You may remember the apoplectic rage of Liberals over the Pentagon’s refusal during the Bush Administration to allow the press to take pictures of the coffins of war dead upon their arrival back home. The media accused the President of trying to hide the terrible human cost of waging war against an enemy that has no morals, at least as Western nations understand the term.

The Washington Examiner has an article that exposes the utter and outright hypocrisy of the media on this issue now that King Obama I is in office:

In April of this year, the Obama administration lifted the press ban, which had been in place since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Media outlets rushed to cover the first arrival of a fallen U.S. serviceman, and many photographers came back for the second arrival, and then the third.

But after that, the impassioned advocates of showing the true human cost of war grew tired of the story. Fewer and fewer photographers showed up. “It’s really fallen off,” says Lt. Joe Winter, spokesman for the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where all war dead are received. “The flurry of interest has subsided.”

Hmmm… what’s happened that might have caused this sudden disinterest in our war dead? Oh, yeah, that’s right, Mr. I’ll-Get-Us-Out got elected, I’d forgotten about that! And since the MSM (or “Lame-stream Media”) was in the pocket of their man Barack, do you think they’re going to ‘fess up and admit their mistake? When pigs fly!

Interestingly enough, things have gotten worse for us in Afghanistan since Obama took office:

So far this month, 38 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan. For all of 2009, the number is 220 — more than any other single year and more than died in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 combined.

Did you get that? More have been killed this year — which isn’t even over yet — than were killed in the first 3 years or so of the war. Does that give you any clue as to the “competence” of our “Commander-in-Chief”, a “Commander”, by the way, who has talked to the General in Afghanistan running the war exactly once in the last 70 days? And before I get any kickback about “chain of command”, if I were CinC, I’d want to get my information direct and unadorned from the battlefield.

The hypocrisy of the media in this case is simply amazing. We in America need to wake up and demand that the media be the watchdog that it’s supposed to be. Being a lapdog benefits no one but the President. The media’s role used to be “to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable”. They need to get back to it.

TD