It's more than just an 'impression'. During Good Morning America on Monday, I believe it was Diane Sawyer who made the observation that perhaps Woodruff's being so badly injured would be the "tipping point" in the war, that he was someone so well-known that it would be "one person too many". With comments like this from the arrogant 'It's All About Us' media, no wonder the troops are offended and upset ......
If I could have reached through the TV and slapped Diane's smarmy face I would have (and Elizabeth Vargas would have been next).
I don't really care that Woodruff and his side-kick were hit. In fact, I believe there may be some divine retribution going on here to teach the left-wing anti-American MSM leeches about what our military really does in their behalf. Perhaps during his recovery - and he will recover because he is being offered the best medical care in the world - he will get to know personally US personnel who have been there and done that. Perhaps he will learn some humility and, just perhaps, this will change his attitudes toward the US military and what it is accomplishing in Iraq, and elsewhere all over the world, for the USA. If only he will have the courage to become a spokesman for the military.
Not a tinfoiler but all men should steer clear of Vargas. She's bad luck: Jennings, Cohn, Woodruff
Good point, and it also was the basis for Chrstiane Ammanpour's self-centered tirade on Larry King the other night. The press mostly lives in an alternate universe.
By the way, lots of other civilians besides Woodruff go outside the wire on a daily basis in Iraq. I have respect for all of them, but at the same time assume they know the huge risks they are taking. Most do.
Perhaps this is crass, but if a KBR truck driver is injured or killed by an IED (and many have been), that is literally no different than what's happened to Woodruff. Yet nobody says the KBR driver's injury or even death is anything more than a risk that was calculated, taken, and lost. Period.
The MSM would like us to believe that their lives are more important than others in Iraq, and that their injuries demand some sort of unusual compensatory response.
Heck, the best I could hope for while there, was that there might be some 155mm counterfire against the almost daily incoming mortar attacks.