Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

I have a friend who was on that and was fortunately one of the rescued Marines. He was enlisted then, and is now a major. Good guy, but seems to have tragedy follow him (that crash wasn't the last bad thing in his AO).

 

Last night

and this evening, About 2 1/2 gallons of brass...Thanks rich guys!

 

Today's "journalists" can't carry Edward R. Murrow's jock strap.

 

March 9, 2004, marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most courageous moments in journalism – the airing of the CBS TV See It Now episode in which Edward R. Murrow exposed the deceit, bullying, and manipulation of the then-powerful Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

In the 1954 broadcast of “A Report on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy,” Murrow gave ample voice to the most effective critic of McCarthy’s power and credibility – McCarthy himself…

To compile this piece, Murrow’s crew recorded and collected recordings of McCarthy’s speeches, hearings, and other public appearance, and thus let McCarthy politically hang himself with his own words. The artfulness here was that Murrow did not resort to splicing together out-of-context sound bites (as is often the case with tabloid broadcast journalism today), but rather extensive quotes.

Also, Murrow chose not to quibble on the details of McCarthy’s accusations – such as how many communists might really be employed by the US State Dept. Such a strategy would have left the Red Scare debate firmly in McCarthy’s hands. Rather, Murrow went right to the heart of the issue: That McCarthy was deliberately manipulating and exacerbating public fears of Communism in order to consolidate his personal political power.

Change Communism to terrorists... and add that the press is in bed with the power mongers and you see how far the press has fallen - from speaking the truth to hiding the truth....

 

This. This one keeps stickin' with me...

 

Seems like a misplaced sense of safety to me on the part of the youths. The soldier's legs have no bullet resistant properties, and standing adjacent to a bullet magnet doesn't seem to me to be a sensible idea.

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And inevitably, the US military will be accused of using children as human shields.

 

Yes Rupert Murdoch has vastly improved the media's standards of quality journalism....Faux News is a stellar example of his journalistic standards trend setting.

 

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