Challenging the Fifth Column

I knew that the Main Stream media’s portrayal of the war in Iraq was negative at best, what I didn’t realize was how pervasive their reach is, until I visited with my in-laws for New Years this past weekend.

My Mother-in-laws’ husband is a wonderful man, a combat vet from Vietnam and an all around good guy. He loves the Military Channel and I have to agree with him it’s a great channel. A weekend they have been advertising a show coming up called “Iraq v Iraq” looking at how the country is the same now as it was after the first Gulf War and how it is different. It was a comment he made after seeing this commercial for the 15th time that day that got me worried; he feels that the current war in Iraq is a lost cause. It was then that I realized he receives all of his news about Iraq and Afghanistan from the MSM.

For those that feel the MSM constantly negative harping about Iraq isn’t hurting this country, all they need to do is look at this man as the example of what their negativity is doing to hamstring the war effort. A combat vet that still talks of his time in Vietnam as a worthwhile cause and who to this day feels we left way too soon, he now gets all of his news about Iraq from television news. To paraphrase a more recent Captain, “Mr. Lauer if I got my news from the mainstream news I’d be depressed too.”

How true that Captain was, for the MSM is driving their message home on a daily basis to millions of Americans who still view them as an objective provider of news. If it’s not on the news it must not be important they think.

How can we counter this assault? Quite simply we must take the fight to them; we must reach out to our unconnected brethren and show them the rest of the story. We must show them that the cause is not lost and not only are we winning the fight we must show then that it is a just fight. We must not be afraid to engage their ignorance on the War on Terror, even if they are trusted family members. We must be willing to show them that our Soldiers are not terrorists as Mr. Kerry would have them believe, or that the Military is a worthwhile profession contrary to what Mr. Murtha would have you believe. What we can not do is sit there with a smile on our face thinking there goes another moonbat, for that moonbat may just be you mother-in-law’s husband whom you respect quite a bit, and someone that could still do a lot for the War on Terror.

My challenge to you my friends is to do just that. Find a friend or family member that doesn’t know the truth and show them the light, and then simply ask that they do the same in return. We might just be able to counter this fifth column yet.