[beachn4fun]

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

[Albion Wilde]

I think...contact the reporter who did the story on “how [bad] the WR conditions are for our wounded.” Or, someone who really has sympathy for our military. Ask ... the wounded... how they feel having those pinkos hanging outside their windows...which might go a long way in losing sympathy the pinkos.

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.

[Doctor Raoul]

The soldier at WR shortly after that story broke held their own press conference on the sidewalk outside the hospital defending WR. It didn't fit the media pre-conception, so it got almost zero coverage.

If it were a fair world, Dana Priestr would have lost her job for telling a lie.