Column on Ollie North Yucking it Up-Not Mentioning Marine Escort's Death

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.attytood.com/2006/12/fox_news_ollie_north_yuks_it_u.html

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Now, it should be noted that North did not ignore the incident altogether. He mentioned it in a syndicated newspaper column that he writes, sent out on Dec. 8, before McClung's identity had been made public. The column is headlined as "Winning the War." Here's what he wrote:

"A proffered hot cup of coffee was gratefully accepted as the Major helped us load our backpacks, camera gear and satellite broadcast equipment aboard a dust-encrusted Humvee. Just hours later, this widely respected and much admired Marine officer and two brave U.S. Army soldiers were dead, killed by an IED -- an improvised explosive device -- the insidious weapon of choice for terrorists in Iraq."

A tad cold, but it's something -- something that was seen by a handful of newspaper readers (I didn't even know that Oliver North wrote a syndicated column...did you?) but not shared with the millions more who watch the Fox News Channel, which is not only still the highest rated cable news operation in America but is the prime source of news, especially about Iraq, for many of those viewers.

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The mentions of "lethality" and "deadly" were North's concessions to "journalism," I guess. But apparently North didn't consider it newsworthy that the vibrant young women who's given him a cup of coffee and helped macho-man North with his heavy backpack had died a horrifically violent and premature death. That fact, so dramatic and so heart-wrenching to anyone with a heart, would have completely overshadowed and in fact ruined "the story" that North had been sent to Ramadi to "report," that on the whole things are getting better in Iraq.

Equally appalling, maybe more so, is the way that the inconvenient truth of McClung's death just completely plunged into the memory hole of Fox News Channel. The highest ranking woman to die in combat in Iraq was considered big news in many other places, including on competitor CNN.

[luckyleftyme2]

1. IT'S A SHAME THEY GIVE THIS POOR EXCUSE RECOGNITION

HOW DOES THIS SLIME BALL ALLOWED TO GET PRESS? I MEAN REALLY HERE'S A MAN THAT DOESN'T HONOR
OUR MILLITARY ONE IOTA!
IRAN CONTRA? WEAPONS FOR DRUGS? ILLEGAL ACTS OF WAR!
HE SHOULD OF BEEN SHOT!

[Fridays Child]

2. Megan McClung would still be alive, had she not been tasked with escorting North.

I wonder if that dung ball of a human being has lost any sleep over it.