Our Vichy Media

Decency is a word I throw around a lot when I write about the Left. It's the lack of that quality I deplore most about them even more than I complain about their untruthfulness. Truthfulness is probably the greater virtue. You can at least exhange ideas with an honest person, not so with a Leftist who can't even admit his bias nor frame an argument without resort to outright lying. Lying is a defense of the indefensible. A good example was the Democrat convention, pretending to be something they are not - rational.

Increasingly though, disgust is a word that springs to mind especially when I write about our media. That, and Vichy France where collaborators had more in common with the German invaders than they did their fellow citizens. We ought to start considering nominees and awarding Walter Duranty prizes for stories our Vichy Media willfully ignore for a greater cause.

If Vietnam was the first televised war, the war in Afghanistan is the first invisible one, at least on the media radar. It's a selectivity that does them no credit when they fail to agnowledge the dangers and successes or to illustrate the nature of the enemy.

In the latest incident, a bomb hit a vehicle carrying a mayor and a judge in central Afghanistan on Sunday, missing the apparent targets but killing three of the judge's children.

The children, aged 4 to 10, were in the back of the pickup truck when it was hit by a bomb attached to a bicycle in Logar province, local military commander Atiqullah Ludin said.

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