One thing I noticed after I began closely following McClatchy and the elite media is how often they give each other awards and accolades. Usually the organizations handing out these awards are left-wing groups. And the recipients usually work for media outlets that are collapsing. The latest example is McClatchy's DC bureau chief John Walcott. Walcott is the first recipient of the "I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence." Walcott is being recognized for "for leading his team of reporters in their probing, skeptical coverage of events during the run-up to the Iraq war at a time when most U.S. news organizations failed to question the motives and rationale for the invasion of Iraq."
Do you doubt this group (headquartered in Cambridge, Mass) is a group of lefties?
Walcott is a darling at PBS and the Huffington Post due to the anti-Iraq war articles produced at McClatchy.
Less well-known is Walcott's 2007 prediction that the US would lose the Iraq war.
Here are details about Walcott's prediction. Walcott delivered a speech in Hilton Head, South Carolina during February 2007. In the speech he predicted the US would not win the Iraq war. You can read Walcott's entire speech here. Check out this quote:
"But still we are not winning, and we cannot win."
And later in the same speech:
"But I think that we're in the mess we're in Iraq - can't win and can't afford to lose...."
Walcott was dead wrong about the ability of the US military to win, since the US has all but won. But it's not a positive sign that the media gives awards and accolades to defeatists like John Walcott. (Photo via McClatchy.)
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