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To: Sully- who wrote (15559)	11/6/2005 10:49:44 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

What a difference 34-years makes! Bruce Kesler Democracy Project Need some Sunday cheer? Read on. Several weeks ago, John O’Neill and I had dinner. We reminisced about how in 1971 we joined in the Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace to tell the truth about John Kerry. We recalled how we thought then our efforts had consigned him to the dust-bin, only to have to do it all over again in 2004. It wasn’t until 2004 that the collective first-hand knowledge of the Swiftees was collected to reveal the full extent of John Kerry’s exaggerations and falsehoods. Turn to 2005. Somehow I think that we won’t have to worry three-decades from now about Jimmy Massey running for president, showboating a salute to the Marines he betrayed. Ron Harris reports two stories in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. In “Is Jimmy Massey telling the truth about Iraq?,” Harris does what other reporters have not. Harris collects the reports of fellow Marines and embedded reporters to reveal Jimmy Massey as a out-and-out liar. Massey has been traveling with Cindy Sheehan, wrote a book, and his charges been repeated across the globe that he and other Marines wantonly murdered Iraqi civilians. Ron Harris’ other report, “Why did the press swallow Massey’s stories?” is even more telling. In quote after quote from mainstream press leaders, Harris has them telling how they didn’t bother to do elementary fact-checking, easily available to them. Unspoken is that the anti-Iraq war bias of the mainstream media made acceptance of Massey’s charges automatic. One editor even has the effrontery to defend this failure as “something that happens every day in our newspapers and with practically every story on television” as if that broader journalistic failure makes it OK instead of revealing the wider problem. Today, compared to 1971, we have an alternative media, we have the Internet, we have bloggers. If we’d had them in 1971, John O’Neill and I could have enjoyed our middle-age without having to remount in 2004. Thanks to these new media today, Massey’s fellow Iraq veterans may get to relax more in their middle-age. [HT Gateway Pundit] democracy-project.com stltoday.com stltoday.com