Posted on 06/12/2006 9:25:54 PM PDT by Reagan Man
Every six months or so, the liberal media search for any story that casts our soldiers in a bad light. Abu Ghraib was portrayed as indicative of almost the entire U.S. Army when, in fact, it consisted of less than 1/1000 %. Besides which, in the scheme of possible war atrocities, it doesn't even rank. It was more uncouth behavior than atrocity.
As soon as a scenario is found where our soldiers defended themselves from enemy fire, road bombs or check-point crashing cars, the media indict our boys, without first considering the circumstances which necessitated the shooting response. Guilty! Guilty until proven innocent.
It is quite obvious the media have a preconceived attitude toward our men and women in uniform and look for events to affirm their view. It is equally obvious that the media do not wait to issue its guilty judgement, even before the facts come in. For in the media's mind, the guilty outcome is a foregone conclusion given the liberal media's notion of who our soldiers really are. They want to believe the worst.
In the mind of most of today's smug liberals, our soldiers are rednecks -- and rednecks, when let loose and not under control of "civilized" liberals, do what comes natural to rednecks -- they act rednecky. Liberals feel that way since, in their parochial view, who would enlist and volunteer unless one is poor, has no chance for upward mobility, and has a tendecy and lust for violence?
They believe this since most have no friends or family in the military. These elitists perceive the soldier and the military as below their class. Perhaps they heard of a grandfather who served back in the days when there was a draft, but not today.
Why do they so despise our military? Why do they never come to its defense? Why do they never understand the frightful plight of the soldier who, when fired upon by the enemy, has no recourse but to fire back if he wishes to stay alive? Why does the liberal not understand what he has seen countless times, namely, that the Jihadist enemy positions women and children in his front while shooting at our soldiers?
It is because the liberal moralizer deep down knows that he does not have the physical courage and might of the soldier. Compared to the soldier, he is a coward and weakling. His strength lies only in bringing law suits and sounding morally superior to the rest of us.
The liberal moralizer needs to tear down the U.S. soldier as a way of guaranteeing that the soldier is never elevated to a more honored level in American life than is he, the liberal moralizer. Tear down the soldier and you destroy the honor we feel toward that soldier. Find anything to show you are better than the soldier so that you and your smug liberal friends can celebrate your superiority. Liberal media guys cannot abide that America has heroes who are not them.
For the media, the heroes are Woodward and Bernstein or Washington Post and New York Times reporters who splash across the world U.S. national security secrets. They admire not those who defend but who tear down. Many entered the business for precisely that reason: to indict our institutions and ways.
By and large, certain very liberal cosmopolitan men are jealous of what the soldier can do, and have a desire, a need, to destroy the object of their envy.
By pressuring our government not to allow our soldiers engaged in urban battles to respond quickly, liberals -- especially the media -- are heightening the possibility that our young men will be killed. Their school yard "legalities" are handcuffing our soldiers and are, I'm convinced, precipitating American deaths and casualties. Our soldiers are now hesitating to defend themselves out of fear of being brought up on charges at the hands of the ACLU.
Our home-grown leftists must know how their 24/7 finger pointing and accusations are endangering the lives of our boys. Perhaps that is why they do it, not to mention a desire to humiliate our military and cause the defeat of the U.S. They have become accessories to and instruments for death.
If we in the West decide that our soldiers can never fire back at the enemy when women and children are present, then we have handed the enemy a sure-fire method for our defeat. We might as well roll up the streets of the West, now, since the enemy can move forward with immunity house-by-house, building-by-building, in every urban setting in which they choose to fight, including London and New York.
Thank God our safety is in the hands of these guys from the Midwest and South and not those snivelly effeminates from Brown, Brandeis, Columbia and NYU. If it were so, we'd by now all be prayer rugs.
Remember that Arkansas once elected a Governor Clinton.
One method is to project their s--t upon the next generation. Lies and truth won't matter to that end, so long as they raise kids who are free of shame, "violence", and - above all - a free and spirited will of individual strength.
The Soldier
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.
"Our home-grown leftists must know how their 24/7 finger pointing and accusations are endangering the lives of our boys. Perhaps that is why they do it, not to mention a desire to humiliate our military and cause the defeat of the U.S. They have become accessories to and instruments for death. "
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This is horrible, but it's the absolute truth. NO "perhaps" about it.
***Remember that Arkansas once elected a Governor Clinton. ***
Never with my vote! I missed a chance to knock a naked man out of a tree down on Dickson street during an anti-war protest years ago. Unfortunatly I was meeting a girl up at the university. She never show up.
The naked man was William J. Clinton.
Just watching and reading their product, I'd say because they are stupid.
I think he reads my posts haha That is a good one :)
Because they are bloody cowards and the very existence of our wonderful, brave military is a constant reminder that all the msm will ever be are miserable wimps.
I agree with that as well. Not all liberals fit one mold, they are a mixture of many crazy thoughts in their head.
"Why Do Liberal Media Despise Our Troops"?
Um, this is just a guess, but maybe because they are mostly self-loathing cowardly liberal wimps who hate America and everything this nation stands for? /spit
The Left is not anti-military, only anti-U.S.
The Left doesn't mind the military of other countries, and celebrates the military from communist countries. Never had we ever heard a discouraging word about The Red Army, PLA, NVA, and Viet Cong.
The Left positively lionized the Abraham Lincoln Brigage, Americans fighting for Commies in Spain.
This is a good article..some observations: While watching tv this morning and watching the General describe how al-Zarqawi was killed this morning i was struck by the gross ignorance of the reporters..Not only did they ask their liberally biased questions, but they asked such idiotic things as: why didn't the US troops give any consideration to capturing al-Z rather than letting him die...letting him die ?!..he just experienced two 500 lb bomb blasts and had massive internal injuries- including blown out lungs and sinus cavities- thats why he died !..why was there such a big bruise on his face ?..no, it wasn't from a rifle butt..it was from being slammed into a wall which also happened to crush his hip..their questions also had hints of heavy sarcasm- like, why was it the field commanders decision to kill al-Z, rather than wait for permission from higher headquarters?
Rather than say the nasty liberal media have this intellectual and moral superiority, i think it is a case of saying it is matter of deep ignorance and unconscionable indecency..also blatant disregard for the past successes of the military in keeping this country free for the past 240 years to protect their constitutional freedoms to ask their obtuse questions. They are repugnant, they are traitors, their behavior is deeply shameful,and they are a disgrace to their profession to show the world their deep lack of knowledge of US History and callous disregard for a country that is fighting for it's very existence.
I am sending this article via snail mail to my mother, an old-time Truman Dem who fails to see the sedition in the party of her choice and the MSM. Oh, but those last few words were redundant.
I keep telling her if she would get Fox News or the Internet, she would see the light. :)
"It is because the liberal moralizer deep down knows that he does not have the physical courage and might of the soldier. Compared to the soldier, he is a coward and weakling. His strength lies only in bringing law suits and sounding morally superior to the rest of us".
That was the best line I have read in a editorial in a long time,but it is the truth.Those hippie,pinko,commie bastards would not pick up a rifle to defend this country if it was their own life on the line.
The simple answer is that the MSM is filled with anti-American traitors.
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