[SandRat]

[BenLurkin]

"Seems folks back home have already run up the white flag."

Only the anti-American crowd -- and they started working for defeat from the very beginning.

[rlmorel]

I met a medic from the 82nd while i was filling my gas at a station in Massachusetts. He saw the back of my car, that looked like this (Without the cat)

And he came over to tell me how much he liked seeing this bumpersticker in Massachusetts. We talked for a while, he had been in Afghanistan, and he said he was shocked at the way things were being portrayed in the papers and television. He said is was nothing like the way they make it sound.

[hadit2here]

"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoe making and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poor house."
-- Mark Twain

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.
-- Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman

Seems nothing much has changed since ol' Mark's and Bill's times.

"Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence."
-- Kingsley Amis

I think Amis got it wrong. Laziness has just been added to the incometence, not supplanting it. The MSM have both in droves, and continue to display them daily.