Examples, please. I am unaware of anyone other than the liberal news and entertainment media, and the feminazis on DACOWITS who have used her to advance an agenda.
"These feminazis you so fervently fight against didn't materialize..."
Uh...Katie Commie, for one?
"...and the right that should have supported her, Freepers in particular, have been trashing her anyway, lest any woman in the military become respected."
Okay, I'll have to break this one down...
1) I don't know of anyone who's said she didn't do her duty. What many FReepers are upset about is how she's getting the SGT York treatment, when she did nothing other than get wounded and captured, then picked up at an unguarded hospital. Others, like Miller, went above and beyond the call of duty, and have not gotten nearly the recognition that Lynch has. Is that her fault? No...but by just smiling and quietly going along with the cult of personality that was built around her on false pretenses, she's giving her tacit approval to the lie.
2) Who doesn't want women in the Army to be respected? Just because I and any other American with a brain doesn't want women in combat arms MOSs, doesn't mean that we think women servicemembers shouldn't be respected. Really now...that's a helluva stretch.
"I have seen her badly used by the 'right' far more despicably than the Left."
By "the right", are you referring to talk radio, Fox News, WND, Newsmax, and other such center-right media, or just what you've read on FReep? I've not seen anything in the so-called "conservative" media that has trashed Lynch one bit. There have been calls for the truth to come out, calls for her to denounce the feminazi propoganda swirling around her story, etc. But I've not heard anywhere on "the right" where she's being called a coward, a shirker, or anything else that could reasonably be construed as "trashing" her.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Well, the news media ran stories about her. Yes, Fox as well as the liberal media. They were some of the most postive stories about the war effort we had in a couple of weeks of "bad news" and "quagmire". If the caveman contingent on FR wasn't so worried about girl-soldier getting some exaggerated good press, they might have noticed that she and her company, and the other POWs rescued were the first good news the media focused on regarding the war effort, and one that captured the attention of the country because there was a nice clean smiling face they could put up on the banner graphic. I for one was glad they did. The country needed good news.
And the media seemed to want to report it. But it stopped then, with the same short attention span of any other media hype, it died, for the most part. She was not picked up by the left for them to run with, because they are not interested in stories that might make the war effort look good. Nor do I think she would get on board their cause. Feminazis are not exactly behind what she was doing and they don't want her has a hero.
Jessica Lynch was on our side. America's side, in a war abroad. I never forgot that.
So the left didn't use her much, except her pretty smiling face, and they used nice glowing terms to talk about her. So what? Well, at the idea that a woman soldier was getting too much good press, a lot of FReepers behaved horribly. From blaming her for not giving enough information and intimate details of her treatment (eager listening for what it was like and what was done to her) Details that never would have been asked of a male POW. It embarrasses me still.
During that time my group of friends was sending packages to two different units abroad, one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq, and encouraging them to look us up at FR if they got a chance. I cringed thinking they might and find those threads.
There are heros as yet unsung in this war, there always are. I hope they get found, and their stories get heard. The face, the name, that captures the media's attention for a minute is not blessed by it so much as it is inflicted upon them, with the consequence of great scrutiny they never should have been subjected to. To those who think there are better heros to put up on the TV, great. Push for them. But to push for them at the destruction of Jessica Lynch is despicable.
Too bad conservatives here don't hold up to the standards of the fair and balanced media to a greater extent.