General Mattis, hero; Eason Jordan, skunk —– Old Media: worse than Jordan
This Mattis / Jordan business is so outrageous. Hugh’s entry sums it up:
Type “Mattis” into the search engines of the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times and you will find stories here, here, here, and here on United States Marine Corps General James Mattis’ remarks on war fighting made this past Tuesday.
Type “Eason Jordan” into those same search engines and you will get nothing concerning Jordan’s scandalous accusation at Davos on January 27 that the American military “targeted” and killed a dozen journalists in Iraq. Zip. Nothing.
The elite media instantly saddles up to ride to the condemnation of a speech given by a warrior much beloved and respected by his troops –a genuine hero and charismatic war-winner who believes in closing with and killing the enemy before they kill his troops and more civilians, and for whose ideology of fascism he has complete contempt.
But let the speech be given by a MSM big, and let the subject be a slander on the entire American military, and the result is total MSM silence.
This is why there is near complete contempt for the MSM among center-right people. Think about it. Every major paper has an anti-Mattis story. Not one has even mentioned Jordan.
No one seems to have picked up yet on a further element of the CNN / Eason Jordan scandal, namely the propaganda for the Saddam Hussein regime put out on Eason Jordan’s watch, as we discussed here, here and here. We hope that will become an additional element in the story of the appalling Mr. Jordan.