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Monday, November 14, 2005

Absolute Moral Authority Evaporates Again

Why is it that every ugly mug who, finding in our stilted press a bullhorn from which to spout the worst accusations against the United States, is eventually discredited? Those upon whom the likes of Maureen Dowd are wont to confer “absolute moral authority” eventually sit down and shut up in the face of overwhelming evidence that the United States’ mission in Iraq and elsewhere is right, good, and being honorably prosecuted.

Another one fell today—former Marine staff sergeant Jimmy Massey, whose accusations of war crimes and civilian slaughter have been embraced by the far left and the press. Turns out they were all lies. The editor of the Modesto Bee apologizes to readers. The Sacramento Bee does similarly. So does the St. Louis Dispatch here. The Arizona Daily Star recants, too. Even the radicals at Democracy Now! are murmuring ‘sorry.’

As Michelle Malkin notes, apologies from the Washington Post and the Associated Press do not seem to be forthcoming.

But that doesn’t much matter. They don’t owe an apology to their ever-shrinking audiences here in the States. They owe an apology to the United States military.

Posted on November 14, 2005 09:41 PM. Permalink