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Have the Mainstream Media Ignored Our Heroes?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L), Jun 19, 2006.

  1. Page 13? Two days after the Pope died? If it was the day after - then you would have a point. It was buried on page 13. What other stories did the NYT fill in before the story on Smith recieving this country's HIGHEST MILITARY HONOR.

    As far as the pull out - it was written 6 months after the fact. That's like doing a review of the NFL draft 5 years after the fact.
     
  2. Pat Tillman died from friendly fire. Pat Tillman was not murdered. Do you know think that his comrades feel awful for the events that lead to his death?

    Edward O'Hare was also probably killed by friendly fire but the government never tried to investigate that either. Sometimes mistakes happen in the fog of war.
     
  3. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Weird. That's not the story I read in the first months after his death. And I seem to remember something about charges. I'm sure they are probably just charging the liberal reporters with getting the story wrong.
     
  4. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Tell that to the Tillmans. I'm sure you know more about the whole thing than they do.
     
  5. Stop beating your wife yet? That's the logic you are employing.

    BTW - I haven't seen any psy-ops links from you on Jessica Lynch

    BTWII - in a recent poll just 16% of British adults trust journalists to tell the truth. The results would be just as bad in this country. You need to look into the mirror before stalking about trustworthiness and credibility.

    Ted Turner, Jordan Eason, Dan Rather, etc., etc...
     
  6. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    and yet you still so badly want to be one of us that you just keep coming back
     
  7. I'm willing to give the other Rangers the benefit of the doubt. This was not a pre-planned act. They thought they were firing on the enemy.

    Since neither of us was there - I know as much as you - yet I am willing to give the men who have dedicated their lives to protecting our freedom the benefit of the doubt. You are not so willing.
     
  8. I keep coming back because I miss you Hoops.
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    The point is the Army lied to cover it up.
     
  10. The Army wanted to make sure it had its facts 100% sure before telling the Tillmans. I can't find fault with that. The media is the ones crying "cover up"

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/03/AR2005050301502.html
     
  11. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    You forgot this bit from your own link, spinmeister:

     
  12. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    This line says it all about your purview, Lou. You trotted out all the right phraseology.
     
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