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fortdixlover
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 Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject: Dems and MSM having faux anti-military Hissy Fit again |
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The dems and MSM are having a faux anti-military Hissy Fit again, this time over Tillman.
And they're having a bigger hissy fit over the fact that not only are an increasing number of Americans being immunized against MSM perfidy, but the MSM is increasingly being attacked for same.
The left has never been attacked as quickly and thoroughly as it has been in just the past few years, since the advent of blogs, and their heads are sooner or later going to explode from it.
It's very hard to give up unearned hegemony over "the narrative" ....
From Powerline blog (link):
| Powerline blog wrote: | The Democrats are at it again. Today Henry Waxman's Government Reform and Oversight Committee held hearings into the military's handling of the Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman news stories. The breathless headline that resulted was, Ranger alleges cover-up in Tillman case:
| Quote: | An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when the former football star died by friendly fire said Tuesday he was told by a higher-up to conceal that information from Tillman's brother.
"I was ordered not to tell him," U.S. Army Spc. Bryan O'Neal told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. ... He said he was given the order by then-Lt. Col. Jeff Bailey, the battalion commander who oversaw Tillman's platoon. |
Kevin Tillman, an antiwar activist who has posted on far-left web sites, denounced the military for deceiving his family about the circumstances of his brother's death:
| Quote: | In earlier testimony, Kevin Tillman accused the military of "intentional falsehoods" and "deliberate and careful misrepresentations" in portraying Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan as the result of heroic engagement with the enemy instead of friendly fire.
"We believe this narrative was intended to deceive the family but more importantly the American public," Kevin Tillman told a House Government Reform and Oversight Committee hearing. "Pat's death was clearly the result of fratricide," he said, contending that the military's misstatements amounted to "fraud."
"Revealing that Pat's death was a fratricide would have been yet another political disaster in a month of political disasters ... so the truth needed to be suppressed," Tillman said. |
There is no question that the initial misreporting of the circumstances of Tillman's death was stupid and improper. The claim of a government conspiracy to cover up the facts, however, is ludicrous. If you read the fine print in the article linked above, you find that Tillman died on April 22, 2004. His family was told that the cause was friendly fire on May 29, 2004, barely a month later. The same day, the Army publicly announced that friendly fire was the apparent cause.
So once the facts became clear and the matter rose to a level above the commanders in the field, the Army publicized the result of its investigation. For the Democrats and Kevin Tillman to try to make political hay out of this one-month delay, three years after the fact, casts them in a worse light than it does the Army.
Posted by John at 05:16 PM |
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Deuce
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We all rely on the Demedia to not let the facts get in the way of a good story (that spins their agenda)...as long as there's a Democrat Party, the media will spin the agenda for them.
I feel safe in saying that, and also am in total agreement with John's conclusion ... the 'hay' gets 'made' in the fringe left regardless!
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Anker-Klanker
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| Have you noticed how "contrived outrage" seems to be the emotion du joir these days? One would hope that everyone would get tired of it soon, but I wouldn't count on it happening real soon. The Libs (and their buddies the MSM - but they're really the same thing) think they've got G.W. Bush and the war on the mat, and seem to be getting more and more frenzied to deal the fatal knock-out blow. It's sickening to me, but I guess I'm just a dinosaur (and I darned sure didn't think that sending the Republicans on a stroll through the wilderness was a good idea). |
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