[anglian]

Welcome to the only thing sleazier than overbilling lawyers, overprescribing doctors shilling for pharamaceutical companies, greedy coporate executives, and used car salesmen: the American Journalist. Flawed and crooked and self-centered as the rest of us, but riding around on a high horse, pointing out everyone else's sins, but ignoring their own. This is the last great industry-wide scandal left uncovered in America. Because of course, they'd have to cover it themselves. And none of them have the bravery to take their own inventory, to list their own pathologically self-centered faults. They'd rather just go after yours. mine and those who disagree with them politically. (Pat Dollard)

[anglian]

Young Americans Trailer -The Pat Dollard Tapes http://www.patdollard.com/

[carumba]

I am speechless. The journalists are lazy fat slobs who don't bother finding out the the truth. If I wasn't a regular Freeper I wouldn't even know.

[MEG33]

Thank heavens I just woke up instead of getting ready for bed..Started reading and decided I need fresh coffee to continue.

[MEG33]

The odds of a journalist just happening to be at a street corner where insurgents launch a 5 minute small arms and rpg attack on the Government Center, are astronomical to the point of impossibility - there is nowhere to safely "just hang out there", to "just happen to be there" for such a brief, lightning attack. The only way to be there, filming, (and much footage of attacks against the Government Center from these two Michigan cross-streets, Central and Cinema, both of which are right next to each other, has been supplied to the American Media by "stringers" in league with insurgents) at such a precise time, is to know the attack is coming:
Of course.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

This guy lays out the real spirit of 666, the image of the beast, the false prophet, the heart of the wicked, better than just about any preacher I have ever heard. He is looking directly into the belly of the beast, and clearly understands its only purpose is chaos, death and destruction.

Who said there are no more heros in Hollywood. I know of at least one, and his name is Patrick Dollard.

[singfreedom]

This is a great portrayal of war. It is the kind of thing my husband, finally, discusses with me after leaving Vietnam nearly 40 years ago (for the last time). The description of the scene at the glass factory, after the suicide bomber, is both chilling and haunting. He draws a compelling word picture.

Mr. Dollard is correct, we, in our safe, comfy homes, will never, in our worst nightmares, be able to imagine such a scene. I am so pleased that Mr. Dollard is not afraid to NAME the complicitious media that victimize our military as they fight this war to protect us.

I, too, find it absolutely incomprehensible that our young military people should view American "reporters" as being on "the other side". This problem is one only we, sitting here in safety and comfort, can solve. WE are the ones who must hold these traitorous scumbags responsible for their false, manufactured stories.

Screw Christiane.

[proudmilitarymrs]

Bump for later

[philled]

This is probably the most important thing I've seen on FR (or, anywhere) related to Iraq and the GWOT. Thank you for posting this- it should be required reading. I am stunned by the lack of comments.

[PleaDeal]

Thanks for posting this! Pat Dollard is the real deal and has many friends in the Corps. I first heard of him thru WO Mike Fay's blog Fire and Ice and when a devildog praises a journalist's testicular fortitude, you just know he's someone to trust.

[anglian]

Truth bump!

[Irish Eyes]

WOW.. Thank you so much for posting this. I have now seen this thread for the first time and have it bookmarked. This is probably the best I have ever seen on Free Republic and that is saying a great deal.

I found this through a link you provided on another thread and only because I did a search for Iraq.

THIS IS A MUST READ !!

[Eagles6]

save

[zot]

Ping

[bray]

Wow a Real Reporter, thought they were extinct?? This guy is a True American.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[FlyVet]

It is very sad that our military has to respond to a journalist who supports us winning the war like a man dying of dehydration in the desert. It doesn't seem to me that it should be this way.

Amen.

[Irish Eyes]

BTTT

[PA Engineer]

The American Media are primarily Democrats, liberals, leftists -- choose the term yourself. But we all know what we're talking about. Don't get cute and waste my time arguing the point. The American Media, by and large, are trying to sway the next two elections to their team. The best way to do this is to damage the administration and the Republican Congress. The best way to do this is to convince the American people that Iraq is a failure. The best way to do that is to declare defeat and force a retreat. Normally, any winning political strategy is fair enough. But to employ a winning domestic political strategy without regard for the consequences to the American people, whose children will be slaughtered at the hands of ascendant Jihadists (among a series of other consequences) is not only wrong, but just plain evil.

The media have, by and large, allied with the Jihadists in the hope that the Jihadists' victory in Iraq will win their party the White House and Congress. The media simply cannot resist the temptation to test their power in the service of a domestic political agenda. The whole country is inflamed one way or another over this war. Only a drooling moron would argue that the members of the media are somehow exclusively immune to those passions.

It's all very simple. Christiane Amanpour, Cindy Sheehan, CNN, The New York Times, Michael Moore, Newsweek, CBS et. al. are now, in huge measure, directly responsible for the ongoing death toll of Americans in Iraq. Everyone here in Iraq, the Islamic world at large, and most especially the Jihadist Movement's leadership, follow the American media closely, in order to monitor the American people's headspace, primarily with regard to whether or not we will continue the fight on to the establishment of a successful democratic, capitalistic, and modernized society here, or whether we will run in self-imposed defeat. The morale of the International Jihad Movement is almost entirely dependent on the posture of the American media. Their strategies, indeed, are primarily determined by it as well.

Christiane and company give Al Qaeda and the Sunni insurgents hope, they stoke the financial and recruitment fires of the international Jihad Machine.

The American Media are Democratic Party operatives who make W.R. Hearst look like E.R. Murrow. They are killing our young, they are killing my friends, wounding my friends. They have ripped my flesh, spilled my blood, physically impaired me for life, and are doing the same to the Iraqi people. And they are going to cause more terrorist attacks at home. That is the ultimate problem.

Save and a BTTT.

[MrEdd]

Good story.

NUMP.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping. Some good reporting here.

[Chgogal]

Excellent Post!

Unbelievable, a former Hollywood executive who describes himself as a former Hollywood pimp, is doing a very interesting reporting job on Iraq. I am floored. This Mr. Dollard is "old Hollywood", the Hollywood with Swedish Steel balls. He's rooting for the Military, for the US and finally for the New Iraq.