I wasn’t saying that a witchunt had occurred, I was asking the question, is that what happened in this situation? If you read my full post, you’ll see that, later in the post, I acknowledge that Eason Jordan has quite a track record of abusing his media voice and that you could reasonably conclude that he had this one coming.

You can lay out Mr. Jordan’s track record and make your case, and it’s a pretty convincing case.

Now the question becomes, are we, realizing the power we have to punish elements of the MSM if we don’t like what they say, going to create our list of journalists or media organizations that we are going to actively go after? I hope not.

Thanks for your comments.

David

Anyone who has a voice on the world stage and can either promote the cause of truth and justice or undermine it has a responsibility to do so. If Eason Jordan has evidence for what he said, out with it. We are a democracy and want to hold those who do evil accountable. If, on the other hand, all he can do is add fuel to anti-Americanism which undermines our cause and the safety of our troops in Iraq and elsewhere then he needs to be held accountable.

It should be apparent to all that there is one major obstacle in America’s success in any theatre in the world, the will of the American people. A major determinant of the cost to the US is world opinion, how many are with us, and how many are against us. I am not suggesting for a moment that “whatever the US does is good without question”, on the other hand, if France, Germany, and Russia were more interested in enforcing sanctions against Hussein and seeing and end to his tyranny than making their own deals with him maybe there would have been change in Iraq without an invasion.

If Jordan and CNN would have made the tapes available and either gave the evidence or uttered an apology I think he could still have his job. If he wanted to continue to mutter inuendo against the US and get away with it, he was out of luck.