Contempt for our Military - End It!
As you may know, I regularly read the blog, www.hughhewitt.com and listen to his radio show two or three times a week. The current storm in the political blogosphere is on the comments of Eason Jordan of CNN that our military has targeted journalists for assination in Iraq. The following is an email to Hugh Hewitt in response to both those comments and the MSM (main stream media) in general.
Hugh,
A couple of points instigated by the Jordon remarks. First, where are the comments from the two elected representatives of the people who attended the gathering? Why is there no questioning of them and their positions? Why are THEY not speaking out in absolute horror at such a charge. At least calling for some kind of investigation, which we all know would be fruitless, but would put to rest any further left calling of the military into contempt. The “Silence of the Representatives” of the people is the most disappointing part of this whole debacle.
I served in Jimmy Carter’s Army and know what it is like to live in the contempt of your own government. While in a tank battalion in Korea near the DMZ in 1978 and when called out for alerts from North Korean activity only 17 of the 55 tanks could roll out of the motor pool. No parts for those that sat still and those that did roll had scavenged the others to be functional.
The Tree chopping incident in 1976 when two American officers were killed and we rolled out of our camps to alert positions WITHOUT AMMUNITION as the command was not allowed to issue bullets until the North Koreans had done something more. How many of us would be killed before we could distribute the ammo?
Our fuel oil was removed from our barracks heaters on the 15th of March. Drained dry. It was declared Spring and anyone who has ever been in Korea knows that spring is not really there until the end of May and early June. Nights were cold, but our Commander in Chief would not give us the oil to heat our hooches.
Our training was limited by fuel rationing and no ammunition. When we did have ammunition to fire, we had to collect, count, save and account for all the BRASS from the shells. If it were not for SFC Roy Baumgartner who had fought in the Korean War being able to go to ROK, Korean army compounds and be known for his reputation (see the book “Soldiers” by Anthony B Herbert where Baumgartner is held up as a living, breathing walking legend) and get us fuel, rations and ammunition. The Koreans supplied us better than our Commander in Chief did. We knew contempt!
Apologies for the sidebar there,
Now the second point on the MSM and in all of the posts and commentary I have seen on your site and those linked to your site and others, why is no one questioning the money behind these regular and blatant displays of bias and downright anti-Americanism? Bias or no bias the MSM runs on money. They are businesses. Why when there are such left leanings do the sponsors keep funding these propaganda mills?
The businesses that buy the advertising cannot be enamored by the left policies toward business that a John Kerry or Ted Kennedy would and sometimes do inflict on them in the form of taxes, union support, environment, trade restrictions, minimum wage and other regulations. Yet they continue to pay for this liberal voice at top dollar. I have not seen a discussion of this issue in the blogosphere or anywhere else. Why?
Without the money to support their stands they would stop. Clearly I am not advocating that business dictate the content, but it can demand balance and a return to reporting the news instead of creating it. Where is the accountability for the money? The sponsorships? Tobacco was held accountable for its sponsorships of sporting events, why can we not expect that the automobile industry and the investment industry be questioned for not buying balance? Why would they themselves NOT step up and demand balance as it is in the best interest of their shareholders that they do?
This note and reference to your site will be posted on http://www.theweeds.blogspot.com/
Stb.
LivingTheDream
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