Caleb Campbell & Lion's Dilemma: He's a Recruiter & It IS About Troop Morale

Patrick Read by Senior Writer Written on July 24, 2008
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So maybe ESPN’s ignorance is just your typical on-the-job training of those wanting to merge with CNN's Ted Turner, which in itself is "TnT."

ABC is also partnered-up with ESPN, and is owned by Viacom who owns cable-wide networking for whom the broadcast avenue is made available to those who report "newsworthy events."  They tell us how bad or most recently successful the Bush Administration has been, but then glorify the war with shows like Generation Kill while young eyes watch in shock and awe.   

Ask a soldier how he feels if you can’t take a vets word for it.

The media’s job is to take your eye off the ball to make you forget the troubles and help you spend your money on its parent corporation and their sponsors. Happy consumers spend the most, and those that the corporations push into office give the best benefits to them.

Military Enlisted Numbers actually went up, in some cases by 156%, despite the War on Terrorism, and their Battle Fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq; and in lieu of rising death tolls, yet those at NBC and ABC report that the enlisted numbers are down.  THe military has not made some of it's current quotas because their golas are based on the previous years numbers and the highest amount of enlisted occured directly after 9.11.

Of course you will not hear that from Tom Brokaw of NBC, which is owned by GE, one of the largest of all military contractors; and polluters of the world who actually got tax breaks from the Democrat ruled Congress in 2001 to clean up the Hudson River which they polluted with PCB’s (not WMDs).  Needless to say The Sierra Club and the NY Times are not happy at all about it. 

These reporters on the war come off plainly like sympathetic humanitarians but will not report their own parent companies improprieties - which is of course hypocritical of the disingenuous pontificators.

You can visit the actual military websites "rather" than listen to glorifed boobs - at USAF, USMC, ARMY, and Navy to learn more about troop morale, Caleb Campbell and what the actual soldiers think and then you will not have to listen to what corporate reps want you to believe the soldiers think because you will know first hand, from the soldier himself.

 

 

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