A More Subtle, Yet Uglier Liberal Bias

Every time I hear about a US serviceman being killed in Iraq, my spirit sinks a bit, and my resolve to see this war through to its conclusion is shaken, at least momentarily. I think of parents or spouses I’ll never meet getting that phone call in the middle of the night, or a personal visit from some official in a very obvious government vehicle. I briefly imagine that it was my son or daughter. How would I feel? Would I still support this war with no end in sight?

But what I most resent, short of the deaths themselves, is the orchestration and manipulation employed to elicit precisely this doubt.

On a recent Tuesday, I read about a helicopter crew being killed when their
ship was struck by enemy fire. Both were recovered by Air Force PJ’s. The story reads
“Two Killed in Iraq Today”, in a sub-headline.

On the following Wednesday, three soldiers are killed by an IED in a town miles away. Minor sub-headline again, 'below the fold', as it were.

Then on a Thursday, 2 soldiers die in a common vehicle accident.

But the CNN HEADLINE for that day reads: “Seven More Dead In Iraq”, with the implication that it’s another seven killed beyond the five killed on the previous days.

I thought I was going nuts, reading about an identical helicopter crash to the one I read about two days prior. I thought ‘wow, twelve guys killed in three days, four of them in the same manner’.

Knowing the MSM cannot be trusted with the truth, I read three quarters down the story, where this shows up: ‘Two airmen were also killed on Tuesday’.

So now, CNN, and I presume other networks use this anti-war, anti-Bush tactic of double reporting deaths on different days, and compiling a misleading total as ‘news’.

Yet another reason to never trust the leftstream media.

Maybe CNN should start counting soldiers killed in Vietnam as also being killed in this war, since they're so convinced it's the same conflict.