Political Observations of the Day

I have two observations I would like to get off my chest for today.

First - have you noticed that there have been no follow-up stories on the supposed "Wedding Massacre"? My guess is that once the facts were checked - the main stream media learned that the military's version of events were correct. There was no wedding party in the middle of the desert celebrating at 3:00 am in the morning. Just 40 terrorists who made the mistake of firing on our boys in uniform instead of surrendering.

The main stream media (folks like The Boston Globe and The New York Times) were anxious to make this front page news when they thought it was a failure that they could carp on and quick to forget it when they found it to be a success for the military.

Doesn't that piss you off?

Isn't the fact that we engaged 40+ terrorists just 25 miles from the Syria border news? Aren't there important questions that need answering from such an event? Who were the terrorists? What was their nationalities? Who was funding them?

Instead of answers - we get silence. (And the editors of newspapers wonder why people turn to the Internet as their primary source of news.)

The media wants to feed us bad news - not information that we should have to make informed opinions about what our country is doing in the War on Terror. It used to be all the news fit to print. Now it is all the bad news we think will sell.

Take the case of Brian Chontosh. Have you heard of him? I'd be surprised if you had because the main stream media has ignored him. I did a search on The Boston Globe website and came back with ZERO matches to his name. Brian Chontosh is an American hero and is the same league as Audie Murphy and Alvin York and yet The Boston Globe has done zero stories on him. This is what Brian Chontosh did for his country in Iraq:

It was a year ago on the march into Baghdad. Brian Chontosh was a platoon leader rolling up Highway 1 in a humvee.

When all hell broke loose.

Ambush city.

The young Marines were being cut to ribbons. Mortars, machine guns, rocket propelled grenades. And the kid out of Churchville was in charge. It was do or die and it was up to him.

So he moved to the side of his column, looking for a way to lead his men to safety. As he tried to poke a hole through the Iraqi line his humvee came under direct enemy machine gun fire.

It was fish in a barrel and the Marines were the fish.

And Brian Chontosh gave the order to attack. He told his driver to floor the humvee directly at the machine gun emplacement that was firing at them. And he had the guy on top with the .50 cal unload on them.

Within moments there were Iraqis slumped across the machine gun and Chontosh was still advancing, ordering his driver now to take the humvee directly into the Iraqi trench that was attacking his Marines. Over into the battlement the humvee went and out the door Brian Chontosh bailed, carrying an M16 and a Beretta and 228 years of Marine Corps pride.

And he ran down the trench.

With its mortars and riflemen, machineguns and grenadiers.

And he killed them all.

He fought with the M16 until he was out of ammo. Then he fought with the Beretta until it was out of ammo. Then he picked up a dead man’s AK47 and fought with that until it was out of ammo. Then he picked up another dead man’s AK47 and fought with that until it was out of ammo.

At one point he even fired a discarded Iraqi RPG into an enemy cluster, sending attackers flying with its grenade explosion.

When he was done Brian Chontosh had cleared 200 yards of entrenched Iraqis from his platoon’s flank. He had killed more than 20 and wounded at least as many more.

On May 6th - Brian Chontosh was awarded the Navy Cross Medal for his actions in battle described above last March. The Navy Cross is just a step below the Congressional Medal of Honor and yet The Boston Globe thought fake pictures lifted from a porn site was more worthy of coverage than Brian Chontosh. They though allegations of a wedding party massacre were more newsworthy than someone like Brian Chontosh.

Doesn't it piss you off?

My second political observation for the day is more of a prediction. I predict that Seymour Hersh will go down in history as the modern day equivalent of James Callender (only Hersh is more partisan).