MILLER: AP calls Bradley Manning a "she" and liberal media fall in line with PC agenda

The Washington Times ^ | Thursday, August 29, 2013 | Emily Miller

[Timber Rattler]

After being sentenced to 35 years at Leavenworth for betraying his country, Pvt. Bradley Manning said he wants to live as a woman. This reality show drama would normally be an asterisk in an embarrassing case for the American military.

The absurd request, however, will get mainstream recognition now that the Associated Press (AP) announced that all media who follow its vaulted guide should refer to the Wikileaks source as “her” and Bradley as “Chelsea.” The political correctness in journalism has hit an all-time low.

[Timber Rattler]

On Monday night, the AP sent an advisory to subscriber editors — which is essentially all professional journalists — that it would “henceforth use Pvt. Chelsea E. Manning and female pronouns for the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning, in accordance with her wishes to live as a woman.” The rationale was that reporters should use “the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of the opposite sex or present themselves in a way that does not correspond with their sex at birth.”

[SECURE AMERICA]

Manning is a mentally ill human being being used by the media to push the homofacist agenda.

[jimfree]

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[bert]

Well, maybe they’ll kill the bitch in prison.

[Chode]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My old AP Stylebook cries out...

[Venturer]

Put him in with Bubba and he can live as a woman all he likes. I am sure Bubba doesn’t mind referring to him as his wife.

[ImNotLying]

If I was in Manning’s position, I would do the same thing. He is going to get his dick cut off either way he goes. Better to be alive in a women’s prison I suppose. Ouch.

[major-pelham]

Isn’t this person (traitor) obviously Bradley Manning until a legal name change? Isn’t journalism supposed to be about the facts as known rather than wishes?

[Mannaggia l'America]

I could see this coming... last week on the McLaughlin Group, left winger Eleanor Rodham Clift called him “Chelsea Manning” during the discussion.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Chelsea Manning another victim of the Conservative War on Women!

[Freestate316]

Do a chromosome test and let the results settle it!

[Travis McGee]

Not long now.

[Mike Darancette]

It’s prisoner Manning.

[Chode]

nope... and i prepare a little more everyday

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

At this point, I am hoping that Private Manning does everyone a favor and hangs himself in his cell. Sure, the left would like it, because they could imagine him a “martyr” (to what?, cross gender traitors?)

But the rest of us would no longer be burdened with ever hearing his name again.

[Afterguard]

How about just calling him Convict?

[JayAr36]

I suggest we call it, “IT.”

[pluvmantelo]

What is a ‘vaulted guide’?