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The media and the unhinged Marine
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ ^ | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 11/08/2005 8:50:16 PM PST by manny613

Former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey was the liberal media's dream come true: An anti-war Iraq veteran who came forward to publicly lambaste the Bush administration and accuse American troops of murdering innocent civilians.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cindysheehan; jimmymassey

1 posted on 11/08/2005 8:50:17 PM PST by manny613
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To: manny613
Harris noted in a television interview that Massey continues to sell books and DVDs that smear our troops. "[I]t's been profitable for Jimmy Massey to keep telling this lie," he said.

Massey only used his lie to sell books and DVDs. I know of someone who used pretty much exactly the same lie to get his sorry ^## into the United States Senate.

2 posted on 11/08/2005 9:10:06 PM PST by Steely Tom (Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
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To: Steely Tom
I know of someone who used pretty much exactly the same lie to get his sorry ^## into the United States Senate.

And he keeps getting returned, which is even more amazing to me - the US is filled with sheeple that only listen to the MSM for their daily intake of "news". This is why I fear the 2006 elections.

3 posted on 11/08/2005 9:13:39 PM PST by p23185 (Why isn't attempting to take down a sitting Pres & his Admin considered Sedition?)
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To: manny613

A real Marine needs to have a long "talk" with that pu**y!


4 posted on 11/08/2005 10:18:51 PM PST by MarineBrat (When it rains, New Orleans makes its own gravy.)
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To: manny613

God DAMN a traitorous Marine!!


5 posted on 11/08/2005 10:51:34 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: MarineBrat

Uh huh....

But heck, a former Army medic could probably do the job as well...


6 posted on 11/08/2005 10:52:41 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: manny613

Look for this guy to be marrying way above his station in life, and running for Congress or the Senate in about 15-20 years from now.

Who knows, he might be running for President some day, say 2040 or so.


7 posted on 11/09/2005 3:03:01 AM PST by alloysteel (Payback and reality may not be related, but they can both be a b*tch.)
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To: manny613
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Why Did the Press Swallow Massey's Stories

8 posted on 11/09/2005 3:09:40 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

BTTT.


9 posted on 11/09/2005 5:12:46 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: manny613

With "soldiers" (and NCO's especially) like this who needs Al Qaeda???


10 posted on 11/09/2005 6:52:44 AM PST by stm
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To: clee1

...or ANY traitor as far as I'm concerned. It is up to us to damn him and others of his ilk so let's get busy.


11 posted on 11/09/2005 7:53:13 AM PST by brushcop (We lift up our military serving in harm's way and pray for total victory and a safe return.)
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To: manny613; phatoldphart; MoochPooch; GOPCajunLady; 351 Cleveland; ajolympian2004; Dominick; ...

Malkin ping!

FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, this ping list!

12 posted on 11/10/2005 6:47:25 AM PST by cgk (Card-Carrying, Dues-Paying Member of the VCBC {Vast Conservative Base Conspiracy})
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To: manny613
From MichelleMalkin.com:

THE MEDIA AND THE UNHINGED MARINE
By Michelle Malkin   ·   November 09, 2005 08:52 AM

My latest column follows up on the lies of Jimmy Massey and his media enablers.

Doug Struck, the Washington Post reporter who covered Massey's bogus testimony at Army deserter Jeremy Hinzman's Canadian asylum hearing last year, has not responded to my e-mail inquiring about any follow-up.

USA Today reporter Rick Hampson, who wrote this March 2005 feature, did respond. Here's his e-mail:

I personally have no plans for a follow up. Our story was not so much about the veracity of Massey's claims -- few if any of those mentioned in the Post-Dispatch piece were in our story -- as the reaction in a small, patriotic town to its former Marine recruiter coming back as a war protester. (We also went into Massey's psychological history.) Certainly, he had a lot of critics/opponents/skeptics in town even back then. So I don't expect we'll revisit the subject.

David Holwerk, editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee, which published this interview with Massey last year by a freelance anti-war writer, told me he didn't know when or if the paper would respond to the Massey debunking.

All in all, the MSM's reaction has been a collective shrug. Not that anyone who remembers Giuliana Sgrena, Eason Jordan, Linda Foley, Newsweek's Korangate, etc., will be surprised.

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Jim Hoft is on Jimmy Massey's trail and notes that Massey is now attacking Harris.

Laer Pearce is still after AP:

Yesterday, I emailed Kathleen Carroll (kathleen.carroll@ap.org), AP's exec ed, and Jack Stokes (info@ap.org), its info officer, asking for an explanation. Neither has responded.

Christopher Fotos is watching the Washington Post.

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Previous:

From John Kerry to Jimmy Massey
Jimmy Massey: A slanderer and his MSM enablers
An anti-war smear artist exposed
Jeremy spoke in Canada today

13 posted on 11/10/2005 7:05:30 AM PST by cgk (Card-Carrying, Dues-Paying Member of the VCBC {Vast Conservative Base Conspiracy})
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To: manny613

It's said "once a Marine always a Marine", I propose dorkboy was never a true Marine.


14 posted on 11/10/2005 8:12:08 AM PST by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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To: wolf24

...Asian persuasion PING...


15 posted on 11/10/2005 9:23:43 AM PST by PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower
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To: manny613

This what you get when your hero is John F'n Kerry!


16 posted on 11/10/2005 1:06:32 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: alloysteel
Look for this guy to be marrying way above his station in life, and running for Congress or the Senate in about 15-20 years from now.

Not likely.


"JIMMY MASSEY (shown in the photo with his wife Jackie) lives in Waynesville, North Carolina, about 40 miles from me."

17 posted on 11/12/2005 4:47:20 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham
She certainly screams “Cheese-It®... 'git 'yer own box.”
18 posted on 11/12/2005 4:59:30 AM PST by johnny7 (“What now? Let me tell you what now.”)
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