[Thumper1960]

The press didn't like Patton, the same way the press doesn't like the military or patriots: they fear the concept of "Men". Real Men, who'd defend their nation, firing a rifle round into the guts of an enemy soldier. Unlike a certain former pig White House resident who fired his "gun" into a lavatory sink.

[oyez]

into a lavatory sink. among other things.

That kind press at that time the would have never set a pencel to paper in the land of the Axis. Work camp material you know. Defenders of freedom, indeed.