Who In the MSM Will Stand Up For Michael Yon?

It is more evident by the day that if you criticize anything about Obama's agenda you pay the price. McChystal is so much in Obama's hip pocket now that he sends the best war correspondent in Afghanistan to Thailand as he bans him as an enbed reporter in Afghanistan. Why? Looks like Obama didn't like the facts that Michael Yon was reporting so he banished him from Afghanistan.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the puppet behind McChystal is Obama -- must have been quite a dressing down McChystal took earlier from Obama when Obama summoned McChystal to Copenhagen while Obama was at the Chicago Olympic fiasco. So now when Obama says "jump," McChrystal says "how high?" There are times in a mililtary career, a general officer with honesty and integrity will stand up, but looks like McChystal is not one of those generals with his banning Yon as an embed reporter. Afghanistan has been going downhill since McChystal took over Command and it looks to be getting worse. Now we have lost the voice of honesty in Michael Yon.

This paragraph from Ron Futrell stands out and sent chills up the spine:

"If there is any time that the American public needs someone in country to give us an honest assessment of what is happening there it’s right now — and that man is Michael Yon. Are honest assessments something that makes this administration uncomfortable?"

There are no reporters left in Afghanistan who will speak the facts unless they decide now is the time to get some journalistic integrity and start reporting the truth instead of the Obama/McChrystal white wash. Our soldiers deserve no less than honest reporting.

It is looking more and more like Afghanistan has turned into political war with Obama and his advisors calling the shots -- shades of LBJ and Vietnam. We have zero confidence that Secretary of Defense Gates will stand up to Obama.

Obama/Gates/McChrystal and the National Security advisors with this action shout that they don't want the American people to learn the truth of what is happening in Afghanistan. The new Obama Rules of Engagement that Obama instituted is having our military fight with one hand behind their back while Obama has given the edge to the Taliban who are becoming stronger once again. Our soldiers are being killed in ambushes, sniper attacks, roadside bombs and any other way the Taliban can cause harm to our military. What happens? McChyrstal bans their one voice who was getting out the truth.

The mainstream media is slowly waking up to the fact they know little about the background of this man who is the President as he continues to freeze out the media but will they stand up for Michael Yon? We doubt they will go that far.

God be with our Soldiers in Afghanistan as they have now lost the one embed reporter who was not afraid to tell the truth about what happening which means Obama/Gates/McChystal couldn't keep covering up.

Who In the MSM Will Stand Up For Michael Yon?
Ron Futrell May 25th 2010 at 3:52 pm

The best war journalist of our time has been kicked out of Afghanistan and the media could not care less.

Let the administration boot Helen Thomas out of her seat in the front of a White House press conference and there would be outrage. Remove Jonathan Karl from the Capitol and media would revolt. Kick Andrea Kremer off Sunday Night Football and there would be pandemonium.

And yet nobody in the media seems to have much of a problem with Michael Yon being removed from the front lines by Obama/General McChrystal. Yon has openly stated the problems in Afghanistan right now and how we could lose this war, unless changes are made. He has been critical of the current rules of engagement that have put our troops in danger and could actually make this war like the Vietnam that the leftist media claimed it was early and often when Bush was president (it’s strange you don’t hear those comparisons from them anymore).

Yon’s reward? He’s lost his embed status, banished to Bangkok. Yon could return but his access might be limited and you can’t just pop in and out of that theater like it’s the neighborhood movie palace. Mess with Yon enough and his resources wear thin, but his patience will not. You will not stop this soldier. He is the ultimate warrior for those who fight and die for this country. His reports are honest, chilling, gripping and are as reflective of the battles they represent as anything I have ever read. But this administration is making it as difficult for him to do his job. You can’t believe this is by accident. The most critical battle in Afghanistan is about to take place, the battle for Kandahar, and the voice of the American soldier is not allowed in.

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Stand up in a show of force and find out exactly why Yon is not where he wants to be and where he should be right now. Yon has always offered his spot-on reporting and remarkable photographs free of charge to other media. They have taken advantage of that, rightly so. He survives on donations and is a truly independent voice in the war zone.

As we near this Memorial Day and we think of the ultimate sacrifice that has been given by those who serve, my challenge to the media who can’t wait to get to the Indy 500, the picnics at the parks, and the parades, is to man up and demand to know of this administration why the voice of the soldiers has been silenced in Afghanistan.

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