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2007-02-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

Another "Great Journalist" Exposed As War Fraud

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-22 12:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They comprise a two-generation roll call of distinguished names in journalism: Christiane Amanpour, Homer Bigart, Walter Cronkite, Thomas Friedman, David Halberstam, Seymour Hersh, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Bill Moyers, Edward R. Murrow, Daniel Schorr, I.F. Stone, and many others.

Quite a few loony lefties in that list.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-02-22 13:16|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-02-22 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, Stalin's laughing at me. He wants to know how come I never won one of these.
Time to find Polk and kick his ass...

Posted by The Ghost of Walter Duranty 2007-02-22 13:20|| 2007-02-22 13:20|| Front Page Top

#3 GO FIGURE!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2007-02-22 13:20|| 2007-02-22 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Who killed Polk remains a mystery. His body, drugged, bound, and shot in the head at close range, washed up in Salonika Bay during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s.

Sounds like suicide to me.

Posted by The Ghost of Dictators Past 2007-02-22 14:31|| 2007-02-22 14:31|| Front Page Top

#5 And in his mind, the intrepid journalist Dan Rather was a battle hardened US Marine with the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor etched into his heart.

(at least until he quit boot camp prior to graduation)

* spit *

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-02-22 14:54|| 2007-02-22 14:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Mark Z, Rather didn't quit, he was deemed unsuitable to be a Marine. In other words, he washed out.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-02-22 16:35|| 2007-02-22 16:35|| Front Page Top

#7 It is probably fitting to nominate Al Gore for the George Polk Award fraud.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-02-22 17:10|| 2007-02-22 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 John Lundstrom, an historian mentioned in the article, is the author of The First Team, Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, and many other books on carrier combat in the Pacific, and probably knows more about the Pacific war than Admiral Yammamoto did. I just finished The First Team, and it's a ripping good read with a wealth of detail, down to naming individual pilots (and their planes' tail codes and serial numbers!) for every sortie flown by every F4F in the Pacific for the first seven months of the war.

If John Lundstrom says George Polk wasn't a naval aviator, he wasn't a naval aviator. Period.

Posted by Mike 2007-02-22 18:19|| 2007-02-22 18:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Nother brick in the journalistic wall of dishonor.
Of course, looking at some of the Polk Award honorees... it can be argued that they are carrying on the same grand tradition.

Do I need the extreme sarcasm tags?

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-02-22 18:45|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-02-22 18:45|| Front Page Top

#10 a 60 year tradition of truthiness

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-22 19:01|| 2007-02-22 19:01|| Front Page Top

#11 This story has now been offered to the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, the New Republic, Harper's, Slate, the Wilson Quarterly, and the American Scholar. The first three declined to publish it; the others did not respond.

I used to be disgusted. Now I'm just amused.

Posted by Pappy 2007-02-22 21:02|| 2007-02-22 21:02|| Front Page Top

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