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May 19, 2009
Video: How Can the Mainstream Media Get Away with Such Lies?
Colonel Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)
It is difficult for me to watch last weekend's re-play of my interview with Governor Huckabee. For one thing, spending 10 years with NBC made being interviewed on Fox seem like an out-of-wedlock experience! For another, one inevitably wonders: Who is that slower-talking old guy conversing with the Governor?
Vanities aside, I am very grateful he gave me that chance. Simply put: there is no other way to expose the short-comings of our media elites (like the New York Times) than through other media elites (like that upstart-turned-giant known as Fox News). As you watch this clip, you too may be led to wonder what I first asked over a year ago: "How can they get away with this?" You may also be shocked but not surprised to learn that the NYT recently won a Pulitzer Prize for their profoundly misleading story about the military analysts like me that you used to see on TV (most of the networks simply having run for cover). But what I hope you will conclude is that journalism is too important for our democracy to have its worst shortcomings overlooked and even applauded – rather than fearlessly exposed and corrected.
Best wishes to the entire FSM family for a safe and meaningful Memorial Day!
Colonel Ken Allard (US Army, ret.). Contact: Warheads6@aol.com
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