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Jewish World Review
March 28, 2011/ 22 Adar II, 5771
The MSM Kills the Kill Team Story
By
Arnold Ahlert
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In my previous column for JWR, I predicted that our military was on the verge of enduring its worst scandal since Abu Ghraib. I stick by the scandal assessment, but it is not the one regarding the existence of a "kill team" of American soldiers deliberately murdering Afghan civilians in the Kandahar province. It is about the collective existence of a mainstream media kill team which has seen fit to murder this story into obscurity, despite a guilty plea by one of the twelves soldiers involved in the atrocity.
Compare this non-coverage to the overwhelming onslaught of stories about Abu Ghraib. How has the same mainstream media which turned that story into an ongoing saga managed to keep a lid on something far more serious? How did we get wall-to wall coverage of a "scandal" whose parameters pale by comparison with the murder of three Afghan civilians by five troops and the subsequent coverup by seven others?
Understand I take no pleasure any vilification of the American military. As far as this writer is concerned, the overwhelming majority of our fighting forces are some of the finest people this country has the honor of calling our own. They have been asked to do everything from killing America's enemies, even as the stultifying Rules of Engagement increase the risk of death to themselves, to "winning the hearts and minds" of Islamic ingrates. They have been tasked with "nation building" in Afghanistan, a country which has known precious little building and almost nothing about being a nation. They have been tasked with keeping the peace in Iraq after crushing al Qaeda in that terrorist organization's most decisive defeat to date.
Many of them have been on multiple tours of duty, because we have leaders who no longer understand what the word victory means. They go about their job in overwhelmingly hostile environments, even as the overwhelming majority of Americans only acknowledge their existence on national holidays. They are genuine unsung heroes in a country whose faux-heroes consist largely of bone-headed jocks, spoiled-brat Hollywood stars, and self-aggrandizing political and media peacocks. And lest anyone forget, every one of them volunteered to serve our nation.
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Yet none of it makes them perfect. Every large organization has its share of miscreants, no matter how sophisticated they are at culling the rotten apples, and the military is no exception. Perhaps the greatest irony in this whole charade is the same liberal media which saw fit to publish top-secret information about such things as wiretapping international phone calls, or terrorist financial transactions--as a means of demonstrating their integrity with respect to reporting the truth, regardless of the consequences--is collectively averting their gaze elsewhere.
Everyone who is honest know why. Now that our former "cowboy president" has given way to our "international out-reach artist," nothing which might end up in the minus column of Barack Obama's presidential ledger will be given remotely the same treatment. As of this writing, there has been no speculation about how high up the chain of command the current debacle goes, or what the president and/or his advisors knew, or when they knew it. No officers have been fired, as a brigadier general was during Abu Ghraib incident. "60 Minutes" has yet to do a show. Photos of the murdered victims haven't been plastered night after night on every news channel in the country. None of the current defendants have been turned into household figures the way Specialist Charles Graner "and his former fiancée," Specialist Lynndie England, were during Abu Ghraib. The bet here is that no Americans, other than dedicated news hounds, could name a single defendant in the current case.
Again, I bring this up not to illuminate the deficiencies of our military. It is our mainstream media which have revealed that there are no limits to their own depravity. Don't believe it? Ask yourself when the media ever downplayed a multiple-murder story, or soft-pedaled a military scandal. Ask yourself how it's possible that president Obama has neither been asked single a question, nor made a single statement about these murders, despite the fact that they occurred in 2009, and that Specialist Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, AK pleaded guilty to the crimes last week.
Reality check: the mainstream media is engaged in arguably one of the most damning and deliberate errors of omission ever orchestrated in order to protect "their man" in the White House. And take it to the bank that such "selective reporting" is going to increase exponentially the closer we get to the 2012 election. Our self-admitted cocaine-sniffing, communist mentored, paper-trail-less, terrorist associating occupant in the Oval Office will never be subjected to remotely the same journalistic rigor that will be directed at whomever his Republican opponent turns out to be.
If a hopelessly slanted media which has never passed up a chance to bash our men in women in uniform can casually dismiss three murders, one can only imagine what else be "filtered" out of the headlines if it doesn't fit the "narrative." We already know what 400 JournoListers were willing to do to "coordinate" the news during the last presidential election, and that was before the Democrat drubbing of 2010. With the threat of yet another drubbing in the 2012, one which could be fatal to progressives, expect more of the same lies, deceit and errors of omission that happened the last time around.
If there is a bottom to the media barrel, we'll likely be scraping it in the next twenty months.
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Previously:
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03/16/11: The Inevitable Viability of Conservatism
03/14/11: Progressives in Their Own Words
03/09/11: $61 Billion in Cuts --- Vs. $223 Billion in One Month of Spending
03/07/11: Bean Bag B.S.
03/02/11: A Green Catastrophe in the Making
02/28/11: Ain't Noting Like the Real Thing
02/23/11: Progressive Rot vs. the ROTC
02/21/11: Wisconsin: Progressivism in All its Ugly Glory
02/18/11: News reporters --- or Narrative Shapers?
02/16/11: The Presidents Budget Proposal: An Obamination of Progressive Profligacy
02/14/11: Only Another 9/11 Will Alter the Illegal Immigration Status Quo
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01/27/11: Small-scale Terrorist Attacks: Big Strategy?
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