“Until they come to grips with how long and frequent deployments are straining soldiers and shattering lives we will continue to see this frightening trend” - Lie of the week from Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)

The mainstream media’s propaganda war against the US military continues…

For years, the alphabet news networks, the New York Times, the AP and Reuters have been steadily beating the drum of defeat - spewing enemy propaganda and generally doing everything in their power to sap support at home for our military efforts abroad.

A few weeks ago, I published a piece on the New York Times’ fascination with military murders. Last week an AP writer had a fetish with military suicides. At some point, one has to ask why they’re so agog over the deaths of US military members?

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Technorati Tags: Associated Press, Media Bias, US military

With success taking shape in Iraq,  liberal journalists don’t have much to talk about. Unable to impugn the reputation of the military on the battlefield, the New York Times has again resorted to the character assassination of our armed forces here at home.

Both Iraq and Afghanistan have seen Americans awarded the Medal of Honor. There have been stories of selfless sacrifice; of Navy SEaLs exposing themselves to direct enemy fire to radio help for their team or Marines who instinctively hurl themselves on enemy grenades without hesitation. There have been missions where US Army soldiers were compromised by civilians, their missions ending with dead teammates because rather than neutralizing these threats, which would  both assure mission secrecy and be well within their rules of engagement, these gallant US soldiers chose to let them live.

But if you believe The New York Times’ Deborah Sontag and Lizette Alvarez,  the US military is nothing more than a ragtag collection of drunkards, wife beaters, drug abusers, criminals and murderers.

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Technorati Tags: Deborah Sontag, junk science, Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, US military

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

Democrats continue to choose treachery over patriotism, siding with our enemies while ignoring the realities on the ground in Iraq as well as throughout the rest of the world.

While there is now some Democrat infighting over MoveOn.org’s recent character assassination of 4-Star US Army General David Petraeus (and rightfully so), there is no public Democratic Party disavowal of the attack on this American patriot. As a result, there is increasing outrage among military families and average Americans over these horrendous tactics designed specifically to divide the country. The only 2 conclusions one can draw from Democratic silence over MoveOn.org’s cheap shot courtesy of the New York Times are either political cowardice or outright approval.

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Technorati Tags: , al Qaeda, General David Petraeus, Iraq, MoveOn.org

Hokie - “a word that people used to express feeling, approval, excitement, surprise” - Johann Norstedt - Retired VA Tech English Professor

Once again, a suicidal maniac hell-bent on exacting as much revenge as possible has struck one of the nation’s schools, this time a world-class university. But as information about the shootings, suspect and victims arrived at news desks in drips and drabs, the over-the-top coverage of the incident by the mainstream media wasn’t very helpful. In fact, the sensationalism with which NBC, Fox News, and others covered this nightmare did nothing except feed disinformation and rampant speculation.

On the April 16th morning broadcast of Fox News Live, within hours of the conclusion of the massacre, Fox contributor and former D.C. Homicide Detective Rod Wheeler was asked about the possibility that an M-16 may have been this shooter’s weapon of choice. It is unclear -and may never be known- whether a witness reported an M-16, whether a witness assumed that an M-16 was involved due to the volume of fire, or exactly where Fox obtained this information. If you’ll remember the Beltway sniper incident which turned out to be the work of John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, initial speculation in the media was that a military-trained sniper was likely involved. Similarly, the immediate focus of the media speculators once again fell on a member of our armed forces in Blacksburg. Mr. Wheeler wondered aloud on camera what the shooter’s affiliation to the military might have been, as M-16s were not exactly easy to come by.

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Technorati Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Rod Wheeler, The O'Reilly Factor, VA Tech Masscare

“Oh, Oh, its answer is an AK-47″ - Al Aqsa Television 4/16/2007

When the Palestinian people held free and fair elections and Hamas was handed the reigns of power back in early 2006, the conventional wisdom was that radical elements within the various Palestinian factions would be neutralized or at least tempered if they were given a stake in their own future. Despite a staunch refusal to renounce violence and continuing calls for the destruction of Israel by the Palestinians, many in the international community lent their full support to the fledgling government.

After the elections, when it became clear that Hamas was still beholden to the annihilation of the Jews, Israel, the United States and Canada among others swiftly cut off foreign aid, in effect levying sanctions against the Palestinian government. But as we’ve seen time and time again in Iraq, Iran, North Korea and many others, sanctions themselves do not work and in reality have the opposite effect, hardening the resolve of those living under them.

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Technorati Tags: Hamas, Israel, Terrorism

It has long been alleged by conservatives that there is a liberal bias to the media. It has also been alleged by liberals -although with much less to support the allegations- that there is a conservative bias to the media. In an effort to determine in which direction the scales of bias tilt, let’s examine some of the documentary evidence in support of the argument of liberal bias. Below are just a few of the more recent, notable examples.

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Technorati Tags: Alan Colmes, Associated Press, Frank Wuterich, Haditha, Iraq, Justin Sharratt, Media Bias, NY Times, Scott Pelley, Washington Post

It can easily be argued that much like an automobile that begins to depreciate the moment it has been driven off the lot, the debate that is the bread-and-butter of the modern-day, American, two-party political system began to deteriorate the moment the wheels of the very first reelection campaign were set in motion. But boy, how far we’ve come. That’s the message given by two former Presidents. In just their latest in a series of bipartisan lovefests, former Presidents Clinton and Bush lamented the increasing harshness in recent media coverage of politicians, particularly the office of the President.

In a recent speech at the CTIA wireless industry conference, the elder Bush said that the relationship between the p