Balance?
Perhaps because they felt a need to “balance” coverage of Mrs. Sheehan, Day to Day aired this Mike Pesca report: Military Families React to Sheehan’s Iraq Protest.
I don’t want to pick on them but, serving members of the military are required by regulation not to express political opinions. Your career can be ended by saying the wrong thing. People have already lost their jobs by being “outed” as serving members while making less than complimentary statements about the conduct of the Bush administration.
You can support the President all you want in uniform under these people, but be negative and you are gone. It’s not exactly a surprise that families of serving members rarely say negative things about the current crew.
If you look at the news page at Marine Parents, you can see that they have been Bush supporters and frequent media guests. For the spokeswoman to complain about Mrs. Sheehan “going public” is rather hypocritical.
The could have interviewed Military Families Speak Out, about the situation, but that wouldn’t have provided the “balance” they were looking for in this piece.
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Airborne!
CNN reports that a veteran has again answered the call.
Fred Mattlage said he hopes the new site will alleviate traffic.
The site is owned by Mattlage’s brother Mark, who gave him permission to offer the land. Mattlage, his two brothers and sister own a 212-acre lot adjacent to the one-acre fenced property.
Mattlage said the family will allow the protesters to park their cars on the larger lot if they provide a gate attendant to ensure cattle do not escape.
Mattlage, who served with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division in the 1970s, said he is against the war in Iraq and is concerned the United States “didn’t learn a valuable enough lesson from Vietnam.”
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