12/10/2004

RUMSFELD SET UP; REPORTER PLANTED QUESTIONS WITH SOLDIER

Matt Drudge is reporting that the soldiers that asked questions in an effort to embarrass Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were plants from an embedded reporter.

As a local talk show host, Bruce Jacobs of KFYI, noted this morning - it is a good thing that Rumsfeld got the message, but the way that it was done is disgraceful.

It seems that the MSM is all about degrading this administration, even to the point of reporting anything and everything that makes this country look bad.

The reporter, Edward Lee Pitts, is crowing about his 'success' in an email that is posted on the Drudge website.

This isn't reporting the news...this reporter is making himself the news...and from everything that I learned over the years, that goes against all the ethics of news reporting.

DR