False heros
Michelle Malkin is a beautiful woman. And she's Conservative to boot. That's two pluses in my book!
Today, she wrote in Townhall.com, this article: The media and the unhinged Marine. Let me quote some of it for you:
Former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey was the liberal media's dream come true: An anti-war Iraq veteran who came forward to publicly lambaste the Bush administration and accuse American troops of murdering innocent civilians.Jimmy Massey was Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan and John Kerry all wrapped up into one tidy, soundbite-friendly package -- a poster boy for peace topped off by a military uniform and tattoos to boot. But like a lot of the agitators who pose as well-meaning, good-faith peace activists, Jimmy Massey was something else:
A complete fraud.
The article goes on to talk about the "atrocities" that this man had "witnessed," then was refuted by an embedded reporter with his unit.
This is what got my goat and prompted me to bring this to your attention:
The response of [embedded reporter Ron] Harris's colleagues who were duped by Massey? Mostly, a collective shrug. I e-mailed a reporter from The Washington Post asking if he would follow up. No response. A USA Today reporter told me he had no plans to do so. And I spoke with David Holwerk, editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee, which ran a lengthy freelance interview of Massey by an anti-war activist. "I don't know what we're planning to do," Holwerk said.Harris noted in a television interview that Massey continues to sell books and DVDs that smear our troops. "[I]t's been profitable for Jimmy Massey to keep telling this lie," he said.
The press are so, committed to proving the war "wrong" and proving the lie, "Bush lied!" that the truth is an inconvenience to them. So, they do what all delusional people do when confronted with reality, they ignore it. They ignore all of the words of Clinton, et. al. who said in the 90's what Bush said about Iraq post 9/11, it's just that Bush did something more than lobbing a few cruise missiles about it.
But then again, journalistic integrity isn't what is used to be.