Outing a liar: Hero Marine gets caught pulling a John Kerry (MT News)

Outing a liar: Hero Marine gets caught pulling a John Kerry
by Jim Kouri, CPP

When the Abu Graib story broke, thanks to Mary Mapes of Rathergate fame, the mainstream news media collectively hyperventilated. In fact, the venerable New York Times ran more stories about the abuse at that Iraqi military prison than any other news story in recent history.

The allegations leveled against the US military fit perfectly with the liberal media's view of American soldiers and intelligence officers: that they are brutal, ruthless killers and torturers. Even Democrat politicians appeared to become unhinged with their vitriol as they pointed to media reports regarding Abu Graib and, to a lesser degree, the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba military detention center. Senator Dick Durbin likened our military to Nazis, our detention centers to gulags, and our tactics to the killing fields of Cambodia. Senator Ted Kennedy complained the Saddam's torture chambers were under new management, meaning United States Arms Forces Management.

The news media practically celebrated their prowess at revealing the horrors occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan, even making up some stories such as the Koran being flushed down a toilet at Gitmo's military prison. Sometimes the blogosphere and talk radio caught the deceptions, other times they remained unrefuted. The idea of women's panties being placed on the heads of captured combatants even filtered into America's entertainment media. Most journalists appeared to equate women's undergarments used as sombreros with bamboo splinters shoved under one's fingernails. Of course, newsmen overreacted to this fashion faux pas because they prefer to wear their panties around their waists.

Then, like manna from heaven, they mainstream media's prayers were answered: they found Marine Sergeant Jimmy Massey -- or perhaps he found them. Massey confirmed the reporters' worst suspicions about the US armed forces. Or so they thought.

Massey, fresh from the battlefields and streets of Iraq, told reporters and anyone who'd listen to him that Marines murdering innocent Iraqi civilians. Also, Sgt. Massey described the atrocities that he and other Marines committed in Iraq.

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