The past few days I’ve\u00c2\u00a0written about poor journalism on the part of the Washington Post and the Associated Press regarding stories they’ve published\u00c2\u00a0about supposed atrocities that never happened – articles about Americans slaughtering\u00c2\u00a0innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n
So where the hell are the Associated Press and the Washington Post on embedded independent reporter Michael Yon’s latest article, “Bless the Beasts and the Children<\/a>“\u00c2\u00a0(by way of Jewish Odysseus<\/a> by way of Atlas Shrugs<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0about al Qaeda butchering an entire town in Iraq;<\/p>\n I told the Iraqi commander, Captain Baker, that it was important that Americans see this; he took me around the graves and showed more than I wanted to see. He said the people had been murdered by al Qaeda. I made video of him speaking, and of the horrible scene. The heat and stench were crushingly oppressive and broken only by the sounds of shovels as Iraqi soldiers kept digging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My feelings mirror those of Jewish Odysseus;<\/p>\n Mil-Blog Journalist Michael Yon [http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/] deserves a Pulitzer for this story alone, the latest in a long string of superb battlefield reports.<\/p>\n You haven’t seen a word about this anywhere in the MSM, have you?<\/p>\n But, hey, I hear a prisoner in Gitmo was served COLD falafel this morning…Let’s send a camera-team to confront Gates!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Or let some legislature member in Afghanistan accuse Americans of murdering<\/a> over a hundred civilians, or some anonomous Iraqi “police” officer accuse Americans<\/a> of slaughtering Iraqis in their beds as they sleep and the journalists in their hotel rooms go into a writing frenzy. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n So why aren’t there more stories that justify our actions in Iraq? Because the media is afraid that the Left will accuse them of being a tool of the Administration – the Left doesn’t want the truth broadcast to Americans (see the latest dustup about reinstating the Fairness Doctrine) because the Left looks like a pack of knuckledragging, drooling morons when the light is shown on them.\u00c2\u00a0And thanks to the independent journalists who actually venture out into the battle with the troops, like Michael Yon, the mainstream press looks like the Left’s lapdog.<\/p>\n Well, at least Fox News<\/a> has the guts to run it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"