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Originally Posted by loquitur
Host, I'm with you on the issue of holding people without charges and absent a showing of military necessity, as I said. All I was saying was that it should not be surprising that opinion journalists, like Michelle Malkin to use your example, have a distinct point of view and follow it in their stories. Why is that surprising? Doesn't Frank Rich do the same thing? Keith Olbermann? It's not outrageous that they do this, it's to be expected. They disagree with you (and often with me) but why is this a cause celebre?
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The military PR dept. and conservative bloggers seem to be acting as one. The military is supposed to be outside of politics. Eisenhower and Powell had no discernible party affiliation until after their military careers...
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Originally Posted by from my last post
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1003664994
Gen. Petraeus' Spokesman Denies Sending Angry Email -- Plot Thickens
A critical email allegedly sent by a top U.S. military spokesman to a leading blogger this past weekend is starting to draw mainstream attention. But the colonel had sent an equally hot note to E&P in May defending the general -- without reading the report in question.,,,,,
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I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect that the AP photographer was detained because of an outcry from these bloggers, despite a lack of evidence of wrong doing.
I think it's unreasonable for the bloggers and the white house/DOD to be adversaries of AP, or to dismiss AP as a news source...it's fringe thinking to do that....