War caskets ignored by media with Obama in WH

Remember how the media focused attention on the war dead while George W. Bush was in the White House? Many newspapers showed running totals of the war dead - often on the front page.

And then came Nightline’s Ted Koppel (pictured) who read names of dead Iraq war servicemen. Reading the names occupied the entire expanded 40-minute news show. This was done to lesser degrees on other liberal biased TV programs.


Honoring the war dead seemed like a noble idea on the surface. However, honor was not their intent. The intent was to call attention to the war dead in a manner that would reflect badly on Bush.

They were playing politics with fallen war heroes.

Now that Bush is no longer in the White House, the media has lost interest in showing caskets of war dead or reading their names.


Two servicemen tend to flag draped caskets about to be unloaded from an Air Force plane at Dover, Delaware.

Until a couple of months ago they were still featuring information about servicemen killed while Bush was in the White House!

From the article at the link below:

"These young men and women are heroes," Vice President Biden said in 2004, when he was senator from Delaware. "The idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong."

In April of this year, the Obama administration lifted a 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.

When the first caskets arrived after press coverage was allowed there were 35 media outlets on hand to cover the story.

Two days later there were 17 media outlets there.

Fast forward to ... Sept. 2, there was just one news outlet -- the Associated Press -- there to record it.

The situation was pretty much the same when caskets arrived on Sept. 5, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 22, 23 and 26.

There has been no television coverage at all in September.

The press hordes that once descended on Dover are gone. The media had no interest in honoring the war dead.

The war in Afghanistan belongs the current president now and there is no media enthusiasm for reporting the increasingly high number of war dead on Mr. Obama’s watch.

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