Blackfive points us to this amazing story in the London Telegraph,
Gazing through the telescopic sight of his M24 rifle, Staff Sgt Jim Gilliland, leader of Shadow sniper team, fixed his eye on the Iraqi insurgent who had just killed an American soldier.
His quarry stood nonchalantly in the fourth-floor bay window of a hospital in battle-torn Ramadi, still clasping a long-barrelled Kalashnikov. Instinctively allowing for wind speed and bullet drop, Shadow’s commander aimed 12 feet high.
Read the whole thing, it is amazing!
This article leaves me wondering, why do I have to read British newspapers to learn about the heroic actions that our troops are doing on a daily basis? Have you ever seen a similar story in a US media outlet?
Rich Lowry had this posted on The Corner and I thought I’d share,
Krauthammer on Fox News Sunday on all the “scandals” involving the War on Terror:
There’s a great irony here. Everybody has been asking of themselves for the last four years why haven’t we had a second attack, which everybody expected within weeks or months, certainly years. It didn’t happen.
And we knew about the external story. The war in Afghanistan obviously had an effect on Al Qaida. The war in Iraq has diverted terrorists and jihadists into Iraq as opposed to attacking America.
But what we’ve heard over the last six months with these revelations, these so-called scandals, of the secret prisons where high-level Al Qaida have been held, the coercive interrogation which is under attack in the McCain amendment, and now the NSA eavesdropping — we have the untold story which the administration could not tell. It knew why we had been protected.
All these defensive measures of gathering intelligence — we were always weak on human intelligence, and that’s why we had 9/11. And we don’t have good spies inside Al Qaida. But we had a means, technological, in the NSA eavesdropping, and also other means in capturing these terrorists, of getting information.
It’s worked. It’s held us safe. And that’s why I think in the end the president’s going to win the whole argument on presidential power.
On Christmas evening, Bill Roggio, an independent civilian military blogger at ThreatsWatch.org joined us on Pundit Review Radio for our Christmas Salute to the Troops. Bill was also kind enough to join us for an hour the next day as well as we filled in for John DePetro from 9-noon.
It was great to be able to bring Bill’s perspective as an embedded blogger to the huge daytime audience at WRKO. We touched on several topics that morning, briefly mentioning that Bill was featured that day in a Washington Post article about milblogs.
Well, it turns out that Bill has numerous complaints about the shoddy treatment he received from the paper. First, he fired back on his blog. Now he was written a further rebuttal at National Review Online which you should all check out,
Guilt by association. It is a common tool used to discredit those deemed a threat to the established order. Recently, I’ve found myself on the receiving end of such a tactic courtesy of a piece by Jonathan Finer and Douglas Struck in the Washington Post. Consider this one more reason to read alternatives to the Washington Post, where we report about the misleading little details, and let you decide.
Tonight on Pundit Review Radio we will take a look at the big stories of 2005 and highlight the impact of the new media.
Winter of 2005
We will take a look at the role of the new media in the Social Security debate.
Spring 2005
We had the Newsweek/Koran controversy. The heat that was placed on Newsweek by the New Media led to their eventually moving off their denial to a full apology.
This story impacted us directly, with WRKO deciding to fire Newsweek International’s radio program on Sunday evenings and replace them with a show by and about bloggers. What a delicious irony. Thanks Newsweak!
Summer 2005
What a busy season for bloggers. They played a tremendous role in two tragedies, the London bombings and Hurricaine Katrina. In each case, new technology and citizen journalists were providing the quickest, freshest information, perspective, survival stories and photos.
This summer we also had the Dick Durbin trilogy where he compared US troops behavior to that of the Nazi’s, Soviets and Pol Pot. The new media (blogs, talk radio, cable news) gave life to the story, moving Durbin from unapologetic to silent to tears on the floor of the Senate. We are looking forward to the Oscars this Spring to see how he does.
Fall 05
The big blog story of the fall was the Harriet Miers nomination for SCOTUS and the firestorm it caused among conservatives. While liberals accused the “right wing” of killing the nomination, the fact is there was a vigorous debate about her background and qualifications among conservatives. It was great for the party and something that does not happen on the other side of the aisle.
