No surprise from this chick ~ the Enemedia’s constant reporting on every terrorist incident is free PR ~ and as a result bolsters their morale and resolve. So says the New Media Journal in a piece called “The Incompetency of Jihad: Information Operation Failures.“

The impact of Information Operations has been detailed in a previous NGIA, Inc. In-Depth Analysis report entitled “Al-Qaeda’s Reality.” The attention the media gives to terrorist incidents unfortunately emboldens the terrorists. For the most part, AQ has a very effective message laden with propaganda that gets unprecedented airplay. To get this type of exposure, a company would have to spend millions. A careful examination of the media coverage reveals a redundant analysis of terrorist incidents and what they mean without questioning the terrorist’s message.

Ah! The Enemedia lives up to it’s name, does it not?

The infowar is not lost however ~ YouTube hirabists have been feeling the pressure. Thanks to YouTube Smackdown and others, they are finding that YouTube is no longer the safe, comfortable recruiting environment it once was. You’d think that since YouTube is a US company on US servers it would be a no-brainer. *eyeroll* If you’d like to help with this effort, check out these sites:

http://revengeofthekaizer.blogspot.com/
http://smackdownterror.blogspot.com/
http://gotwarporn.com/
http://muninn-quotheraven.blogspot.com/
http://stop-internet-terrorists.blogspot.com/
http://warintel11.wetpaint.com/

Never give up, never give in. And most of all, never forget.

At National Review Online, Mackubin Thomas Owns has written an excellent piece called “Justice?” I highly recommend reading it…

Appearing on This Week on ABC, Murtha also contended that the shootings in Hadithah had been covered up. “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long? We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.” When Alan Colmes asked Barack Obama about Murtha’s charge in June of 2006, Senator Obama replied, “I would never second-guess John Murtha . . . I think he’s somebody who knows of which he speaks.”

But a strange thing happened on the way to the lynching. The case against the Marines began to fall apart, and a deafening media silence ensued. Eight Marines were originally charged with offenses ranging from murder to dereliction of duty, but charges against six have been dismissed, and one has been acquitted.

*snip*

For insurgents, there is no more powerful propaganda tool than the claim that their adversaries are employing force in an indiscriminate manner. It is even better for the insurgents’ cause if they can credibly charge the forces of the counterinsurgency with the targeted killing of noncombatants. For many people even today, the entire Americans enterprise in Vietnam is discredited by the belief that the U.S. military committed atrocities on a regular basis and as a matter of official policy — even though, as Jim Webb has noted, stories of atrocious conduct, e.g. My Lai, “represented not the typical experience of the American soldier, but its ugly extreme.”

Hey Murtha, you owe these Marines and all military personnel and their families an apology and more. You can NEVER repay us for giving aid and comfort to our enemies when members of our community are risking their lives over there. You have blood on your hands. We will NOT forget.

According to World Net Daily, it looks like the honorable Marines who had their name drug thru the mud by dis-honorable Jack Murtha may be looking to sue him for libel and defamation.

When Fat Jack stood up there in May of 2006, jowls a-swinging, and declared that those Marines had killed innocent Iraqi citizens “in cold blood,” he had tried and convicted our honorable Marines without due process for all the world to hear. He gave an immeasurable amount of aid and comfort to our enemies. He is a traitor. For that, more than ex-marine Murtha’s jowls should swing.

Letter from Congressman Stark Criticizing Our Military

LETTER FROM REP. STARK TO SECRETARY GATES ABOUT POSSIBLE ABUSE OF MILITARY OFFICERS’ TIME

Below is the text of a letter sent today to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates by Representative Pete Stark (D-CA), regarding the possible abuse of military officers’ time.

May 16, 2008

The Honorable Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301

Dear Secretary Gates:

Yesterday, while voting on the war supplemental spending bill in the House of Representatives, I couldn’t help but notice a contingent of approximately 20 flag rank Army officers sitting in the House Gallery watching the debate and vote for a couple of hours. I was looking from below so I thought they were Army, but there could have been other branches present.

It’s possible they were on leave time or vacation. If so, I obviously have no concern. However, if they were doing this on military time, I want an explanation of why they were there.

