Posted on 11/06/2003 7:29:27 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
No. Of course not. Could this be a Jayson Blair incident? Since we know the truth now, I think the Washington Post writers need to seriously explain themselves. They ran the Rambo story. They better write a follow up now, or turn in their resignations.
From what I've been told, Muhammad gave his blessing to the rape of captives in his Haddith's. Anyone know for certain?
ABC says Jessica discussed "a report" that she was "sexually assaulted". Jessica says she has no memory of this. Who is the report from? This is too ambiguous, and it seems to be more of the same kind of innuendo that got the rumors going about Miss Lynch firing off rounds.
I admire her honesty. She could have let everybody think she was Rambo, and lived in the glory of that, but she told the truth which in some eyes might lessen her, but in my mind enhances her a great deal.
It is apparently in the book she signed a $1 million contract on.
I also agree that Pvt. Lynch is a class act and she is very lucky to be alive, and I'm glad she is telling the truth, but I never heard a single military spokesman ever describe her capture as a wild firefight or a scene from a Rambo movie. The Press blew this out of proportion and they should take the blame, not Jessica Lynch nor the Military.
I agree... I never heard any military spokesman describe her capture as a wild shootout, like something out of Rambo. It sure seems to me that the MEDIA was responsible for these fabrications of her rescue. Yet look what Drudge is highlighting across the top of his page right now as I type this...
Jessica Lynch criticized military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and recasting her ordeal as patriotic fable.... MORE.. Asked by ABCNEWS anchor Diane Sawyer if military's portrayal of rescue bothered her, Lynch said: 'Yeah, it does. It does that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff. Yeah, it's wrong' ... Asked how she felt about reports of her heroism: 'It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about. Only I would have been able to know that, because the other four people on my vehicle aren't here to tell the story. So I would have been the only one able to say, Yeah, I went down shooting. But I didn't' ... Asked about claims the military exaggerated danger of the rescue mission: 'Yeah, I don't think it happened quite like that'...
Lynch said no one among the staff at the Iraqi hospital was abusive to her, "no one beat me, no one slapped me, no one, nothing … I mean, I actually had one nurse, that she would sing to me."
Either the Washington Post or the military was lying here, (Or she is lying now).
I think this merits at the minimum, an in house investigation at the Washington Compost of the two reporters. Either the reporters are Jayson Blair clones, or administration officials were lying in a most blatant manner.
There WAS a young blond soldier who fought to the death. It was a male soldier, I cannot recall his name, but there were several stories about hinm. His actions were inadvertantly attributed to Jessica Lynch, but later corrected and his heroism recognized (although never reaching the "glory" stages that Private Lynch had heaped upon her while she struggled to recover).
You are correct; she is a very classy person, indeed.
The heroism mistakenly credited to Jessica Lynch belonged, instead, to a young, blond male soldier who did die fighting as described. I cannot recall his name, but there were articles about him. In the frenzy of information gathering, someone obviously got their wires crossed and believed Lynch was the young blond soldier who fought so valiently.
The record was later corrected.
Perhaps some kind FReeper can dig up the articles for me, but there was a young, blond male soldier who died heroically, fighting to his last, from that unit and in that battle. Apparently, his actions were mistakenly credited to Jessica; however, the record was later corrected. Articles were written about him, with interviews from his parents. If I recall correctly, his first name was Steven.
There doesn't appear to have been any forethought of malice, just spotty intelligence during a frenzied period, which was later reported because it came from a bonafide source. From there, the media had a feeding frenzy.
Blair did the same damned thing, so I am not immediately blaming the administration for putting out these bad facts to be charitable. These reporters need to be accountable for the error filled report they filed.
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