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Zell Miller: Iwo Jima, If Covered by Media Today
The Washington Times ^ | October 12, 2004 | Zell Miller

Posted on 10/11/2004 11:17:57 PM PDT by quidnunc

What if today's reporters had covered the Marines landing on Iwo Jima, a small island in the far away Pacific Ocean, in the same way they're covering the war in Iraq? Here's how it might have looked:

DAY 1

With the aid of satellite technology, Cutie Cudley interviews Marine Pfc. John Doe, who earlier came ashore with 30,000 other Marines.

Cutie: "John, we have been told by the administration that this island has great strategic importance because if you're successful, it could become a fueling stop for our bombers on the way to Japan. But, as you know, we can't be sure this is the truth. What do you think?"

Pfc. Doe: "Well, I've been pinned down by enemy fire almost ever since I got here and have had a couple of buddies killed right beside me. I'm a Marine and I go where they send me. One thing's for sure, they are putting up a fight not to give up this island."

Cutie: "Our military analysts tell us that the Japanese are holed up in caves and miles of connecting tunnels they've built over the years. How will you ever get them out?"

Pfc. Doe: "With flame throwers, ma'am."

Cutie (incredulously): "Flame throwers? You'll burn them alive?"

Pfc. Doe: "Yes ma'am, we'll fry their asses. Excuse me, I shouldn't have said that on TV."

Cutie (audible gasp): "How horrible!"

Pfc. Doe (obviously wanting to move on): "We're at war ma'am."

A Marine sergeant watching nearby yells, "Ask her what does she want us to do — sing to them, 'Come out, come out, wherever you are. Pretty please.' "

-snip-

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: handwringers; iwojima; liberalmedia; marines; mediabias; wwii; zellmiller
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To: Fracas
Zell served with Kerry in the Senate...imagine the stories he could tell....

Well, round the kiddies up as Grandpa Zell tells us how it really was back in the days when war heroes EARNED their medals, and congressmen showed up for work.

Seriously, I would LOVE to have a long Sunday lunch with this gentleman. His speech at the RNC was truly amazing...can you imagine the guy in person???

21 posted on 10/11/2004 11:45:12 PM PDT by andie74 (W stands for Women)
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To: blogbat

**Georgia**


22 posted on 10/11/2004 11:45:30 PM PDT by blogbat (Holding Out for 2008, but still voting in '04)
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To: Fracas

Probably already in the can waiting to air for the last-minute blitz.


23 posted on 10/11/2004 11:49:08 PM PDT by Liz (The man who establishes the reputation of rising at dawn, can sleep til noon.)
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To: DMZFrank

God bless you DMZFrank.


24 posted on 10/11/2004 11:49:43 PM PDT by CalmCorrectConservPatriotCCCP (Tragically, it is what it is)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

Ping


25 posted on 10/11/2004 11:51:58 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (We want hard, tough, seasoned leaders who will methodically destroy the people who would kill us.)
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To: andie74

I think it would be great to have a CD of his best speeches particularly for those who don't remember the generation of passionate conviction.


26 posted on 10/11/2004 11:54:53 PM PDT by blogbat (Holding Out for 2008, but still voting in '04)
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To: quidnunc
I'm sure many of us have had similar thoughts about how the MSM is using the WOT to influence this election in favor of their political party - the Democratic Party.

(VIDEO) Mike Wallace at World War II Memorial: "The Iraq War is not a noble enterprise."

To: O.C. - Old Cracker

If today's Main Stream Media had owned the newspapers and radio stations during WWII, America and our Allies would have been defeated.

29 posted on 09/19/2004 12:21:46 PM CDT by Eagle9

 

27 posted on 10/11/2004 11:58:12 PM PDT by Eagle9
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To: Liz

LOL. I've heard the same rumor.


28 posted on 10/11/2004 11:58:54 PM PDT by Fracas
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To: andie74

You chose the perfect word for Zell - 'gentleman'. That's why he's no longer a Dem.


29 posted on 10/12/2004 12:00:07 AM PDT by Fracas
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To: Jet Jaguar

The donks should have just kept their collective mouths shut and not messed with the man. Will they learn their lesson? Going from recent history, only when pigs have wings.


