Toby Harnden enquires whether...
Anyone surprised that a left-wing 'community organiser' whose party machine put him in the White House would assume the worst of a professional soldier who, the West Wing would doubtless assume, didn't vote for him anyway? Love this... anyone in the White House even inquired into whether the profane and juvenile quotations about civilian officials were really on the record or if they just took Rolling Stone’s word for it.If they didn't, think about what this means: it means that the Obama administration accepts the word of a counter-culture magazine and doesn’t even bother to check with the four-star general commanding 100,000 troops in wartime whose career the magazine is seeking to destroy
Well, it seems like Gen. McChrystal has become a victim of a journalism without ethical standards. If what Tony Harnden revealed was all true, then Rolling Stone's practice of journalism is indeed shameful and the plight of Gen. McChrystal is pitiful. If this is the case, then I wonder: Did Obama decide and act objectively?
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