Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Wikileaks 3: The Real Cover Up

The Media Research Center (Motto - "Join The Fight Against Liberal Media Bias!") are really pissed at all the pussy coverage of Bradley Manning.
'Today Show Portrays Wiki Leaker as a 'Teased' and 'Harassed' Victim of the Military'
"Instead of leading with how Army Private First Class Bradley Manning may have jeopardized national security with his document dump to WikiLeaks, NBC's chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, in his profile of Manning on Tuesday's Today show, told viewers he was the "most unlikely suspect, with a youthful smile" and portrayed him as an abused victim of the military. Miklaszewski used the New York Times' Ginger Thompson in his report to tell the tale of young man who apparently decided to avenge the abuse he had taken over the years, dating back to high school, by selling out his country."
And there's a wonderfully bonkers piece from Accuracy In Media on how the US media is covering up the fact that the Wikileaks traitor Bradley Manning is an openly gay pervert.
"As the Senate returns to Washington to debate such matters as the Pentagon’s homosexual exclusion policy, major media coverage of the disclosure of thousands of sensitive U.S. Government cables by WikiLeaks has curiously and conveniently ignored the homosexual orientation and anti-American motivation of the alleged leaker, Pfc. Bradley Manning, now in prison...
"What the [New York] Times left out of its coverage was that Manning was an open homosexual who flaunted the Pentagon’s homosexual exclusion policy without being punished for his behaviour and conduct."
Your liberal lamestream media at work!

Perhaps they have a point?
The Guardian today gives over a page to a profile of Manning, 'The Young Soldier Who Faces 52 Years In Prison Troubled soldier was arrested after apparently confessing to the leaks online'
It doesn't specify why he was "troubled".
Fagburn cannot find any mention of he's gay in The Guardian's extensive coverage this year. Why? He was out and it seems germane to his action.
There is a certain irony in The Guardian partnering WikiLeaks to publish classified information, but keeping this from its readers.
Excerpts from Manning's online chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo are here.

And finally... Amy Goodman interviews Noam Chomsky about WikiLeaks - transcript and video here.

No wait, there's more! A great piece by Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com; "As usual, for authoritarian minds, those who expose secrets are far more hated than those in power who commit heinous acts using secrecy as their principal weapon..."

6 comments:

  1. Several readers of US gay news site, The Advocate, think he "should be tried for treason"...

    http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/11/30/Wikileaks_Info_Stored_on_Gaga_CD/

    Scary.

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  2. Readers of Queerty today are asking for the "traitor" to be hanged.
    Nice.

    http://www.queerty.com/is-the-today-being-too-sympathetic-toward-lady-gaga-loving-leaker-bradley-manning-20101201/comment-page-1/#comment-374649

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  3. This doesn't surprise me at all.
    All the right wingers who stayed in the closet when it was easier to do so start to crawl out when the coast is clear and attack anyone who might tarnish their image of good gays who tow the line cap-in-hand. These are the sort of gays who attack camp men. And a gay man who was actually brave enough to expose the murder of innocent people in Iraq thus incurring the wrath of the US government (the same government that knew gay Iraqis were being murdered 15 months before this was reported anywhere )?
    Quick, hang him before we have to face people accusing us of being no better than him because we're gay!
    Disgusting.

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  4. Some of the comments under that Queerty article are sickening, cowardly bullshit.
    Makes me so angry.

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  5. Good to see gay men sticking up for him.

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  6. The Guardian finally mentioned Manning was gay - a post on Comment Is Free December 2nd 4pm, Bradley Manning Is Not An Argument For DADT

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/02/bradley-manning-wikileaks-dadt

    Odd!

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