Posted on 11/19/2004 2:42:28 PM PST by WuzaDem
Are the media on our side? If so, why are they doing the bidding of a bunch of murderous thugs who enjoy lopping off innocent peoples’ heads?
We are once again getting the answer loud and clear: To the media, U.S. troops in Iraq are always wrong, and the enemies is usually shown, not as a terrorists, but a victims of unwarranted U.S. aggression.
Consider the firestorm that erupted when a young U.S. Marine, wounded the day before, was videotaped in the act of shooting a so-called insurgent who may or may not have been armed or booby trapped, waiting for a chance to blow Marines and himself to kingdom come.
That videotape, filmed by an embedded NBC photographer whose photos are prominently featured on an anti-war German website, has now replaced the Abu Ghraib pictures as proof of American brutality even though the film doesn’t begin to explain the circumstances behind the incident.
But that hasn’t prevented the media from showing the film over and over again without telling the other side of the story – that the situation could well have been one of kill-or-be-killed – as happened time and again to Marines during the battle for Fallujah.
NBC, the photographer’s employer, led the pack, broadcasting the controversial footage four times an hour for two days. And the rest of the media jumped aboard. Not one of them has bothered to explain what lay behind the incident.
• As of this writing, 40 United States Marines have died while cleaning out the terrorist havens in Fallujah.
• In a single week, Marines and Army units killed as many as 1,200 of the enemy and captured 1,000 more and did this despite forfeiting the element of surprise, so civilians could escape, according to The Star newspaper.
• Along with the Marine who shot the insurgent, his comrades over more than eight days have had to endure what the Star described as "some of the toughest infantry duty imaginable, house-to-house urban fighting against an enemy that neither wears a uniform nor obeys any normal rules of war." The newspaper cited this report from The Times of London describing how the insurgents fight: "In the south of Fallujah yesterday, U.S. Marines found the armless, legless body of a blonde woman, her throat slashed and her entrails cut out. Benjamin Finnell, a hospital apprentice with the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, said that she had been dead for a while, but at that location for only a day or two. The woman was wearing a blue dress; her face had been disfigured. It was unclear if the remains were the body of the Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan, 59, or of Teresa Borcz, 54, a Pole abducted two weeks ago. Both were married to Iraqis and held Iraqi citizenship; both were kidnapped in Baghdad last month."
While zeroing in on this incident, the media has largely ignored the grisly discoveries of so-called "slaughter houses" where the insurgents committed atrocities unheard of since the barbarian invasions of the West in 400 & 500 A.D.
• On Monday, 12 male corpses were found in two homes - six in a living room and another half-dozen in a bedroom - their bodies tangled together, stacked on each other.
• One of the execution rooms unearthed by the Marines - dubbed "the slaughterhouse" - was believed to have been used by Zarqawi's terror group to behead foreign hostages, including American businessman Nicholas Berg, whose body was found in early May, Marine Lt. Col. Patrick Malay told the Star.
Yet few networks or newspapers bothered to show photos of the Fallujah slaughter pens which graphically revealed the true nature of the enemy – they were all too busy showcasing the photo of the Marine engaged in what any fair-minded person would see as a fully justifiable action.
Whose side is the media on? Not ours.
If this kind of "news reporting" is not treason, or at least sedition, will someone explain exactly what it is? Consider: "the armless, legless body of a blonde woman, her throat slashed and her entrails cut out." This sounds as if we were dealing with a bunch of serial killers, so savage and heinous is it. Anyone for praising SK's?
Yet, the mainstream newsmedia in the USA mostly ignores this horror and focuses on the "brutality" of American soldiers. In WWII, the authorities would have shut these reporters down and thrown them in prison for this kind of gross bias! Think about it. They are consorting with enemies and their twisted, psychotic version of things!
These "reporters" are betraying their own country! They obviously care absolutely nothing for ordinary Americans. They only care about their own incrowd of RDDB's. They are willing to let us get out throats cut rather than tell the simple truth! Their twisted way of thinking will get us all killed. I've never seen anything like it.
These "news people" are abusing their Constitutional rights, yelling "fire" in a crowd, panicking the people, spreading false information, undermining the war effort, and confusing the American people about the most important war that this country has ever been plunged into.
Can this war be won with these Copperheads stabbing us in the back? I really question our ability to do this. The "embedded" reporters should be taken away from the battlefields so the soldiers can do their thankless jobs.
Think what's at stake here. This is not a game. The fate of civilization is at stake. Does anybody know or care what civilization is? Take a look at some photos of a landscape after a nuclear explosion. Make a list of all the thinks which are gone. That would be a long list, indeed. People, art, architecture, libraries, museums; literacy, poetry, painting, and sculpture. But one last thing, don't forget to count yourself and your loved ones and the "embedded reporters."
Explain please, for those us that don't know what that is
They can all go straight to hell!!
Spot on!
I agree about the 'drift' - with all the leftist channels, I'd rather have them be 'right,' and not 'fair and balanced.'
excellent article.
Oh, I know they were repealed...that's why I dated them.
Seems to me there's something in the current US Code, though. I guess I need to go looking...
My mistake.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in the infancy of this country, from 1798 - 1800. Link: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/alsedact.htm
The Alien Act stated:
"SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies."
The rest of the Acts followed along those lines. They have since been repealed.
bttt
The Media, has been against AMERICA since the mid sixties during the Viet Nam war. They did not give us honest coverage during Viet Nam and have workded to sabotage this nation ever since.
There will never again be a "combat" correspondent like Ernie Pyle, nor will there ever be a correspondent that the "troops" will ever fully trust.
bttt
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