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shamelessly disparage those who work in private equities as immoral corpo- rate raiders and avaricious job-killers, as the three aforementioned GOP Oc- cupiers have done. If they keep it up, they’ll soon be chaining themselves together with bike locks, performing “mic checks” and “down twinkles” at the next GOP debate. Gingrich has pushed


McCain’s profit-bashing line the furthest. Backed by a super-PAC (the very campaign finance vehicle he was whining about last week) flush with $5 mil- lion from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the ven- detta-driven former House speaker accused Romney


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Abu Ghraib and Newsweek magazine’s phony 2005 story about a Quran’s be- ing flushed down a toilet at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, blanket criticism of U.S. military personnel quickly goes global. In Kabul, Afghani- stan, before the nationality of any of the apparently dead enemy combatants could be confirmed, Presi- dent Hamid Karzai ac- cused “American soldiers” of “desecrating dead bodies of three Afghans.” From neighboring Paki-


stan, Taliban leaders -- who never have denounced the murder, torture or behead- ing of a single Christian and have killed thousands of innocent civilians with roadside bombs -- con- demned the video as “bar- baric” and claimed: “No religion that follows a holy text would accept such conduct. This inhuman act reveals their real face to the world.” Absent from any of these oft-repeated excerpts is


and a “handful of rich people” of “looting” com- panies. Channeling left- wing propagandist Michael Moore, Gingrich railed that Bain “manipulate(d) the lives of thousands of other people.” Gingrich -- who raked in millions consulting for the taxpay- er-subsidized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac racket -- also served on the advisory board of private equities firm and leveraged buyout experts Forstmann Little. But, hey, it’s only “loot-


ing” if it doesn’t line your own pockets. Romney’s chronic flip-


flopping political career is teeming with reasons for grass-roots conservatives to oppose his nomina- tion -- from his support for racial preferences and government funding of abortion, liberal judges,


any recognition that the video in question appar- ently involves just four individuals -- five if you count the person holding the camera. Yet even be- fore the perpetrators in the video could be identified by the Marines, the entire U.S. military is indicted once again by media elites for the egregious deeds of a few, without mention that such acts never are condoned by any American commander. Prolonged commentary


and repetitious reports on what investigators now call the “urine incident” have also spiked and displaced stories that warrant exten- sive coverage. Where are the in-depth “good news” reports on U.S. Navy sail- ors and Coast Guardsmen putting themselves at risk to rescue Iranian seamen from pirates and a sinking vessel? With Tehran racing to acquire nuclear weap- ons and threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, weren’t Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visits this week to Venezu- ela, Nicaragua and Cuba worth more attention than a brief mention? In these perilous times, doesn’t it matter that preparations are under way for “Austere Challenge 12” -- the larg- est and “most significant military exercise ever con-


global warming enviro-nit- wittery, TARP, auto bail- outs, the Obama stimulus, gun control and, of course, the Massachusetts indi- vidual health insurance mandates that presaged Obamacare. But instead of focusing on his long politi- cal record of expedience, incompetent non-Romneys have borrowed from Mc- Cain’s 2008 playbook and thrown wealth creators of all kinds who take risks in the private marketplace under the bus. With frenemies like these, who needs Democrats?


Michelle Malkin is the au-


thor of “Culture of Corrup- tion: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is mal- kinblog@gmail.com.


ducted by the U.S. and Israel”? These important events


received scant notice in the hysteria over “the video.” This indicates an absence of judgment and perspec- tive by those who deter- mine what’s “newsworthy” in today’s “instant news” environment. Members of the mainstream media inevitably overhype any negative story -- true or false -- about even a single member of the U.S. armed forces and tarnish all who serve. This blatant anti- military bias is especially evident when producers and editors repeatedly make such atypical events the “lead story” and accord these rare incidents head- line treatment for days on end. They must know that demonizing our troops with such nonstop “coverage” is far more effective at de- moralizing a nation at war -- and destructive to those who fight it -- than losing any battle.


Oliver North is the host


of “War Stories” on Fox News Channel, the founder and honorary chairman of Freedom Alliance, and the author of “American Heroes in Special Operations.”


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