At a time when our nation is at war, our troops are over-extended, and the Administration is literally asking for emergency military spending, what good to the “war on terror” is having US Generals and other top ranked officers - who were likely accompanied by staff and escorted by their chauffeurs - spending hours sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives?

Please provide for me the name, rank, branch, and duties of each of these officers, as well as the number of additional staff and drivers that were used to facilitate their attendance yesterday. I would like this information by Monday, May 19th.

If they were here on official duty, this was an abhorrent misallocation of our military resources at a time of war.

Sincerely,

Pete Stark

CC: The Honorable Ike Skelton, Chairman, Committee on Armed Services

CC: The Honorable Jack Murtha, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense

Stark, the coward, only accepts input from his district. It turns out that these military officers who were observing in the House Gallery that day were students from the Army War College according to the AP. Too bad the fine folks at the Pentagon had to take time away from the war to answer the petulant foundering of this traitorous coward.  I guess it made him feel like a tough guy to fire off that rant to the Pentagon.  Wonder what he was REALLY worried about?  Those mean old Army guys might just hurt him if he didn’t vote to fund the war.  After all they are just vicious.  I know - I read it in the New York Times!!!

UGH!

Dear Pete,

You mommy called.  It’s naptime.  Go home.

Gates

Today is the funeral of SSG Keith “Matt” Maupin. Over 3500 people attended. I wore a POW bracelet for Matt for the last 4 years. My arm feels a bit naked without it, and I am trying to formulate what I want to say to his parents in the letter I will write to accompany it’s journey to his parents. So far the words won’t come.

But today, some of the local TV stations did a great thing. They pre-empted their programming to cover the funeral. (Including the first game of the NBA playoffs, the PGA, and possibly the NHL playoffs.)

“The network programs are important and popular, but there is nothing more important than our commitment to local news,” says Les Vann, Channel 12 vice president and general manager.

Like I said, sometimes they get it right. Thank you!

Media General Inc. will take a loss in the first quarter as it looks to sell four television affiliates.

The corporate parent of The Tampa Tribune and WFLA-Channel 8 reported a net loss of $20.3 million, or 91 cents per share, compared to a $6.5 million, or 27 cent per share, loss experienced the quarter before. Revenue was down 10.9 percent from $218.3 million in the first quarter of 2006 to $194.5 million this quarter.

Looks like the Toronto Star is the newest enemedia outlet to be falling down. Everyone got their violins ready?

From FR….

VIDEO: Local (Everett) Iraqis Support War, Hope For Iraq
kirotv.com ^ | 3/19/08 | KIRO 7 Eyewitness News
Posted on 03/20/2008 2:47:23 AM CDT by USMC Brat
VIDEO: Local (Everett) Iraqis Support War, Hope For Iraq
Iraqis living in Everett see the five-year anniversary of the war as a time to celebrate the future of their country.

Related Video:
EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Local Iraqi man Ali Al-Faham explains support

WOW! But I thought that Iraqis “felt that the rapid buildup of U.S. troops in Anbar province and in Baghdad has made overall security worse, not better” and see the United States “through the filter of general antipathy.” Maybe the pollsters are skewed?

I dare you to read these three stories and tell me that you see no anti-American, anti-Troop bias oozing out at the Slimes…

US Nears 4, 000 Dead in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — Sometime soon, the U.S. military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in Iraq.

When the 1,000th American died in September 2004, the insurgency was just gaining steam. The 2,000th death came as Iraq held its first elections in decades, in October 2005. The U.S. announced its 3,000th loss on the last day of 2006, at the end of a year rocked by sectarian violence.

The 4,000th death will come with the war further out of the public eye, and replaced by other topics on the front burner of the U.S. presidential campaigns.

*blah blah blah*

Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey said during a recent speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York that the situation for U.S. soldiers in Iraq is ”infinitely better” now that during 2006, when Americans were losing the equivalent of a battalion — about 600 to 1,000 soldiers — a month to deaths and injuries.

