Bob Herbert NYT: MSM should talk about Vets like one deployed 7 times who died instead of Wright!

[1776Forever]

Thanks to Blomst for posting the link to this article:

I suggest everyone read this!!!! Bob Herbert has been on Twitty's show before and I think I heard him say he always reads his columns! Sure as H hope he and the rest of the MSM talking heads read this one and take what Herbert says to heart!!!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/opinion/03herbert.html?em&ex=1209960000&en=3e80e918218fc188&ei=5087

Overkill and Short Shrift

By BOB HERBERT
Published: May 3, 2008

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is no doubt (and regrettably) a big issue in the presidential campaign. But what we’ve seen over the past week is major media overkill — Jeremiah Wright all day and all night. It’s like watching the clips of a car wreck again and again.

We’ve plotted the trend lines of his relationship with Barack Obama over the past two decades. What did Obama know and when did he know it? We’ve forced Barack and Michelle Obama, two decent, hard-working, law-abiding, family-oriented Americans, to sit for humiliating television interviews, reminiscent of Bill and Hillary Clinton on “60 Minutes” at the height of the Gennifer Flowers scandal.

We’ve allowed the entire political process in what is perhaps the most important election in the U.S. since World War II to become thoroughly warped by the histrionics of a loony preacher from the South Side of Chicago.

There’s something wrong with us.

(snip)

A highly decorated Army ranger named David McDowell, a 30-year-old father of two from Ramona, Calif., was killed in Afghanistan this week. As I read his obituary, I noticed that he had been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq seven times. What does that tell us about our shared wartime sacrifices?

I’d like to hear a lot less about Reverend Wright and a lot more about why the U.S. can’t close the deal in Afghanistan and hardly even seems interested in extricating our G.I.’s from Iraq.

(snip)

Americans are hurting on the jobs front. Those who are employed are working fewer hours and for less pay. Some sectors are crippled by unemployment. There are big-city neighborhoods in which the real jobless rate of young African-Americans is 80 percent or higher.

Do the candidates have concrete strategies for engaging these problems? Could we hear about them? Explore them? Critique them?

Are we in the news media going to be serious about this election, or is it really going to be all about Wright and race all the time?

Most of the electorate understands that the U.S. is in sorry shape, which is why more than 80 percent of poll respondents say we’re on the wrong track. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has nothing to do with any of that. The idea that his nonsense may shape the outcome of this election is both tragic and absurd.

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Now that ladies and gentlemen is a JOURNALIST! There are very few of them left! They are endangered species in this country and I for one salute this man!

BRAVO!!!!!
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[Tribetime]

1. They have no credibility anymore its tabloid and disgusting

k/r

[thunder rising]

2. seven times ... victory or death (as long as it isn't my kid or kin, iokiyar)

[1776Forever]

5. Gave me chills when I read it - Had 1 son over in Gulf 1 & another 2 times now in this one.

But thank God they are OK so far. Blessings to all the Vets and their families.

[ecstatic]

3. Only 28% of Americans have the foggiest idea of how many troops have died

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/13/national/main3933818.shtml

[Cha]

4. Thanks Bob Herbert but since

the mediawhores are guilty of marching the US to war ON Iraq just as much as the bushites and all those who enabled them..I don't think we're going to see the war On Iraq going badly from those screamers.

They're going to go on and on and on until Americans get so fed up with the noise mascarading as nooze.. they decide to march on them en masse to protest the propaganda.

[chill_wind]

6. "There’s something wrong with us." He's referring to the media from the inside.

Just last week he was part of the pile-on. Still, I'm glad to see this newest piece above, though it comes very late in the day.

The Pastor Casts a Shadow (4-29)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/opinion/29herbert.html?ref=opinion


Smokin Joe or Tweety probably won't have him back for any commentary til after November.