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Posted on 04/06/2026 4:42:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There’s nothing really new in the uproar surrounding the loss of a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle over Iran this past weekend. Media hysteria over the downing of a single U.S. aircraft has become a commonplace schtick in coverage of American wars over the past three decades.
During WW II, the U.S. lost over 23,000 planes in combat. I kid you not, playmates: 23,000+ – and that’s only combat losses. Overall losses, including accidents, amounted to 65,164. The media talking heads would have had to be carried out in straitjackets if they’d been active at the time.
Losses dropped sharply following WW II. In Korea, the USAF lost 147 shot down out of a total of 1,000+ losses. During the Vietnam War, 67 USAF planes were lost to North Vietnamese MiGs. The majority of the 1737 lost in combat were targeted by SAMs and anti-aircraft artillery.
Media acting out over relatively miniscule losses began in 1991 with the First Gulf War. On January 17, 1991, the opening night of the war, an F/A-18 piloted by Lt. Scott Speicher was shot down over Iraq, the war’s first fatality.
SNIP
As this piece is being drafted, word has come down that the WSO of the downed F-15 has been rescued by Special Forces troops after a dramatic battle with IRGC forces. A fine gift on this Easter morn.
Not that the Left, within the media or out, is going to appreciate it. That’s not what they want. They want American aircraft downed by the bushel. They want Navy ships ablaze in the Gulf. They want our troops captured, battered by mobs, and tortured. But if they can’t get that, they’ll do their best with the occasional aircraft downing.
We haven’t heard the last aircraft shootdown frenzy.
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They had to retract their story when it turned out that the Iranian citizens were pulling their vehicles into the road and turning them off to block the roads from being used by the IRGC searchers.
Our corrupt 'media' would have spent their time explaining how and why Hitler was winning...
“ The media talking heads would have had to be carried out in straitjackets if they’d been active at the time.”
Only if there had been a Republican in charge😎
13 dead in Afghanistan , Benghazi… crickets
The “media” is nothing but clueless America-hating bunch of Saturday Night Live slobs who leave “college” with many more unresolved mental issues than they went into college with.
Add to the above points, there are about 15+ military aircraft lost each year to peace-time training and maintenance issues.
"Trump's fault."
The news media remind me of the picture of Jane Fonda sitting at the controls of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, clapping, with grin and a wild look in her eyes, excited at US aircraft being shot down.
legacy media are communist color revolutionaries
can we stop calling them the media
they lie about everything all the time
“During WW II, the U.S. lost over 23,000 planes in combat. I kid you not, playmates: 23,000+”
When you’re producing 100 planes a day, you can survive a bit more attrition than when you’re lucky to produce 100 planes a year (and relying on your main enemy for materials and piece-parts).
This is why President Trump limited access to his White House.
I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something, something I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry
… Well, I could’a been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry
… Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
… Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em all around
… We got the bubble-headed bleach blonde who comes on at five
She can tell you ‘bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
… Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry
… You don’t really want to find out what’s going on
You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
… Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
“The “media” is nothing but clueless America-hating bunch of Saturday Night Live slobs who leave “college” with many more unresolved mental issues than they went into college with.”
Quote of the day, and highly accurate.
“Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.”
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., August 12, 1919
Heck, John McCain lost four planes all by himself.
We could fly in three old helicopters by remote control, make one have its engine run poorly, make it land, then have drones pick off people trying to capture a crew.
Controlling the media’s message is right out of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals - a 1971 book by American community activist and writer Saul Alinsky about how to successfully run a movement for change.
“13 dead in Afghanistan”
NPR said a deadly attack was likely beforehand.
Our corrupt ‘media’ would have spent their time explaining how and why Hitler was winning...
I think it should be noted that when the Third Reich and the Soviet Union had a non-aggression pact in place, the American left were strongly isolationist. Hey, maybe France and the UK were having trouble with Hitler’s military expansion, but that was not America’s problem!
But then Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, and good ol’ Uncle Joe was in trouble, and at that point, the American Left starting pushing FDR to do something. They didn’t see it as a war to save the world, or to save Europe, or to save the Jews. It was a war to save communism.
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