But McCaffrey said the U.S. military is being drained of its energy and morale because of the slow pace of training that will allow more Iraqi soldiers to take over the fight. American soldiers, he said, are ”becoming increasingly unsure about the position they’ve been placed in.”

Iraqis Don’t Credit US for Safer Lives

The Bush administration has credited an increase of 30,000 troops for a decrease in violence, which it says has improved the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

In the poll, however, more than half the Iraqis, 53 percent, felt that the rapid buildup of U.S. troops in Anbar province and in Baghdad has made overall security worse, not better. Even those negative findings, however, were a sharp improvement since a similar poll last August. Then, 70 percent said the American buildup had made matters worse in the areas it had emphasized. Only 18 percent said it had improved their conditions then, compared with 36 percent now.

The nationwide poll found the Iraqis’ negative assessment of the rapid troop buildup came from all categories of respondents. Still, the poll responses reflected the overall improved assessment of conditions now as opposed to August, the month after the buildup was fully in place.

Regarding security, political dialogue, ability of the Iraqi government and economic development, 42 percent to 53 percent of the respondents found the situation worse. Those findings were down by 17 points to 27 points from the same questions eight months ago.

Poll organizers said such ratings reflect lingering negative feelings toward the March 2003 invasion.

”Direct ratings of the surge likely reflect the United States’ general unpopularity,” the poll’s writers said. When ”viewed through the filter of general antipathy toward the United States,” they wrote, the drop in negative sentiment is notable.

Now contrast….

What Has the Surge Really Achieved?

And here in the real world, the Surge seems to be responsible for, or at least linked to a wide variety of positive developments in Iraq. Sectarian deaths are down over 50% (more than 80% in Baghdad) compared to late 2006. Attacks on civilians are down over 50%. Attacks on Coalition and Iraqi forces are down 90%. Things are so much better in Fallujah, the former epicenter of Sunni insurgency, that there are only 250 US marines there, instead of the 3,000 garrisoning the city at the beginning of last summer.

If you don’t believe these numbers — and there is often good reason for skepticism about statistics from Iraq, whether they are the fantasy death tolls dreamed by Britain’s Lancet or the statistics collected by US and Iraqi authorities — then the data collected by anti-war groups like icasualty.org also seem to indicate a precipitous drop.

(Lots more at the link)

You can see this most depressingly in a widely cited article by Michael Kinsley which asserts that the Surge is a not a success because it has not ended quickly enough. Kinsley concedes, in a sarcastic tone that “the surge is a terrific success. Choose your metric: attacks on American soldiers, car bombs, civilian deaths, potholes. They’re all down, down, down. Lattes sold by street vendors are up. Performances of Shakespeare by local repertory companies have tripled.”

The irony is amusing in a way, though its implications reveal something ugly. For him the metrics are a joke. Either because he can’t imagine or empathize with the suffering inflicted by a marketplace bomb or an IED, or because the lives of Iraqis and of American troops simply don’t count compared to a rhetorical point scored against a hated President.

And the dinosnore enemedia wonders why people aren’t reading their papers?  Could it be because they are trying to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat?

The Slimes has figured out what’s going on.  It’s not the death of the old dinosnore media.  They are “embracing the changes being thrust upon them.“  They may be trying to make lemons from lemonade, but the fact remains that the staff at newspapers and other news organizations are shrinking daily.  The St. Louis Post-Disgrace let 60 people retire in September of 2007 without hiring new people to take their vacated positions and has just announced that another 31 people are being laid off.

“Although the Post-Dispatch is performing relatively well, especially compared with other metropolitan newspapers, we believe it is prudent to dial back our expenses modestly,” Kevin Mowbray, publisher of the Post-Dispatch, said in a statement.

So th SLPD is doing well compared to the others?  No wonder the Helen Thomases get their panties in a twist over the PajamasMedia.  They really ARE losing their jobs.  Of course, on their way out, the Slimes had to get in a parting shot…

In another unexpected finding, citizen-created Web sites and blogs are actually far less welcoming to outside commentary than the so-called mainstream media, the report said.

Yeah.  It’s ’cause you’re full of beans and we don’t let you get away with spouting your lies and biases without proof to back it up.  We’re unwelcoming?  Bite me.