30 posted on 10/12/2004 12:00:13 AM PDT by Frumious Bandersnatch
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To: quidnunc
Way to go Zell!
Thats the way the MSM is today. They are aways looking for a story that would cast this this country in a bad light. The big story is right there in front of them. The great Courage and Honor that is the U.S. Soldier. He is ready if necessary to die for the freedom that the MSM take for granted. May this country always have a few good men and a strong president.
31 posted on 10/12/2004 12:01:09 AM PDT by bremenboy
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To: Fracas

The Bush blitz is gonna be something to see.

Kerry's gonna have real bad agita.


32 posted on 10/12/2004 12:02:10 AM PDT by Liz (The man who establishes the reputation of rising at dawn, can sleep til noon.)
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To: quidnunc

33 posted on 10/12/2004 12:03:30 AM PDT by walford (http://utopia-unmasked.us)
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To: blogbat

Absolutely!

Being born in 1974, my first opportunity to really hear a Democrat was the likes of Michael Dukakis, Jerry Brown, and the Clintons. I never could QUITE figure out why my grandparents voted Democrat, my parents voted Republican, and BOTH were staunchly anti-abortion!

I was a junior in high school during Desert Storm, and you can bet that our left-leaning teachers influenced us by telling us that the war was all about oil. We didn't hear anything about Saddam's regime and his murderous ways...we just heard about "no blood for oil." I'll admit that I bought into the propaganda.

After my conversion to the Republican party, i.e. I started working and wondered who the heck this FICA guy was, I became more motivated than ever. Funny, but my grandparents decided that Clinton was too much for them, and both had registered Republican when they passed on.

So imagine my delight when I heard Zell Miller...it was like something from another planet. And reading these articles TOTALLY reminds me of playing cards and talking politics with my grandpa, who is now in heaven CHEERING that I've seen the light.

But enough vanity...


34 posted on 10/12/2004 12:07:03 AM PDT by andie74 (W stands for Women)
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To: Liz

And probably a few other things which rhyme.


35 posted on 10/12/2004 12:08:54 AM PDT by blogbat (Holding Out for 2008, but still voting in '04)
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To: andie74
I grew up a Reagan Republican, just four years older. I was the youngest young republican in Smith County, Texas when Ronald Reagan ran for re-election in '84. He and Miller were cut from the same cloth as the nice old preacher in the country church who'd stand up on Sunday Mornings and tell it like it is- and how it can be. These are men who stopped the world long enough to find that absolute Truth and then, unabashedly let it guide them.
36 posted on 10/12/2004 12:14:31 AM PDT by blogbat (Holding Out for 2008, but still voting in '04)
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To: quidnunc

Yep...the same 'rules of reporting war from the US perspective' was written about how the US Globalist reporters would have covered the events of D-Day

They would have all demanded we surrender to Hitler within hours after hour troops slogged their way ashore

The same after Peal Harbor....would have had us surrender to the Japs and said the war was unwinnable.

During the Revolutionary War they would have had us surrender to the Brits..no blood for freedom

And during the Civil War told the slaves they were out of luck..war is unhealthy for children and other living things...

The domestic enemies of America have had their propagandizing way with America for so long....they cannot believe anyone is fighting back or challenging their version of reality...

Reality must past the global test


37 posted on 10/12/2004 12:18:18 AM PDT by joesnuffy (America needs a 'Big Dog' on her porch not a easily frightened, whining,Surrender Poodle...)
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To: blogbat

I guess when European post-modernism reached the halls of American academia, we became enlightened to the notion that there is no absolute truth. How enlightening is that? It swiftly became our downfall, but I hope that we as a nation see the error of our ways.

BTW, my husband and I adopted two older children, who are ages 10 and 6. Both are going with me to the local GOP today to volunteer...their suggestion, not mine!


38 posted on 10/12/2004 12:19:54 AM PDT by andie74 (W stands for Women)
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To: andie74

Oh, and we homeschool.


39 posted on 10/12/2004 12:20:29 AM PDT by andie74 (W stands for Women)
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To: quidnunc

"President Roosevelt was elected to improve the economy but so far we are still in a depression and here we are at war now. General Eisenhower has been heard to say that we should all beware of the industrial-military complex. Such contracting companies engage in battles just to line the pockets of rich capitalists".

"Yeah, I saw that cover of Life Magazine. TALK about a photo op."

< /appropriation of modern leftist gripes >


40 posted on 10/12/2004 12:21:24 AM PDT by weegee (John Kerry: "I'm Oprah! EVERYONE gets a tax hike!")
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