Main Stream Media (MSM) Circles The Wagons (Again)
I love the way these f*#@king boneheads quote prisoners who have been released, but never American servicemen who have been guarding these enemy combatants. It always seems to be “Blame America First” - investigate later…
Posted by ploeg
05/17/2005 at 04:19 PM
"War hath no fury like a non-combatant.”
C.E. Montague
It’s easy to see what’s happening here: The MSM is circling the wagons which are being hauled by guilt and future possibilities of their own degradation. Each one of them is thinking - ‘There but for the grace of God go I’. Their best strategy is to join forces and sip the sherry of their own distortions of the truth.
Let them. They’re joining forces with the devil at this point and laugh to scorn our common stupidity to see through it. I don’t think that will happen this time as our ‘common’ fury has taken the place of our tendency to let things play themselves out. Any defense of the indefensible by others in the MSM now just pisses off another American. The smart ones won’t say a word but will wield the editorial ax with a more judicious eye from now on.
Posted by Phoenix
05/17/2005 at 06:46 PM
The specific lie was a lie, but the general lie was the truth!
To be sure.
Phoenix, I’m not so sure that any judicious eyes exist in the MSM. That would presuppose a modicum of common sense and good judgment, and so far as I can see, they are devout strangers to both.
Well, Tanny,
We can only hope that as these ‘mistakes’ mount, the editors come to embrace a modicum of common sense and good judgment. It is long overdue, and I don’t think there is a publication out there that has not felt they may be next in light of how easily this latest debacle at NEWSWEEK took place.
What does your first line mean?
Posted by Phoenix
05/17/2005 at 09:06 PM
It is called sedition, and they should be charged and prosecuted to it’s full extent…
Hi Phoenix, the “specific lie” referred to the Newspeak story itself. The “general lie” referred to that “fake but accurate” campaign referenced in the Media Research article above.
Some of their fellow travelers are rallying around. They cite the Grauniad and some other English tabloids who interviewed some released detainees from Gitmo who told a similar story.
What they won’t repeat is the story of the detainee(s?) who were stuffing the toilets with koran pages to plug them up in some sort of protest.
Which means that in their eyes:
ex-detainees=credible
US military=not credible (unless they don’t deny some half baked story in which case their credibility is conveniently restored for citation purposes)StinKerr, that story about detainees stuffing the toilets in protest makes perfect sense. That’s an old trick among prison inmates and certain kinds of schoolkids.
