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| 2006-06-09 |
| (2nd item) Conservative filmmaker Patrick Dollard, a former Hollywood agent and manager, is working on a major documentary highlighting the heroism and bravery of U.S. Marines and soldiers in Iraq. The series is expected to counter much of the liberal press' view of the war and the troops fighting it. Mr. Dollard tells us he spent a total of seven months in some of the hottest zones in Iraq and was nearly killed in an improvised explosive device attack on a Humvee. "I was going because it was obvious how left-leaning and biased the coverage of the war was, and because I wanted to get to know what was going on over there, and what these American kids, who I felt were making the world a much better place, were all about and what they thought about what they were doing," Mr. Dollard said. He covered military operations in Fallujah, Ramadi and the Triangle of Death south of Baghdad and, unlike most journalists, stayed only about a half-day in the secure Green Zone in the Iraqi capital. Mr. Dollard, who once represented cutting-edge Hollywood director Steven Soderbergh, said he was shocked at the anger most U.S. troops feel toward the press for misreporting the Iraq war. "Not only were the media not reporting the good news from Iraq, but they wouldn't even lift an intellectual pinky to analyze for America how important to the world's security a victory in Iraq is," he said. "Most journalists I met were anti-Bush, and could barely contain their hope for an American loss in Iraq that would sway the next elections to the Democratic Party. And when I taped several Marines and Iraqis telling me stories about outright lies and false quotes by some very big American media players, I got really, really mad." Hollywood has not warmed to Mr. Dollard's project, and he was the subject of a critical New York Times report. His 600 hours of tape are being developed into a major series of reports for cable television. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 It's been a long time since we had a good ol' "hurray for America" war movie! I think I may even go and pay full price to see this one at the theater. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-09 22:56 |
| #1 Let the downfall of MSM begin. Let the perfidy be revealed. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-09 18:58 |