Here’s part of an email a friend sent :
Let’s start off with today’s N&O (Jun. 9). Their front page, above-the-fold headline:Zarqawi did play the MSM like a drum. And after his death reporter Sly, the Chicago Tribune, and the Raleigh News & Observer teamed up to do a little more drum beating for him.“U.S. strike kills Zarqawi; Iraqis brace for chaos.”Below-the-fold is the story by Liz Sly of the Chicago Tribune. Here’s the 4th paragraph:“But Zarqawi’s death was a rare moment of triumph [my emphasis] for the U.S. military, dogged by allegations of misconduct and the relentless pace of insurgent attacks over the past three years.”A “rare moment of triumph?” That’s certainly what the MSM wants you to believe, that the insurgents (terrorists to most of us who don’t live in MSM-land) are winning. […]
The terrorists aren’t winning, either in Iraq or in Afghanistan. And if the recent arrests in Canada, the UK, Switzerland and the US are any indication, they aren’t winning outside of the ummah either.
Zarqawi played the MSM like a drum. If the MSM has its way, Zarqawi will soon be the next Ché Guevara—another sadistic, vicious, cold-blooded, fascist mass murder recently rehabilitated in Robert Redford’s The Motorcycle Diaries. […]
The U. S. military had “a rare moment of triumph” is exactly the message Zarqawi would want the American public to take from his death.
With that message received and believed, Americans are set up to endorse the “cut and run” from Iraq strategy many liberals and all leftists and terrorists want us to adopt.
But it's a false message. Just read blogs such as Mudville Gazette and Blackfive if you doubt that.
It’s terrible that reporter Liz Sly and some of her fellow journalists at the Chicago Tribune and Raleigh N&O would use the occasion of Zarqawi's death to deliver the terrorists' message.
4 comments:
First an NAACP guy named McSurely and now a reporter named Sly?
This stuff just writes itself.
MSM on the Death Of Yamamoto: Won't stop relentless advance of Japanese.
Sheesh.
-AC
No, but it sure as Hell put a crimp in Yamamoto's day. Didn't do their strategy a damn bit of good either.
Straight-
I'm guessing that many people (ahem, MSM bashing alert) have a different perception of war than I do.
Must be reading about WWII, the recent War of Northern Agression, and several years of Caesar's Wars.
I commend our Army and Marines for their ability to follow modern rules of war. And so far as those help advance the overall strategic goal, good on 'em.
But at the end of the day these men are the heirs to Picketts Charge, Tarawa, Iwo, the Marne, Tet, and a thousand un-known battles.
And you gotta let the enemy know that at the end of the day we just tell them to "get 'er done."
-AC
AC, I believe you may be right. It's not just a different perception of war, however. They feel the need to edit reality whenever it makes them emotionally uncomfortable and they are so righteously arrogant as to think they can, simply by changing the words, alter past reality and future inevitable consequences of that reality. It is a form of mental illness,I think.
Though, I suppose an argument could be made for it being nothing more than the primitive superstition of an underdeveloped mental capacity. Thereby replacing, though abominably, the need to consider, reason, and use logic based in reality.
I almost wonder if this condition is not a contagion as it seems unlikely that so many would suffer it otherwise.
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