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10.9.07 @ 12:01AM

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Yet, the press did not report on the hundreds of instances of American military negligence and incompetence during WWII.

Why?

Sure, much of the bad news was censored, but in those days the press really wanted the US to win that war. The press, in general, felt that the US was on the "good" side, fighting against the bad guys. (Of course, at the time the worst mass murderer in the history of the world, Joe Stalin and his Bolshevik hoards were on the "good" side too; so much for the notion of the last "good" war).

Today, the media elites and their brethren in academia and the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party truly dislike this country and all it stands for. Their comments to the contrary, they really do want the US to lose in Iraq as they wanted the US to lose in Vietnam. In fact, the media during Vietnam and today are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the extreme left; they are American equivalents of Goebbels' Die Sturmer or the Bolshevik Pravda and Izvestia.

The media during Vietnam, by their constant reporting of negative news -- real or otherwise -- helped form public opinion in this country that the war was a lost cause and, more sinister, the communist North was on the "correct" and "right" side, while the USA was on the wrong side. It was the media that encouraged and actively aroused the populace to protest the war. The radical left (SDS, etc.) knew that any protest they organized -- regardless of how small or insignificant -- would be prominently reported in the papers and on TV.

The same situation exists today in regards to Iraq.

Like all liberal elites, the media has an affinity for any tyrant that is anti-American and they will literally support, via white-washing or just plain ignoring, these tyrants. So, they know that being nice to Castro, Chavez and that other Castro wannabe, Ortega, will go un-noticed, and praised by their brethren in the American radical left. (Makes no difference how often these leftist Latin caudillos visit and hug their new found pal, Ahmadinejad of Iran. Also, remember Ortega hugging Kim Il-sung, the pere about 15 years ago). The media, as of yet, knows they cannot get away with being nice to Kim Jong-il, the fils, so they more or less ignore the mass exterminations -- via starvation -- that occur there.

The discovery of Saddam's killing fields had absolutely zero impact on the media views of the Iraq war. For every minute of news coverage of these killing fields (frankly, I recall no coverage) they provided 1 hour of coverage of Abu Ghraib.

It is simply impossible to reconcile the media protestations when confronted about their patriotism with their assertions that they are in fact pro-USA. Their actions (i.e., reporting ) -- far more loudly than their words -- define what they truly believe; that the US is now the Nazi Germany of the world and must be defeated. And they, the elite media, have by far the most effective tool for encouraging this view; the power of propaganda with all its attendant distortions and lies.

The real lesson here is that the US should never again wage an un-declared war AND, as FDR, Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln realized, allow an unfettered press. Since about 1965 the American mass media, for the first time in the history of this republic, has become viciously anti-American. No republic can survive a home-grown rot of this magnitude.

You can be rest assured that our left wing media will be at the forefront in support of any insurrection of Mexican-American radicals when that occurs, and it will. The propaganda arm of those radicals already is in place, ready to do their bidding.

Goebbels, his boss Hitler, and Hitler's first ideological cousin, Stalin must be smiling in their graves. Santa Ana will soon be smiling too.
-- AC
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Re: Pedro Solito's letter (under "Light His Fire") Reader Mail's Smiley Faces:

Too bad someone did not use some of that turpentine in the right spot on Mr. Solito. Is it too late to charge animal abuse?
-- Elaine Kyle

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