Extreme Media Blood Libel Spree Spreads

Eason Jordan...Eason Jordan...please call your attorney, because you've just suffered gimmick infringement:

The president of a group representing reporters worldwide is accusing U.S. soldiers of committing atrocities without offering any evidence to back the charge up.

Appearing in St. Louis on Friday, Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley complained:

"What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there’s not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq."

In case anyone missed the point, Foley restated her allegation:

"They target and kill journalists ... uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity. ..."

Foley's remarks, which were aired Wednesday night on Sinclair Broadcasting's The Point, drew outrage from the program's host, Mark Hyman.

"These completely irresponsible remarks speak for themselves," Hyman told his viewers. "Foley should immediately deliver evidence that supports her horrible allegations or she should immediately resign as Newspaper Guild president."

The Sinclair host added: "Unfortunately, the damage may have already been done. Her remarks could lead to further bloodshed, including against Americans."

Make that "will." You can pretty much guarantee it.

Say Anything, BTW, has the video. No complimentary Nerf monitor bricks, though.

Captain Ed picked up on the story today:

Foley should either present her evidence or resign her position. She's not as important as Eason Jordan or Mark Whitaker, but she's a symptom of a larger disease in American journalism. The threshold of publication for allegations has been lowered past "single sourced" to "sounds like it could be true", especially when it comes to covering the American military.

For my part, I pretty much said it all last night (which was echoed by Rush Limbaugh this morning):

Left-wingers today are like the Jem'Haddar going through ketracell-white withdrawal. For the former the drug is power, and it's only now, after a decade in the political wilderness, begun to dawn on them that they're not likely to get it back any time soon. As a result, they're, quite bluntly, going berserk. And the Extreme Media manifestation of it is functioning as the Stateside affiliate of al-Jazeera.

Pity this sustained raging temper tantrum isn't taking place in a vacuum, or at least a time of peace and quiet abroad. As it is, such seditious rhetoric cannot have any positive results for our interests, allies, nationals, or service personnel abroad. And as history teaches, there's a reason why sedition has oftentimes been severely curtailed during wartime.

It's like that old gambling chant: "Spin the wheel, round she goes, where she'll stop, nobody knows."

Linda Foley is just the latest turn of the wheel.

LaShawn Barber is Grand Link Central for this one.