Letter from a fallen soldiers Mother: Who do you side with the mother or the Reporter?

Question

Dear Michael:
I need your help to blast CNN. Please have us on your program....

As parents of fallen soldier, Sgt Patrick Tainsh, my husband and I allowed CNN to come to our home on Wednesday night to interview us after the President's speech. (We also met with President Bush at Ft Benning on Thursday) My husband, USMC Sgt Maj (ret) and I support our President and understand the importance of winning this war.

Upon his preparing to leave, although we knew the answer, my husband ask the reporter.,Bob Franken, why more negative than positive was shouted by the media (which is causing lack of understanding to the public of why we must win this war)...Franken, standing near our son's folded flag and Silver Star said " Where no house is on fire, there is no news, Where it bleeds it leads."

And when I replied to the reporter, "you mean you're willing to report negativity that feeds the insurgency which emboldens them and causes death to our troops and can cause death to us," he said


"Not our problem, we just report the fires. It's a democracy."



Well, Michael, now I'm reporting this soulless idiot to you.



I hope if Franken and all media persons who "feed death" are ever allowed into heaven, Patrick and all our other fallen give them all a good "... kicking" since it is the soldier that gives the media rights they take carelessly to the danger zone. And all the negative that is reported is adding enormous weight to the grief our military families carry.



Deborah Tainsh



Gold Star Mom, grief peer mentor, speaker, author : Heart of a Hawk: One family's sacrifice and journey toward healing



Midland, Georgia



(20 miles from Ft. Benning)

Answer 1

Bob Franken and his staff are working for the wrong news outlet, they should be with .Al Jazerre and all the other heartless reporters (propagandist) whose stories give support &aid to the slime-ball insurgents. God bless America and all our troops &fallen heros!

Answer 2

The problem is that the buttplg libs believe that everything they do is fair. Did you also read that the Group of 88, the idiot liberal professors at Yale have refused to withdraw their letter demanding that the LaCrosse players all confess their guilt, even though it appears that this whole thing was a lie? Their reson for not withdrawing the letter? they feel that they are standing up for the victims. In other words, the libs feel that it's perfectly OK to sacrifice the civil and human rights of others to support their boneheaded causes. they're dispicable and so is CNN

Answer 3

The 24-hour news channels are like watching a never ending reality TV show. I'm not sure if the majority of the time what they are spewing can still be considered "news". They pick and choose what is important to their ratings. More people watch when they are scared? Well let's show them stuff that really scares them. The majority of our watchers hate Bush and are against the war? Then we'll give them "proof" that they are right.

It's all a popularity/ratings game.

Answer 4

Quoted from an article about a fallen soldier. The "family did not want to discuss their sentiments about the war or the political debate surrounding President Bush's failure to find weapons of mass destruction, one of the prime reasons cited for invading Iraq last year."

Why must the media always put their negative opinions in the news?

Answer 5

a ludicrous media ploy. Makes Bush stupider than ever , by his trivializing of the conflict. His golfing interest replace into in all probability even worse than his Iraq approach, so he stopped taking part in with a view to maintain himself embarrassment. His subsequent steps might desire to be, to withdraw the troops, and renounce the Presidency. yet i does not carry my breath

Answer 6

The media are owned by Jews, and the result of that ownership is a general adherance to Jewish morals by the media's agents, such as reporters. Their only interest in our sons and daughters is how much money they can make off them, and if they can make more money by their deaths than by their lives, then they will do what they can to make them die. Simple, isn't it?

Answer 7

Thank you for sharing that with us, that's interesting that the media is so heartless when it comes to reporting news. Not surprising though, it is a business, not strictly a service.

Answer 8

it is breathtaking how people like that can act to people like her and her husband. the reporter obviously has zero decency.

this is supposed to be the party that stands for human rights? how can you stand for human rights when you have no human decency?

this world is falling apart around our ears. just because you CAN do or say something, it does NOT follow that you SHOULD do or say that thing.

Answer 9

that's a great way to sell books ....good publicity.. i think what we have here is a family that has to tell themselves that he died for a Nobel cause. because if they believed otherwise they would be so grief stricken that they might just loose their minds.
the soldier should be honored for doing his duty but the family should also be honored by being told the truth about why their son died..

Answer 10

I support the mother, but I'm sure there will be plenty of people making excuses for CNN.

It's disgusting, isn't it?