Sins of media omission
I often think Michelle Malkin's columns go over the top, but sometimes she really hits the nail on the head.
This CNN article for example, was so blatantly partisan it might as well have been written by the Democratic National Committee:
(CNN) — One of the members of John McCain’s new Truth Squad — which his campaign says was launched to respond to unfair attacks on his record of military service –- was a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and appeared in an attack ad for the group in 2004.The article crudely tries to dismiss Col Day's endorsement of McCain by painting him as a "swift boat member", a term that has been so distorted by the media that it's considered an indelible stain on anyone it touches.
The group was created to attack 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry’s military service record.
Problem is, Col Day appeared in a Swift Boat ad, but he wasn't a member of the group (see here). But the more troubling part is that no background of Col Day is mentioned whatsoever, except that he was a POW with McCain in Vietnam, as if he's only supporting McCain because they used to be roommates or something.
They don't have to go over his bio in full detail, but they might have mentioned just a little more. Like that he's a Medal of Honor recipient (although does appear in fuzzy text in the picture). Or that he's one of the most decorated veterans ever. Or that he has more than 35 years of military service in the Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force, seeing combat in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. In Vietnam, he survived imprisonment as a POW for more than five years, even though he was shot during an escape attempt, and tortured afterward. And that's only a small part of his story. He is, quite literally, a living legend.
One big clue that something is wrong is that John Cole thinks the article is just fine.
Incidentally, the piece was written by Rebecca Sinderbrand, who used to write for the left-leaning Washington Monthly, with articles such as "Rove 2.0: Dick Wadhams is the next Republican maestro of cutthroat campaigning. Can Democrats figure out how to stop him?" and "Unsettling: How self-delusion led Israel and America to disastrous occupations of Arab lands".
2 comments:
It's ironic that CNN is so partisan, when it was the first President Bush that turned them into a major player during the first Gulf War.
But here I don't think it so much CNN as the author, who was trying to do some "swift-boating" herself.
CNN = Communist News Nutcase
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