General Sanchez: Round 2

Power Line now has a bit more of General Sanchez' assessment of the MSM up on its website, complementing material we dealt with in our previous post. Power Line decided to address the uppercase issue by lowercasing all the text before cutting and pasting. This does make for easier reading. If I get a chance later this weekend, I'll go back to our earlier post and do the same. Meanwhile, I wanted to post some of this additional material.

Early in his remarks, after singling out a few reporters in order to praise their integrity, honesty, and accuracy, Sanchez addresses the rest of the Stalinist horde and quite accurately describes their reprehensible conduct and behavior. Again, keep in mind, this transcript is verbatim, but lowercased by Power Line for ease of reading:

On the other hand, unfortunately, i have issued ultimatums to some of you for unscrupulous reporting that was solely focused on supporting your agenda and preconcieved notions of what our military had done. I also refused to talk to the european stars and stripes for the last two years of my command in germany for their extreme bias and single minded focus on abu gharaib.

Let me review some of the descriptive phrases that have been used by some of you that have made my personal interfaces with the press corps difficult:

"dictatorial and somewhat dense",

"not a strategic thought",

Liar,

"does not get it" and

The most inexperienced ltg. [Lieutenant General. --ed.]

In some cases i have never even met you, yet you feel qualified to make character judgments that are communicated to the world. My experience is not unique and we can find other examples such as the treatment of secretary brown during katrina. This is the worst display of journalism imaginable by those of us that are bound by a strict value system of selfless service, honor and integrity.

Indeed it is, but they don't care, General. As with their savaging of Brown, in the end, it's all about Bush—perhaps the most astounding pathology of sustained journalistic reductionism in, well, the annals of journalism.

Again, as per our previous post, it will be interesting to see how many of General Sanchez' remarks on the quality of press coverage—delivered to the press but thus far only reported in the conservative blogosphere—show up in the MSM over the next couple of days. Predictably, the media has led with the General's quite-harsh assessment of the political competence, or lack thereof, in both Congress AND the White House. What you will no doubt mostly see, however, is the General's pounding on the Bushies, perhaps a token sample of his poor opinion of the Congress, and probably nothing at all regarding his opinion of the press.

If the blogosphere is able to press this issue, perhaps this will change. If not, the media won't touch it. For, as the General states above, the MSM is solely focused on supporting [their] agenda and preconcieved notions. [Sic.] Which, last time I looked, is called propaganda. Or, at the very least, fiction.