I assume you're saying that my post was asinine -- you don't know me nearly well enough to decide I'm a jerk. I haven't had a chance to be an ass in person!Originally Posted by Vladimir
I was attempting, however clumsily, to counterpoint the initial post, which had as its base assumption the idea that modern media would reflexively undermine any war effort, due to liberal bias. If you will recall, Clinton's warlet in Bosnia received a withering level of contempt from the right-wing media at the time, as well as denunciations from the Republicans in Congress.
And if you will recall, the media in the U.S.A. was as rah-rah as possible during the initial combat phase of Iraq War 2, a fact that came back to haunt them when the sequel turned out to have a complicated plot.
The thrust of the initial post was that modern media (which is controlled by the Liberal Elite, and possibly the Jews and Commies) are not only partisan, but anti-war, and possibly a fifth column of treachery. This is a trope that has been running on blogs and talk radio for decades. A countering position was warranted, even if I handled it clumsily.
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