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2007-03-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

Why the New York Times buried Maj. Bruce Crandall's Medal of Honor on page 15.

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Posted by Mike 2007-03-01 06:13|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Most Americans are button-burstingly proud of our military, and we should be. It's only the traitors in the Democratic Party and the MSM who work overtime to denigrate them and falsely minimize their accomplishments. Am I questioning Dem/MSM patriotism? Damned straight I am. I suspect in WWII a lot of them would have been interned for the duration and a few of them would have been shot.

Posted by mac 2007-03-01 06:59|| 2007-03-01 06:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I think we give the MSM too much credit. Why is it that in spite of all the bull on the MSM, we have young men and women from all walks of life who still go into the military. It's not only the poor but the priveleged who are going in as we communicate. Bruce Crandall is my hero.

Posted by Art 2007-03-01 09:35|| 2007-03-01 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Mac,

No, Mac, the worst act of MSM treason ever was during WWII when the Chicago Tribune deliberately revealed that we had broken the Japanese military code.

FDR did the smartest thing possible. He totally ignored it and the Japs never caught on.

Posted by E. Brown 2007-03-01 09:36|| 2007-03-01 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 This is a really well written article that seems to be moving a lot of people today. I posted it right after Mike and, as I type, Dennis Prager is on the radio talking about it. We've gotten so used to this sort of behavior from the MSM that we tend to take it for granted, which makes us complacent about its pernicious effects. More hell needs to be raised about this subject. I salute Daniel Henninger and Dennis Prager for doing their part.

Posted by ryuge 2007-03-01 13:26|| 2007-03-01 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Wasn't the MSM complaining a couple of months ago because so few medals had been awarded in Iraq? Seems to me I saw a segment on the evening news where they had a general trying to justify the situation: it's hard to get a medal for being hit by an IED. And the ROE don't allow you to chase an Iraqi in a loin cloth behind a hooch and shoot him in the back.

Posted by KBK 2007-03-01 16:18|| 2007-03-01 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 We in the submarine community know of the Congressional/MSM conspiracy of WW2, when a jackass Congressman in 1942 had to brag that the Japanese "were so stupid about setting their depth charges too shallow". Of course, the NYTwits wanted to print it but couldn't because of wartime censorship. So. they printed it in their overseas editions, where the Jap embassey's could read about it.

Consequently we started losing more subs.

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