I’m also a Pattonphile. As you know, Drew Pearson was a real SOB who did everything he could to hurt General Patton.
The Forties also had its share of liberal sob sisters. Reporters from the NY Times and other wire services despised Patton and loved trying to trip him up at press conferences. That’s how the “Nazis are just like Republicans and Democrats” controversy came about which eventually got Patton fired from his beloved Third Army.