Tell me Lies: the MSM and Jimmy Massey
America’s soldiers have been the victims of Americans.
Jimmy Massey came back from the Marines in Iraq — he was there for the invasion — and told the world that our soldiers were butchers, torturers, monsters. He got some press, a bestseller in France, and he toured with Cindy.
In scores of newspaper, magazine and broadcast stories, at a Canadian immigration hearing and in numerous speeches across the country, Massey has told how he and other Marines recklessly, sometimes intentionally, killed dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians.
News organizations worldwide published or broadcast Massey’s claims without any corroboration and in most cases without investigation. Outside of the Marines, almost no one has seriously questioned whether Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged, was telling the truth.
He wasn’t.
Jimmy Massey lied. Jimmy Massey exaggerated. As the Post-Dispatch story linked above tells us: “The details of Massey’s stories changed repeatedly.”
This is a media indictment.
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The St. Louis Post Dispatch looks into this egregious media malfeasance.
Media outlets throughout the world have reported Jimmy Massey’s claims of war crimes, frequently without ever seeking to verify them.
For instance, no one ever called any of the five journalists who were embedded with Massey’s battalion to ask him or her about his claims.
The AP ran with his slanderous lies without even checking with their own reporter who was embedded with Massey’s unit in Iraq and could have refuted his tales. They did not ask for a response from the Marine Corps. Unverified, unchecked, they went to press with slanderous lies.
Some media did seek out comment from the Marine Corps and were told that an investigation of Massey’s accusations had found them baseless. Still, those news outlets printed Massey’s claims without any evidence other than the word of Massey, who had been released from service because of depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
These media outlets wanted to believe that American soldiers were brutal killers without compunction. And now, according to the above linked story, they’re looking back at what they printed and wondering why they did.
Here is the excuse of Rex Smith, editor of New York’s Albany Times-Union:
“Yes, it would have been much better if we had the other side. But all I’m saying is that this is unfortunately something that happens every day in our newspapers and with practically every story on television.”
Our troops have been vilified, we have been lied to, and this happened because the MSM wanted to believe that atrocities were committed by America’s soldiers in America’s name. They wanted to believe that President George W. Bush had created an unthinkable monstrosity.
This is a sickness. And it is sick.
