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September 04, 2009
HONOR
Yet another reason the Associated Press desperately needs to go off into a corner and screw itself slowly with a chainsaw.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.” The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published. The AP reported in a story that it decided to make the image public anyway because it “conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.”
Appalling doesn't begin to cover it.
Lance Corporal Josh Bernard was hit in an attack, yet another Taliban ambush in Afghanistan. This brave young man, this hero to our nation, enlisted in the Marines, knowing full well that he stood a high chance of not coming home alive. And yet he enlisted anyway. He chose to risk life and limb to protect me, my children, my wife, and the wives, husbands, children, siblings, parents and friends of every man, woman, and child in our nation. He chose to help free an entire nation from oppression., and to help defeat an enemy that seeks to convert, enslave, or kill every living human being on the planet.
And in his dying moments, some cowardly slug from AP shoved a camera in his face. Lance's father caught wind of this and repeatedly begged the AP not to use the photo, begged these vultures to preserve his son's dignity and the honor due him by his deeds.
AP needed more attention, so tough crap. Screw the dying soldier, screw his grieving family, the AP needed to make a point. After all, they've lost quite a bit of credibility, shirking their duties as journalists in favor carrying water for the Communist In Chief. What better way to re-establish their integrity than spitting on a stricken family at their lowest and using the death of a true hero like...well, I can't even find an analogy that compares to this.
Our hearts and prayers go out to the Bernard family, not only for their great loss, but for the horrid treatment they have received from the Obamaganda Press.
Posted by TFMo at September 4, 2009 08:44 PM
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Comments
Very very well said....especially the chainsaw part.
Posted by: christmasghost at September 4, 2009 09:07 PM
Journalism is dead.
Posted by: Helmand at September 4, 2009 11:48 PM
What is wrong with these people anyway?
Posted by: Blanche at September 4, 2009 11:53 PM
Simple. They're scum. Liberals are not, by any stretch of the imagination, humanitarian in nature. How could they be when they advocate the destruction of babies while trying to protect serial killers from execution. Consider how many hundreds of thousands Hussein murdered in his own country, with promises to murder more. We go and remove Hussein from power, freeing the country from an oppressive genocidal dictator, and yet WE are the bad guys, according to the Left. Consider how they exploit the deaths of their own party members, like Kennedy, invoking his name to pass their ridiculously harmful bills.
There is nothing logical about liberalism; it defies common sense in favor of feeling good about themselves. Sure, let's give amnesty to the poor downtrodden illegal alien, even though in doing so we destroy those who obey the law. Let's raise taxes on the wealthy, even though these are the people providing jobs. Let's protect a bait fish, even though in doing so we ruin the farmers in California and obliterate a third of our nation's food supply. Let's take an oath to defend our Constitution as we set it on fire.
Humanitarian liberalism is as big a contradiction as a vegetarian cannibal.
Posted by: TFMo at September 5, 2009 12:03 PM