July 31, 2005

While The MSM Brings Us Body Bags, Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, And How The Word Hates Us - They Ignore What's Right With America And The Things That "Make Us Proud"

Can anyone please explain to me why the AP and CBS rush to bring us a phony fatwah story along with the image below on the right of a Muslim and a Crescent defaming our national symbol, but totally ignore the story behind the man and the image below on the left?

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(Image on left is the Navy Cross, via Bob Lonsberry and Mary Jones. The disgusting image on the right that defames our nation's flag and in effect, symbolizes an Islamic takeover of America, is from the AP and CBS)

Had I not received an email about this I wouldn't have known about it either.

"The odd fact about the American media in this war is that it's not covering the American military. The most plugged-in nation in the world is receiving virtually no true information about what its' warriors are doing." If it doesn't undermine the war effort and our nation's effort to keep Islamofascists from blowing us up and replacing every church and synagogue in America and Europe with a mosque, the press doesn't report it.

For those of you who might not know, the man on the left in the image below is the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and he is proud to know the man on the right.

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Meet Brian Chontosh, the man on the right; Churchville-Chili Central School Class of 1991, proud graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, husband and about-to-be father, First lieutenant (now Captain) in the United States Marine Corps, and a genuine hero.

At 29 Palms in California Brian Chontosh was presented with the Navy Cross, the second highest award for combat bravery the United States can bestow. And "That's a big deal." But you didn't see it on the network news that night. And all you'd have read in Brian's hometown newspaper is two paragraphs of nothing.

All we get from the likes of the AP, CBS, and most of the MSM is a "non-stop feed of gloom and doom," but we get nothing about our progress in Iraq and on the War on Terror, and worst of all, we don't hear about our American heroes, the guys fighting and dying in the crotch of the world so all of us can continue on with our lives and the MSM can continue it's anti-military, anti-administration, anti-American, ostrich-imitating rants.

As Bob Lonsberry writes in the tribute to Capt Chontosh, "Accounts of American valor are dismissed by the press as propaganda, yet accounts of American difficulties are heralded as objectivity. It makes you wonder if the role of the media is to inform or to depress - to report or to deride. To tell the truth, or to feed us lies."

And as for our incredibly brave GIs who honorably do their duty, the ones "our grandparents would have carried on their shoulders down Fifth Avenue," well, we never hear anything from the media about them, and because of the MSM's failure to report what's right with our country, guys like Capt Brian Chontosh go completely ignored.

It was a year ago on the march into Baghdad. Brian Chontosh was a platoon leader rolling up Highway 1 in a humvee. When all hell broke loose.

Ambush city.

The young Marines were being cut to ribbons. Mortars, machine guns, rocket propelled grenades.

And the kid out of Churchville was in charge. It was do or die and it was up to him.

Thanks to journalist and broadcaster Bob Lonsberry and Mary Jones, you can learn all about how Capt Brian Chontosh won the Navy Cross in this beautiful tribute.

Hat tip with extra thanks to Red Falcon at The Steiner Aid, who posted on this story back on June 28.

Cross posted by Hyscience
Semper Fi! From one Marine to another.

Posted by: Richard@hyscience at 05:20 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
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1 I haven't seen/heard anything about this, aside from Lonsberry, locally here in Rochester. I could be wrong; but if the local media has mentioned it, it got by me. Disgusting that they ignore things like this.

Posted by: BorgQueen at July 31, 2005 05:33 PM (AxlwF)

2 The media is truly the enemy!

Posted by: jesusland joe at July 31, 2005 06:12 PM (DDXXI)

3 The people have spoken and Downing Street Memo accepts majority rule. DSM now leaves Jawa Report permanently per your wishes.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 31, 2005 06:17 PM (ScqM8)

4 Don't be a little pussy, DSM. You leave when you get banned.

Posted by: Carlos at July 31, 2005 07:17 PM (8e/V4)

5 Gung Ho! Get some Jarhead! Killed 20 in one battle. Never hear that on the MSM/DNC. All they want to have on is Ted "Quagmire" or Dick NAZI. The Navy Cross is an extraordinary honor. Gung Hooooooooo! an old exJarhead.

Posted by: Rod Stanton at July 31, 2005 07:39 PM (Z6yVb)

6 Your post is exactly why so many Americans are finding, reading and sharing the "real news" that blogs post and why the MSM is losing credibility more and more...... Thank you for sharing this true American with us. Keep up thegood work. Cheryl

Posted by: Cheryl at July 31, 2005 09:40 PM (4r1wG)

7 For excellent reportage on the war go to http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/ . This guy is totally independent, went over to Iraq on his own to specifically cover the war. He is embedded with the 24 and writes with a wonderful style. It tells of what the soldiers do, but by a non-soldier.

Posted by: Bill at July 31, 2005 10:12 PM (WwtVa)

8 Of course the MSM lies. For the reality: http://tinyurl.com/azwqe

Posted by: TheRidge at August 01, 2005 01:41 AM (RaZ4B)

9 Where can you find the link for the context in which the American flag with the symbol of the moon god on the blue background? I looked around AP and CBS and couldn't find it.

Posted by: CDR Salamander at August 01, 2005 07:37 AM (PJ4Iq)

10 DSM will surely return. He can't find anyone in lefty blogland to give him any passionate stimulation of his grey matter. Ha! Hope to see you soon, my Australia friend. See, I've changed, and the only thing I want is for you to come back without the personal attacks and animosity.

Posted by: jesusland joe at August 01, 2005 09:30 AM (DDXXI)

11 Hyscience, it's really sad that this story didn't get broader play. Kyer, otoh, had up the Lonsberry tribute about a week or so ago, which I linked as well - Chontosh is amazing. When will Nightline, 60 Minutes or some other news magazine talk about the heroes who dedicate their lives to the service?

Posted by: tee bee at August 01, 2005 12:17 PM (q1JHF)

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