In my last post, I commented on Janeane Garofalo’s absurd allegation that the MSM is somehow a tool for the Republican Party, suppressing information that, had the media not been so blatantly in Bush’s pocket, would have swayed the vote in Kerry’s favor.

For those of us that live in the real world, we know that the exact opposite is true.

• We know that Dan Rather and CBS were so driven by their political bias against President Bush, that they fabricated a story, based on forged documents, in order to damage the President’s re-election campaign.
• We know that the MSM would rather focus their attention on a few bad soldiers in Abu Ghraib, while completely ignoring the day-to-day heroics of thousands of other US Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• We know that the MSM has ignored the democratic elections in Afghanistan.
• We know that the MSM has covered up and failed to report on the enormous amounts of voter fraud committed in favor of—and often by—the Democratic party.
• We know that the MSM would rather try to discredit Condoleezza Rice than to report on the blatant racism by Senators Robert Byrd (an ex-Klansman trying to block a confirmation vote on the first black female Secretary of State) and Barbara Boxer.
• We know that on Inauguration Day, ABC News was soliciting leads on any funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq, so they could give ‘balanced’ coverage to the Inauguration ceremonies, no doubt.

What Ms. Garofalo also doesn’t get, is that the men and women in our military also see the ‘fair and balanced’ coverage of our MSM. And, like Ms. Garofalo, they know that the media does have an agenda and a bias. But unlike Ms. Garofalo, our troops know which way that bias leans:

As successful as this Operation was, it like all others, shapes us for future operations. The hunt will go on and ELECTIONS WILL OCCUR.

I have stopped watching the news from the US totally. I no longer can take the maniacal rages it places me in as I swear ungentleman-like profanities at the TV in my dust covered cubby-hole of an office, directed at “pundits” and “experts” who do not, in my very humble opinion, have a single clue and who report every single incident that occurs here as if they are color commentating on a football game.

Well, I can barely fog a mirror intellectually, but I think I know a thing or two about this war thing, and the vast amount that I don’t know, I have certified geniuses like Maj Dan Whisnant and CWO5 Roussell to teach me. And what I know…war is a slog. And a counter-insurgency fourth generation war is definitely a slog. The only weapon the enemy has IS the MEDIA, and the target is YOU! They are attempting to win this War by breaking your will.

Do you hear that Ms. Garofalo? You, my dear, little radical, are giving aid and comfort to our enemies. You have beome their tool.

More from Capt John F. Griffin, RCT-1, 2d LAR Bn, Apache Company, Fallujah, Iraq:

The elections are close at hand and I can only imagine the spin the media is making this out to be. All of us here look forward to the election because it will truly mean mission accomplishment. Even if only a small minority of citizens comes out to vote, the message will be historic and revolutionary. The path of this country will be in the hands of free Iraq and regardless of the path they chose, be proud for we gave them that opportunity to chose.

You see, Ms. Garofalo…our boys in Iraq know which way the MSM is slanting the war they are fighting. And its the same direction you are attempting to spin it.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005 | Trackback |