In the wake of Katrina, we saw the rise of Porkbusters, a grass roots initiative led by blogers like NZ Bear, Instapundit and Mark Tapscott (all former guests on Pundit Review Radio) designed to get politicians to give up pprk projects to help mpay for Katrina relief. The campaign picked up speed all fall. Click here to see which politicians joined and which said no.
In December, VP Cheney passed the tie-breaking vote on $50 billion in budget cuts. Without qiestion, Porkbusters played some role in this.
Winter 05
Right now law blogs are providing tomorrowâ??s news today on the upcoming Alito hearings. Subject matter experts, constitutional law profs, practitioners, partners at major firms, are providing their insight and analysis for anyone who wants to read it. When you do, you understand Alitoâ??s rulings and his judgment, and you have heard the background/context against the attacks will come. Every argument against Alito has already been hashed out on law blogs. What a fabulous resource for political junkies who are interested in such things.
Finally, we have two special awards to give out tonight
1. A SPECIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN AGENDA DRIVEN JOURNALISM TO
THE NY TIMES
2. A SPECIAL AWARD TO MILBLOGGERS IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR CONTRIBUTION OF BALANCED REPORTING ON THE WAR IN IRAQ, WITH SPECIAL RECOGNITION THE INCOMPARABLE MICHAEL YON.
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Pundit Review’s Salute to the Troops and their Families
Christmas Evening, 9pm EST
Streaming Live @ WRKO.com
This Christmas season we wanted to step back from the bitter partisan world of politics to give thanks to those who sacrifice so much to keep us so insulated and comfortable here at home. We will highlight soldiers and organizations that support them and their familes. So, after spending a day with your family, spend an hour on Christmas evening saying thank you to those who make it all possible.
Guest List
1. Walter Gaya, you may recognize the name. His heroics were chronicled on Michael Yonâ??s blog. A member of Deuce Four serving in Mosul Iraq, Walt was twice injured in combat. Hasnâ??t let him keep eye injury from his dream of being photographer. Learn more about Walt here.
2. Judith Young, Executive Director of Gold Star Mothers, an organization dedicated to offering support to mothers of soldiers killed in combat. This group has been doing this since WWII. Judith lost her son in Beruit in 1983. She will talk to us about how difficult the holidays can be for families, how the GSM can help, and how people listening can help fund their efforts.
3. James D. Weiskopf, the Director of Communications for the Fisher House. He will come on to give us an overview of the Fisher House, as well as information on how people can support their efforts (cash, donate frequent flier miles to families of wounded soldiers, etc).
4. Bill Roggio from Threats Watch will help us close the show. Bill has just returned from several months in Iraq where he did some of the best citizen journalism we’ve seen
Beginning Friday December 23, Pundit Review Radio has the honor of filling in for John DePetro, The Independent Man . The Independent Man is heard every weekday on WRKO from 9am-noon.
John’s show is “a daily three hours of newsmakers, conflict, and caller interaction.” It really is a great show, and we plan to do him, and his listeners justice.
We’ll get to cover such a wide variety of topics from breaking news to last minute Christmas shopping, Intelligent Design and the Top 5 Local Business Stories of 2005. Who knows what else? We may even have a special guest appearence from popular bloggers like LaShawn Barber. Stay tuned for more details next week.
9am-noon, Friday and all next week
You can stream the show live and call us with questions or comments at 877-469-4322.
Sorry for the late notice, but Brian Maloney of Radio Equalizer has been doing a great job all week filling in for Scott Allen Miller on WRKO’s Boston This Morning .
As always, you can stream the show live right here.
UPDATE: Brian is also guest hosting next week, every morning 5:30-9am.
When Brian was on Pundit Review a few months ago, he broke the news that Michael Graham had been fired from his job in Washington DC for controversial comments about Islam. Ironically, Michael has just taken over the afternoon drive on Boston’s other talk station.