The Media Masking of a Deserter [View All]

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The Media Masking of a 'Deserter'

By Ian Williams
MediaChannel.org

NEW YORK, July 13, 2004 - George W. Bush loves dressing up in uniform and being called commander-in-chief. You have to look to Saddam or Fidel for another head of state who spends as much media time before military backdrops.

He won't do town halls or even many press conferences, but something like a third of his statements in the previous 18 months have been delivered on military bases or to veterans' groups.

This would be bad enough, but the media is letting him get away with rank hypocrisy and worse.

He is abusing the military as movie extras, as well as car bomb-fodder in a PR campaign designed to show the American public that they need him, big tough W, to protect them from terrorists.

Peter Jennings' outrage over Michael Moore's use of the phrase "deserter" to describe a president who disappeared during his National Guard service is evidence that the charade is working.

It's an outrage that George W. Bush who went AWOL during a time of war continues to be allowed, by the US cooperate media, a free pass on this important story. The fact the George W. Bush deserted from "the Champagne Unit" after getting illegally installed by his father and jumping ahead in line in front of 200 applicants is a slap in the face to all the troops serving in Iraq. They deserve to be told the truth. George W. Bush deserted during a time of war. Which means he's asking them to do something he would NEVER do.