Mainstream media

Blame the media for soldier burned in effigy

By Judi McLeod

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Members of the left leaning mainstream media should collectively hang their heads in shame.

A soldier has been burned in effigy at an anti-war protest in Portland.

It likely never would have happened without what Rush Limbaugh coined, the "drive-by" media.

In treasonous times, the desecration of G.I. Joe was never far away from reality. It began to gather momentum with a media that lionized the anti-war movement's every protest and ended with a fairytale media deliberately suppressing the pro-troop side when the moment of truth landed with Eagles--in front of their very eyes.

On Saturday, you just knew the anti-war types were going to go into foot-stomping tirades and burn a soldier in effigy. It's not every day that a 30,000-strong ragtag group called Gathering of Eagles put the lie to the anti-war movement. That's the day the cut-n-run set were shown up to be as about as effective as dead men (and women) walking.

Even though media hyped moonbats were, for the first time, vastly outnumbered and forced into the temper-raising reality that America loves its troops, the mainstream media tried to let on otherwise. They were snookered from the get-go. The veterans of war, including the insulted and long abused Viet Nam ones took charge, standing in true solidarity to protect The Wall.

Anyone could have predicted that soldiers burned in effigy were coming down the pike when the mainstream media chose to look the other way when disabled Iraq-war veteran Josh Sparling was reportedly spat at as he voiced his support for his fellow troops at January's anti-war gathering.

Last time the anti-war activists converged on Washington, they broke through a Capitol Hill police security cordon, spray painted the Capitol grounds, and desecrated the Lone Sailor statue that stands watch at the U.S. Navy Memorial.

That's why war veterans who traveled to Washington from as far away as Hawaii were there to stand them off last Saturday.

In goose-stepping sync with the cut-'n-run advocating anti-war activists, the mainstream media is just as treasonous.

This is the same media that comes slavering on the run whenever they get the siren call from Benedict-Arnold-in-a-skirt Jane Fonda.

The same media who ignored 30,000 patriots who answered the call of Move America Forward and The Gathering of Eagles to keep their cameras trained on and their microphones in front of a ranting Cindy Sheehan.

Why is the media helping to foster anti-American sentiment and trying to keep a portrait of American troops as bullies before John and Josephine Q. Public? It's because for them, the movie star-studded and communist supported anti-war movement, rather than objectivity, are calling the shots.

Taking the path of least resistance in today's leftist dominated media keeps reporters cashing their paychecks.

It must be heartbreaking for real parents with real sons and daughters in Iraq to see their own media writing scripts that boost the morale of the enemy with their children still in harm's way.

The latte sipping prissy sissies of the nation's newsrooms are far more adept at covering Hollywood. It's not only all the rage, it's so much safer.

Leave it to syndicated columnists like Michelle Malkin to stand in the Washington mud for six hours during the St. Patrick's Day protest where Fonda was a spectacular no-show.

Little wonder why media outlets are losing out on circulation and advertising revenues. They're now routinely out scooped by bloggers on every front.

It was the freepers who outed liar Dan Rather.

And now with the media playing out who-done-it escapades in the aftermath of Anna Nicole Smith's life on earth, it was the awe-inspiring blog, www.littlegreenfootballs.com unearthing the news that matters, that anti-war activists burned an American soldier in effigy. (Check out The Drudge Report, Ms. Fonda).

Meantime, the mainstream media earned the abiding disrespect of some 30,000 patriots, who spent their own money to get to Washington to stand in protection of The Wall.

Caught red-handed with their hands in the proverbial cookie jar like the sniveling characters out of a Charles Dickens's novel, the mainstream media has been shown up to the masses for what it has so shamefully become.

There is no bigger insult than the truth. Hiding behind their notebooks, microphones and cameras, the media of the day are 100 per cent boosters of the same anti-war movement that endangers so many brave lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com