Stop lying
To follow up on a post below about Rich Lowry's column, via TPM Muckraker comes further evidence that the National Review folks live in their own little fantasy world at best. At worst they are deliberately spreading lies.
From a post today at The Corner, the blog of The National Review, comes a post purporting to be the comments of a Marine serving in Iraq:
It would be simpler to dismiss these kinds of "emails" as the feverish work of conservative fiction writers, except that people tend to send them around the internet tubes, with the unfortunate result that some people believe them. Maybe a Marine did write that email in 2005, maybe he didn't. Since The Corner simply posted it without explanation, we have no way of knowing.
The National Review tells lies, and the American media prints those lies. I don't know if the Seattle papers carry Rich Lowry's column, but as I mentioned in the post below, The Oregonian carries it. So as far as we've come in the last few years, editors still choose to pump conservative agit-prop out there.
Must be nice work if you can get it. Most workers would be fired for such gross incompetence. Imagine how long a secretary or brain surgeon or truck driver would last performing their job so poorly. But in the upside-down world of American journalism, being wrong is the gold standard. "Hold still, sir, in order to provide "balance" to this operation, we are going to remove half of your temporal lobe."
From a post today at The Corner, the blog of The National Review, comes a post purporting to be the comments of a Marine serving in Iraq:
Morale: [M]orale among our guys is very high. They not only believe that they are winning, but that they are winning decisively. They are stunned and dismayed by what they see in the American press, whom they almost universally view as against them. The embedded reporters are despised and distrusted. They are inflicting casualties at a rate of 20-1 and then see shit like "Are we losing in Iraq" on TV and the print media. For the most part, they are satisfied with their equipment, food and leadership. Bottom line though, and they all say this, is that there are not enough guys there to drive the final stake through the heart of the insurgency, primarily because there aren't enough troops in-theater to shut down the borders with Iran and Syria. The Iranians and the Syrians just can't stand the thought of Iraq being an American ally ...Of course, you can find the exact same quote here and here. So TPM Muckraker is correct in pointing out this particular piece of rubbish has been circulating on conservative blogs since at least 2005.
It would be simpler to dismiss these kinds of "emails" as the feverish work of conservative fiction writers, except that people tend to send them around the internet tubes, with the unfortunate result that some people believe them. Maybe a Marine did write that email in 2005, maybe he didn't. Since The Corner simply posted it without explanation, we have no way of knowing.
The National Review tells lies, and the American media prints those lies. I don't know if the Seattle papers carry Rich Lowry's column, but as I mentioned in the post below, The Oregonian carries it. So as far as we've come in the last few years, editors still choose to pump conservative agit-prop out there.
Must be nice work if you can get it. Most workers would be fired for such gross incompetence. Imagine how long a secretary or brain surgeon or truck driver would last performing their job so poorly. But in the upside-down world of American journalism, being wrong is the gold standard. "Hold still, sir, in order to provide "balance" to this operation, we are going to remove half of your temporal lobe."
