Peter Jennings

While rock stars thow a concert every 10 or 20 years to demonstrate their generosity, news anchors write books to demonstrate their love of country.

It's always sad when someone dies, and heartfelt sympathy to the family of Peter Jennings for their loss.

Honesty, however, forces me to acknowledge that while anchors write about The Greatest Generation, much of the MSM were, and still are, the Traitorous Generation. That's the one where love of country is subservient to their own ambitions, sharing a view of the world as multicultural and politically correct, with a distinct preference for internationalism over home pride. They are the generation who honestly see no difference between the Soviet Union and the United States. Saddam Hussein killed tens of thousands of his own people with hundreds of thousand casualties and a brutalized population and the Traitorous Generation are unable to condemn him for fear of someone misinterpreting judgement as pro-American. They loathe the military without knowing a single person in it. They have nothing but contempt for middle America without knowing any of us either. I can live with all that. What I find despicable is what it did to human lives.

Mr. Jennings died, I am sure, with his family surrounding him. Free of pain or discomfort. My cousin died two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was Hungarian. He never smoked, but had throat cancer and Soviet medicine. He had little hope for effective treatment, died at home, without hospice care, few drugs to ease his pain except those we could mail to them. He was 54. One of the joys of his life came after the fall of communism when he could read his own country's history.

He and his wife craved factual information after a lifetime of lies. They devoured travel books about places they would never visit, just for the wonder of reading about a world they couldn't even dream about under communism. Ivan lived his whole life, except for two short years, under communism. The Traitorous Generation couldn't find the moral courage to join that battle either. If they had, perhaps Ivan might have had more than those two years to savor free air.

I have nothing against Mr. Jennings. I am sure he was a fine person. I am sure each his four wives thought so, too. He anchored the news for decades in a country he owed so little loyalty to that he didn't even take out citizenship until 2003. And, even then, it was a dual loyalty. He maintained Canadian citizenship.

In the end, he will be judged by his choices. That so many, many people had to suffer because of the willful neglect of The Traitorous Generation is something that none of us should forget. We should thank God every day that we are not Cambodian. Or Zimbabwean. Or Ugandan. Or Rwandan, all of whom depended upon the MSM to give voice to their plight and were betrayed by The Traitorous Generation, killed by evil unacknowledged to this day by the Peter Jennings of the world.