Foleygate Returns
Don Surber
Remember Linda Foley, the president of the Newspaper Guild, who slandered American soldiers this spring? It was at a convention in St. Louis on May 13. Maybe the Trey Jackson video will jar the memory. Or try this story from World Net Daily:
Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or … ah, or … ah, politically. They are also being targeted for real, um … in places like Iraq. What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq.
The union should have canned her. But it didn't. Anti-war rants -- accusing our troops of wanton murder -- are accepted by the Newspaper Guild.
But a pro-military support-our-troops rally? Never. That would show a prejudice. Consider how the Newspaper Guild stopped the Washington Post from sponsoring a military parade on Sept. 11th to commemmorate the fourth anniversary of an attack on the Pentagon that left 184 civilians and soldiers dead. Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher magazine talked to the union rep, Rick Weiss, who said: "Basically, the guild is calling for the Post to reconsider and drop sponsorship as a matter of maintaining its appearance of neutrality on polarizing issues of policy."
Management decided to back down. One learns to pick one's fights with unions.
But the Guild is anything but neutral on the subject, adopting a resolution that said, in part:
"Post news employees are subject to disciplinary action for participating in political activities that may be perceived as revelatory of personal opinions or bias. The Washington Post itself should be held to the same high standard. Moreover, arguments that the Freedom Walk is anything other than a political activity -- and indeed, a political activity in support of the war in Iraq -- should be put to rest by the prominent participation of country music star Clint Black, best known of late for his war-glorifying song 'Iraq and I Roll'."
This is the same Guild that protested on Oct. 24, 2003:
Even the Dixie Chicks were branded traitors to their country because they expressed chagrin over the actions of a certain fellow Texan.
So free speech applies to the Dixie Chicks, not Clint Black.
In joining such groups as United for Peace and Justice, Guild members are "participating in political activities that may be perceived as revelatory of personal opinions or bias" -- the very thing they say they wish to avoid.
Couple that with Foley remaining on the job after slandering our troops and you have an indefensible bias showing."
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