Massey Day 5: AP Uncorrected

With yesterday's NYPost editorial* that said, "[Jimmy] Massey, plain and simple, is a liar," AP's continuing refusal to run anything about Ron Harris' St. Louis Post Dispatch expose on Massey is getting hard to justify.

And in light of the dreadedly liberal Star Tribune ("Strib" to Northern Alliance listeners) picking up Harris' story, AP's hold-out in defiance against truth and objectivity becomes ... your choice ... disgusting or laughable.

Two sets of emails to AP by CSM remain arrogantly unanswered. The Dan Rather School of Journalism lives on.

* I can't find the NYPost editorial on-line, but here is an excerpt, courtesy of Nexis:

ANTI-WAR LIARS & THOSE WHO LOVE 'EM

It's easy to see why Jimmy Massey became an instant darling of the liberal news media: With his personal testimony that he and his fellow Marines, acting under direct orders, committed war crimes, he was the Iraq war's iteration of Jane Fonda and John Kerry.

And equally truthful.

Scores of media outlets rushed his claims into print, under such headlines as: "I killed innocent people for our government." He was a featured guest on National Public Radio, and college officials fell all over themselves in the stampede to invite him as a guest speaker.

Pretty soon, he'd published a book, "Kill, Kill, Kill," which was released in - surprise, surprise - France. And he became a star attraction on Cindy Sheehan's national self-pity parade.

Sure, the Pentagon insisted his allegations had been probed and discredited. But no one paid any attention to that.

Not until last weekend, when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that its own investigation showed conclusively that Massey, plain and simple, is a liar.

As the paper's Ron Harris reported: "Each of his claims is either demonstrably false or exaggerated - according to his fellow Marines, Massey's own admissions and the five journalists who were embedded with Massey's unit." ...

Massey, significantly, was discharged after suffering a nervous breakdown. In other words, he was what's known as a Section Eight - that is, crazy. ...

How much more proof is needed that the mainstream media are nothing less than shrill propaganda outlets for the Bush-bashing anti-war crowd, willing - almost eager - to undermine the efforts of America's fighting men and women?