Let’s jog our memories about freedom and the wars we have fought to obtain freedom, maintain freedom and promise freedom to those after us.If we could send them back in time, (and Lord, I'd love to send them all back)What would a reporter of today from Reuters, or the AP report about Valley Forge, in the late 1700’s?
Would Howard Dean have been able to tough it out all winter at Valley Forge, or how about Michael Moore?
If we could send some of the reporters from Newsweek Ragazine back to a battle during the March to Richmond in 1863, how would they paint our fighting men trying to extract some information from an enemy combatant? Or what about the almost daily death toll of several hundred, as our men marched under the leadership of General Grant?
How would they write about a president with a very low approval rate, who sent hundreds of thousands of men to their death? How would they write about the draft riots in New York City? How would they write about the war?
How would they write about a president with a very low approval rate, who sent hundreds of thousands of men to their death? How would they write about the draft riots in New York City? How would they write about the war?
Or when we were trying to bring freedom to France, how would today’s cadre of news reporters write about the fight for freedom there. How would they report the deaths on Omaha Beach? Would they report that a milestone had been reached on the second day, when the 4,000th death occurred?
Would they seem almost giddy when the battle was going badly?
Would the MSM of WWII, glorify someone like Cindy Sheehan, who had lost a son on Omaha Beach, and could not see the whole picture, and went about dragging her son's memory through the dirt of the press?
I think it has done some good to jog our memories.
War is not good. But if we quit fighting the islamofacists, will they quit cutting the heads of off young Christian girls, just for being Christian? Be honest about it.
Would they seem almost giddy when the battle was going badly?
Would the MSM of WWII, glorify someone like Cindy Sheehan, who had lost a son on Omaha Beach, and could not see the whole picture, and went about dragging her son's memory through the dirt of the press?
I think it has done some good to jog our memories.
War is not good. But if we quit fighting the islamofacists, will they quit cutting the heads of off young Christian girls, just for being Christian? Be honest about it.
I suggest you educate yourself on the news media of those times - especially during the Revolutionary War. They were as brutal then as now - if not more so, in the vernacular of the period.
ReplyDeleteIn the mean time you seem to forget that one of those freedoms we fight for is freedom of the press - including the "MSM" to report whatever they like.
I always love suggestions from anonymous. And I rush out to follow the suggestions of such cowardly people.
ReplyDeleteNo the MSM does not have the right to report whatever they like...for example Dan Rathers reporting a lie he knew was one.....there is no right to libel, lie, forge. And our MSM conviently leavesout all good news.
Newspapers are losing readership because of their disingenious work.
They should be reporting, not trying to change the world....just the facts please.
In better days, the lies, libel and forgery of the MSM would be stopped by civil actions in court.
Don't tell me about rights, unless you can tell us who you are.
I think i'll ban anonymous comments.
Good choice. I hate wussies who want to talk smack but won't leave a name.
ReplyDeleteHe's full of crap anyway. You never said the media should be muzzled. Nowhere does it say that in your post.
Of course, if the media turned around and acted like Fox News how long would they support the "right" of the media to report whatever they like?
As anonymous put it, the Michael Moores of their day DID hype up the anti-war cause. In fact, they were a lot worse back then- the worst terrorist attack in San Francisco history was set by an anti-war protestor at the outset of World War I. No protestors are setting off bombs today.
ReplyDeleteAnd as you put it, war is hell. Whether just or not, the Iraq War is horrible, just like all wars.
It's interesting to note that many ex-servicemen tend to have a liberal point of view. I wonder why? I certainly changed my point of view when I saw the calibre and ideals of those who sent me and my friends out to die on some foreign sand dune. At the time it was a right-wing government, - who I supported.
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