Disembedded: Marines Send War Photographer Marching Home

Editor & Publisher ^ | July 17, 2008 | Daryl Lang

[abb]

In case anyone was wondering on who's side the Drive-By Media was.

[abb]

ping

[villagerjoel]

“In case anyone was wondering on who’s side the Drive-By Media was.”

Ours? ...ha. ha ha. HA HA HA HaAA!!! *snort* heh. ..Sorry.

[wac3rd]

Murtha, too.

[hsalaw]

I hope he had to walk home from Iraq.

[NTHockey]

The media and lawyers - two things a Marine is better off without in combat. That is, unless they are in front of him.

I cannot imagine anything of less use than these ghouls. They disrespect the work and memory of Ernie Pyle, Joe Rosenthal and their comrades.

[abb]

Y’all need to see this one.

[rlmorel]

This guy is a liberal scumbag, pure and simple. I went to his website to take a look. As soon as the page loaded, I could tell.

The USMC made a grievous mistake in even allowing him to participate as an embed. Anyone who looks at his “work” can see in an instant where he is coming from.

He is there purely to push an agenda and make money. Period.

What is just as telling is his need to interject comments about the lexicon, prose or language used by the USMC in correspondence regarding his removal. When someone resorts to bitching about spelling, you know they don’t have a leg to stand on.

[winner3000]

Playing dumb again. The media again trying to recreate their Vietnam “success”. I hope they blacklist that bastard and prevent him from ever getting a decent military shot.

[Billthedrill]

Editor & Publisher is one of the very worst cases as far as bias, mendacity, and pure anti-Americanism go. Its frequent calls for an activist press to oppose U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere cheerfully and enthusiastically forfeit any pretense to any sort of journalistic objectivity. Anything printed in this rag ought to be treated with the same level of bitter humor as Pravda elicited in the Cold War days.

[the anti-liberal]

Zoriah sure ain't no Michael Yon.

[50sDad]

Zorah? Like “Cher”? Like “I am so famous and cool I only use my first name?”
Candy@$$. We are at WAR. Get used to it.

[Future Snake Eater]

"It's as if it's okay to take pictures of them handing lollipops to kids on the street and providing medical care, but photographing the actual war is unacceptable."

Yeah, it's all so unfair isn't it, Zohan? Word of advice: don't piss off the people whom you depend on for your immediate safety. You're lucky they were so gentlemanly about it.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The Marines should have dropped the litle creep in the Arabian Sea and told him to swim home.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Zoriah says he has been motivated over the past year by "dozens of e-mails from soldiers I've been embedded with and other soldiers from around the world, thanking me because they felt my images would help people understand what they went through."

Given the propensity and actual incidents of leftists LYING about these matters -- Mr. Miller would do well to show us the emails and some proof that the sender actually has the experience and/or military service -- no names but I suppose some specifics about experiences in a location or two would do. At least then real vets could judge.

Hmmm, "other soldiers from around the world" been thanking him. I bet I can guess who.

[csvset]

I didn't provide any information that had not already, as of the night of the attack, been published by Reuters, The New York Times and the Washington Post."

That's not helping your case any chump.

[Dick Vomer]

let's see... my brother is lying dead and a photographer wants an "after action shot".

I say let him back in.

funny thing is that a camera looks like a scoped weapon or an RPG sometimes.

I say let the fine man back in the unit. He might get to meet a tail rotor of a chopper, fall off a roof or heck, a tank might just roll over his hole out in the field....happens all the time.

I'm thinking that he just might look in the mirror in a couple of days and realize that the officers who booted him, saved his life.

[Armedanddangerous]

My daddy has always told me to never trust anyone with just one name.

[rlmorel]

No, he certainly is no Michael Yon.

Whether I agree or disagree with Michael Yon, the fact that he has the respect of the troops says something to me, and that gives him a good deal of credibility.

I would be interested to hear what the rank and file Marines have to say about this. The brass were certainly pissed.

[usmcobra]

The Marines did the right thing, a loose Photographer could get killed over there, by Al Qaeda even....