Posted on 07/26/2007 8:41:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
Thank you for doing this! Great job! Sure wish I could participate, but like DollyCali says, these posts make me feel like I was there!
YOU ALL ROCK!!!!!!
God Bless the DC Chapter, our Troops and our Country!
BTTT
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Great job Albion!
Always good reading the thread to find out what else is going on with the other corners.
[Mr] T
Great work, people. Love seeing newbies stopping by. Hopefully Evan will put out something with a positive spin.
you know what I think? Well, I’m gonna tell ya anyway.
I think DC Chapter, and/or parents of the wounded, should contact the reporter who did the story on “how back the WR conditions are for our wounded.” Or, someone who really has sympathy for our military. Ask them to interview the wounded and their family about how they feel having those pinkos hanging outside their windows while they are trying to recoup. Hopefully, this would generate as much sympathy as the “how back the WR conditions are for our wounded” report did, which might go a long way in losing sympathy the pinkos.
That’s my 2 cents and I’m sticking to it. LOL
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You can say that again. Thanks for your post, Dolly!
Sure is a long way from the "other" Washington! We won't give up hope — you never know what might bring you this way...
Thank you for your kind thoughts!
Terrific report, Albion!
Hey Doc, are you losing weight, or working out?
5.56mm
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Thanks for the ping, report and pics. You guys are the real deal, working week in and week out. God bless all of you.
WE ARE FREE REPUBLIC AND WE LOVE OUR DC CHAPTER - DEAL WITH IT! LOL!!!!
Unfortunately, those articles were politically-motivated "hit pieces" to embarrass the Bush administration and make the soldiers seem disloyal and/or victims. The elite press corps is more interested in scandal and pleasing one another by vying for Pulitzers than in presenting what reasonable people would consider the "truth."
Finding anyone sympathetic to the military among the DC press corps... well, we've been out here for two and a half years and reporters have come from as far away as Japan, but no matter how many of us are here, we are ignored by the mainstream media. Only blogs and patriotic newsgroups keep our story out there.
One conservative online news source did a story in 2005 expressing disgust that the anti-war protesters were at WR. It was picked up by Limbaugh, Hannity and others in August, 2005. Later that year, there was one article in the Washington Post, but the Post's story made moral equivalence between our group and the protesters, who were defaming the wounded (pressure from Sean Hannity and from us has since made them change their signs to phony "we support the troops" sentiments).
During the uproar this past winter over conditions at WR, we once saw a CBS cameraman carefully angling to shoot the Walter Reed signpost in such a way that our entire FReep, MOABs, signs, flags, people and banners, one of which was attached directly to the side of the WR signpost, were not visible. A group of soldiers held a press conference to refute the bad publicity, but not a word made it into the newspapers.
That's your DC press corps for you.
It’s always a pleasure and honor to freep with the DC Chapter. You guys ROCK!
I am so grateful to all of you for what you do to support our troops.
Believe me, I believe you.
I’ve lived long enough to notice those things.
But, one can hope.
No, YOU ROCK, armymarinemom, and so do all your grown kids in the service of our country! Thank you so much for all that you do for the troops, as well as for the many ways that you support the DC Chapter!
Yes, the hippie generation is going to start retiring and dying out. Maybe some of the next journalists in line will get tired of hating America.
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