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• Monday, December 1, 2008 09:12 PM

  Holly McLachlan

  "Look, you need to do a better job of assessing your target audience before posting. This is not the tone or the type of information best designed to mitigate what you perceive as an attack on your client. It reads like you are just "dialing it in" by cutting & pasting a few paragraphs of pre-written, standardized boilerplate copied off one of your webpages.

  I suspect he pays for something more adroit than this.

  -- Holly McLachlan"

  And there in lies the problem. These lazy and highly overpaid media artists lack innovation and critical thinking and when the rubber hits the road all that is left is the pushing of the default button--the "general is a patriot, what can I say?" Picking up the usual defense mechanism-it is "the liberal anti-war unpatriotic left, what can I say" to diffuse any kind of credibility.The right will then pick it up and accuse those who criticise Gen. McCaffrey as unpatriotic, anti-military left. And before we can say presto, Gen. McCaffrey is back in business testifying before Congress as an expert in all things military, writing op-ed in WallStreet Journal. And Weirner looks like a genuis.

  Brian Williams gets the support of the right (a la Rush Limbaugh et al)and uses the enormous power he wields through the use of the mic to blast the so-called fringe left for assailing him and his good patriotic pal Gen.McCaffrey. And the beat goes on.

  —saman65 Read saman65's other letters
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