Media Blasting Of Military

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From Investor's Business Daily

ON THE RIGHT

 

 

Media ‘Honor’ U.S. Soldiers With A Smear

 

 

 

THOMAS SOWELL

 

 

 

 

The same newspapers and television news programs that are constantly reminding us that some people under indictment “are innocent until proved guilty” are nevertheless hyping the story of American troops accused of rape in Iraq, day in and day out, even though these troops have yet to be proved guilty of anything.

What about all the civilian rapes that are charged — and even proved — in the U.S.? None of them gets this 24/7 coverage in the mainstream media.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated example of media hype of unproven charges against American troops.

While military action was still raging in the early days of the Iraq War, there was media condemnation of our troops for not adequately protecting an Iraqi museum from which various items were missing. When the smoke of battle cleared, it turned out that members of the museum staff had hidden these items for safekeeping during the fighting.

Then there was the incident when a Marine shot a terrorist who was pretending to be asleep and the media turned that into a big scandal until an investigation revealed how these and other tricks used by terrorists had cost the lives of American troops in Iraq.

None of the brutal beheadings of innocent hostages taken by terrorists in Iraq — and videotaped for distribution throughout the Middle East — has aroused half the outrage in the mainstream media as unsubstantiated charges made by terrorists imprisoned in Guantanamo.

Nor have most of the media become any more skeptical about charges made by these cutthroats in Guantanamo after the claim that copies of the Quran had been flushed down the toilet at that prison turned out to be a lie.

The idea of trying to flush any book down a toilet ought to have raised suspicions, but much of the media treats statements by terrorists and their supporters as true and any denials of wrongdoing by American troops as false and “a cover-up.”

These are the same liberal media people who claim to be “honoring our troops” when they hype every casualty and make a big production of each landmark death, such as the 1,000th American killed in Iraq and then the 2,000th.

The multiple-page spread in The New York Times and similarly elaborate coverage of these landmark deaths on liberal TV programs show that they had been preparing for these particular deaths for some time.

They may well be disappointed if we don’t reach the 3,000th American death, since the terrorists have shifted their attacks and now target primarily Iraqi civilians.

We all need to understand the fraudulence of the claim that these media liberals who have been against the military for decades and who have missed no opportunity to smear the military in Iraq are now in the forefront of “honoring” our troops by rubbing our noses in their deaths, day in and day out.

Troops who have won medals for bravery in battle — including one private who won a Medal of Honor at the cost of his life — go unmentioned in most of the mainstream media that are focused on our troops as casualties that they can exploit.

A recent study by the Media Research Center found that the three big broadcast news networks — CBS, ABC and NBC — ran 99 stories in 3 1/2 hours about the investigation of charges against Marines in the death of Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November.

These remain unproven charges in a country where people on the side of the terrorists include civilian women and children who set off bombs to kill American troops and who can set off lies to discredit those that they do not kill.

The same networks that lavished 3 1/2 hours of coverage of these unproven charges gave less than one hour of coverage of all the American troops who have received medals for bravery under fire.

Every newspaper and every TV commentator has a right to criticize any aspect of the war in Iraq or anywhere else. But when media claim to be reporting the news, that does not mean filtering out whatever goes against their editorial views and hyping unsubstantiated claims that discredit the troops.

Those troops deserve the presumption of innocence at least as much as anyone else.

[Doble Troble]

Thomas Sowell is a true American patriot. He is honest, intellegent and genuinely cares about truth and justice. I wish that more of his fellow Americans would listen to him, and think about the points that he makes. We would all be better off.

[TYRVR]

O.K. Boys and ..well .....boys, since Emul6&7/8ths ain't coming around no more, I have a question.....

What do the news reporting of WWII and the "news" reporting of today in Iraq have in common?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give Up? well heres the answer.....In WWII we had Ernie Pyle reporting,

today we have reporters that are a "PILE".......and I don't have to tell you what they are a pile of.....do I ?

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Nope, you sure don't have to explain!

I listen to NPR less and less anymore. They are good about in-depth reporting, which I like, but here's an example of how they are continuing to wade to the retard end of the pool- they reported on Pentagon spending being behind the "Support Our Troops" movement.

[karlunity]

Don't let it get to you.

 

The liberal media hate the troops.

 

All of their " we support the troops but condemn the war" was smoke and mirrors.

 

They hate the troops for two reasons:

 

A, The courage of the troops make the liberals FEEL like the cowards they are.

 

B, The troops protect the American way of life, which liberals hate.

 

You can expect a LOT more example of liberal outrage.

 

"It don't mean nothin".

 

The best way to overcome it is wave the flag and win the war.

 

karl