remarks were meant for the domestic public and were designed to bolster the Russian image at home. Yet this was lost on the media, which saw an opportunity to spin the story into more anti-Bush headlines.
Lastly I would like to mention a few things about the insurgency in Iraq. The murder of humanitarian Margaret Hassan clearly exemplifies what we are dealing with here. Fundamentalist Muslims, claiming to be fighting a holy war for their great God, kidnapped and eventually shot a woman who had married an Iraqi, spoke fluent Arabic, had converted to Islam and dedicated 25 years of her life to helping the Iraqi people. To me, it shows that the insurgents don't understand. They do not get it and their message is warped. As a matter of fact I would like to argue that many of them don't even know what they are fighting for. This is the result of fanatical leaders instilling hatred and corrupting their followers to the point where 'rational' extremist behavior blurs with insanity. We have seen this before in Germany and other fanatical regimes. We are dealing with it in Iran and North Korea currently and the same situation is running rampant within Al-Qaeda. This is why we have to fight this enemy. This is why Iraq is the battle field today in the war against terror. This menace must be eradicated.
This enemy is an irrational entity, bent on killing for the sake of killing - A gathering of barbarians looking to spread their ways of chaos and destruction. Sadly, the media is giving them the attention they require and providing them with a platform by peddling their message to the masses – and the media is doing so with glee.
The ONLY SOLUTION to the CORRUPT U.S. MEDIA is for every AMERICAN to boycot all lieing media corporations till they die from bankruptsy. The ONLY LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND is MONEY.
The ONLY SOLUTION to the CORRUPT U.S. MEDIA is for every AMERICAN to boycot all lieing media corporations till they die from bankruptsy. The ONLY LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND is MONEY.
I started this during the Clinton campaign.
These media dogs need to start taking responsibility for their actions. Only then will they start thinking about reporting out of context.
Sites (to take the most recent example) knew what kind of reaction his little home movie would cause in the Arab/Muslim world, but media dogs don't have to take any responsibility. If he claims not to know what reactions to expect, he's too ignorant and stupid to be even a lowly reporter. There was a whole other story behind that video, and he conveniently left it behind while claiming to make "news" available to the public. Clearly he knew exactly what he was doing.
But there's no such thing as a traitor in the U.S. anymore. We're too afraid to touch freedom of speech. And, what are we afraid of? Being called names, and lawsuits brought in front of lefty judges. It's scary being an American.
Great article. Why was that photographer(reporter?) with our troops in the first place? I'd think by now the military(PR) would realize the anti-american bias most journalists have for the U.S., and our troops. For some insight into the media and what makes these creeps tick,i reccomend reading "Bias" by Bernard Golberg, and "Unholy Alliance" by Horowitz.IMHO both are very insightful.
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