Will the MSM and the nutroots grant Ginger Gilbert “absolute moral authority”, too? Or does that only apply to pro-defeat mothers of fallen soldiers (vs. pro-victory wives of fallen soldiers)?
(The answer is, No…of course they won’t.)
Days after an al-Qaida-linked group released a video showing the body of a Luke Air Force Base fighter pilot killed in Iraq last year, his widow lashed out at the national media, accusing it of politicizing and using the images to erode public support for the war.
Ginger Gilbert, making her first public comments since the video emerged last week, said Tuesday that she couldn’t remain silent after watching media coverage of a “disturbing video” of the corpse, identification card and crash site of her husband, Maj. Troy Gilbert.
“When media chooses to use Troy’s plane crash as a political catalyst to generate anti-war sentiment, it only serves to degrade the moral integrity my husband possessed and the morale of those still selflessly serving,” Gilbert said at news conference at Glendale’s Falcon Dunes Golf Course, across from Luke.
“Every time the press lends credibility and significance to terrorist propaganda clearly designed to erode public support or questions the validity of our brave soldiers’ selfless acts of service and the war itself,” she added, “it only serves to damage our country from within its own borders and embolden those who would do us harm.”
Emphasis mine. Every time the MSM or Leftard bloggers open their mouths in regards to the War on Terror they do exactly that — lend credibility to our enemies.
Somehow I think that this widowed mother of 5 children would disagree with Sally Fields‘ “if mothers ruled the world” pile-of-shit analogy… And we know Sally doesn’t speak for Patricia Heaton, whom my mother said does speak for her (though my mother is the daughter of a retired Army Coronel, married a Sailor, sent three sons to the U.S. Army [albeit one of them only to the Texas Army National Guard], and now supports and prays for one of her grandchildren in the U.S. Army…so she might be a bit biased about the necessity of men fighting wars on our behalf).
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OTHERS:
Rusty at The Jawa Report:
I mourn with her at the grief of the loss of her husband, and I share her outrage at anti-war propagandists to use her husband’s death to discredit the cause he gave his life for.
Amen, brother.
The Tank on National Review notes, “As of this posting coverage of Ginger Gilbert’s press conference isn’t found beyond the local Phoenix media.” Well of course it isn’t. Why would the National news be interested in a mother who supports the troops and their mission.
Compare this minuscule coverage to the round-the-clock coverage of Cindy Sheehan sleeping in a ditch, and you’ll know which way the MSM slants when it comes to “reporting” on the war on terror (If it’s against it, it leads!)
I don’t understand: showing what happens in a war, death, destruction, blooshed, etc, is propaganda?
Left by John Jarzemsky on September 19th, 2007 at 3:31 pm