The Gaineville Times, and others, smears our military:
It comes down to a question of trust.
For the most part, Americans trust the U.S. military. The question is, why doesn’t the military trust us?
Two incidents in our overseas conflicts, and the Pentagon’s spin of each, have us wondering.
First came Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the West Virginia soldier rescued from Iraq after she was injured in a 2003 firefight. The story first came out that she went down with guns blazing before she was captured, then heroically rescued.
Here what you need to know, about the story of Jessica Lynch, as a hero fighting to her last bullet, was connocted by the Washington Post, most likely to support the idea a females in combat arms.
The WaPo ran a story that was never confirmed by the Pentagon and with dubious, or maybe imagination, sourcing. Ray Robison, American Thinker, explains the “Media Lynch Mob:”
The US media created this recounting of her exploits from vague, unofficial statements by “undisclosed officials” and having been revealed as rumor mongers started looking for someone to blame. Who else would they pin it on but the US military?
The leftards wanted a Mambo. They didn’t have one. So they concocted one.
You want someone to blame for the Lynch fiction, here they are Susan Schmidt and Vernon Loeb:
Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army’s 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Dispite attributing their yarn to U.S. officials in the lede paragraph, Schmidt and Loeb indentify the source of their story, such as it was:
Reports thus far are based on battlefield intelligence, they said, which comes from monitored communications and from Iraqi sources in Nasiriyah
Being so easily duped, had Schmidt and Loeb been reporting in 1938, I am confident they would have reported Martians landing in Grovers Mill, New Jersey,
Wry note, the WaPo editorializes on the Lynch bruhaha, notes the media frenzy, but totally omits her role in concocting the story in the first place.
The Gainesville Times is stupid enough to accept the Washington Post‘s story at face value, but somehow manages to blame their stupidity on the Pentagon.
Note Private Lynch was a real hero. I salute her for her service to our country.
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