This column is absolutely right. For too long, liberals have perpetuated the myth that the military is filled with poor people and people too dumb to get in to college. It's not our occupation of Iraq that's causing people to not want to join the military, it's the liberal media. That's also why recruitment standards have had to be lowered - the liberal media has brainwashed the most intelligent people in to avoiding the military, leaving the less educated ones who don't subject themselves to media bias. All the talk about a lack of body armor and other equipment doesn't help - it's the media that's depriving our troops of equipment. What we really need is to shut down these cowards, so the army returns to its former glory, and college returns to its status as the place where hippies who couldn't join up go.

PersecutedChristian
The Washington Times is one of the few papers that dares to stand out against the liberal MSM.

It hasn't yet been forced to drink the kool aid of "journalism." The problem with the mainstream media isn't so much that it is intentionally biased, as that it gets confused too easily. You have liberals screaming about how the sky is falling, throwing out all sorts of facts - who knows if they're true? - and they just drown out the calm voices of conservativism. The Washington Times, and thankfully now the Wall Street Journal, don't fall in to that trap, trying to verify all sorts of questionable claims when what our leaders are saying makes perfect sense.