General Sanchez: Round 3

Silence is still the rule out in MSM Land, but more and more respected bloggers are weighing in on the Sanchez remarks that the MSM DIDN'T report. Or at least they haven't been forced to yet. (See our earlier commentaries here and here.)

Here's Captain Ed:

It seems that half of the message retired General Richard Sanchez intended to deliver missed the cut at most newsrooms, and with most bloggers. Typical among the reports of his blistering oration is the front-page treatment given by the Washington Post's Josh White, the entire first half of Snachez' speech -- found in its entirety here -- gets reduced to a single paragraph at the end of the story. Why? Well, it turns out that Sanchez considered his first target the media itself, which he blames for a large part of the problems he sees in Iraq...

The Captain then cites the General's comments, further edited into normal sentence case. He then provides the following trenchant observations:

...it seems highly ironic that the journalists covering the story attempted to cover up the acidic, biting, and mostly accurate criticisms of their own performance in this war while giving front-page treatment to Sanchez' criticisms of the political structure at the same time. If Sanchez has such credibility and standing to bring this kind of criticism to bear on Washington, why didn't the Post and other news agencies give the same level of exposure to his media criticisms as well? He basically accuses them of cynically selling out the soldiers to defeat American efforts to win the war, and made sure that those accusations came first before his assessment of the political failures, but you'd never know that from the Post.

Italics are mine, as Ed's point here is of the utmost importance. Let there be no doubt: the MSM, in conjunction with the Democrats, have been out to cause a significant American defeat in the Iraqi theater no matter what the eventual consequences.

Neither the Democrats nor their MSM allies can permit either the military or a Republican president to score a military success. To allow such a thing would deal a significant blow to their collective objective of diminishing our capitalist society to the point where it can no longer function. At which point, what's left of the U.S. can be subsumed into some kind of "one world" entity, which is essentially the left's replacement for the fallen Soviet Empire. This is a serious issue and one that Republicans could ride to victory in 2008. If any of them care to pay attention.