Entertainment Story?

Carina Chocano (I almost typed Cochina for her last name, but that would be wrong) was given a few column inches to snipe at Army recruitment.

She does know she is the film reviewer at the L.A. Times, doesn't she?

To summarize her argument, these recruiters want to make military service sound like a great chance to improve yourself, learn skills, build character and serve your country, what a bunch of evil jerks.

They should be telling the deluded, testosterone fueled, poverty striken ,foolish, and misled youngsters that they will end up broken, soulless, disfigured or dead if they even for a moment consider military service.

(and did I mention that they included this in the Entertainment section?)

UPDATE: Guess I'm not the only one who noticed and was upset with the L.A. Times about this. Winds of Change puts things into perspective, Classical Values updates his post to add this to the litany of MSM attempts to disillusion our troops, and the Blogfather pointed the way to both of them. They offer substance where I only fight snark with more snark. I bow to their wisdom.

Okay, guess I'll attempt some substance, too, since I feel a bit sheepish for having gone for only sarcastic indignation. MSM/Liberals/and the people who quote them all are still very disappointed that a larger anti-war movement hasn't cropped up in light of the continued battle against terrorism. Their great hope and dream would be a reconstitution of the Draft (evidenced by Rep. Rangel and the hoax EMails that circulated before the '04 election).

I believe the movement to block recruiters from high school and college campuses and the complaints about tying funding to access that the NCLB bill included dovetail with this belief that a new draft is the best way to thwart pro-military sentiment. If recruitment is made so difficult that the only way to maintain an adequate fighting force would be through conscription then a whole new set of anti-war talking points would flourish. Putting a front page above the fold article in the L.A. Times Calendar section (where presumably they have a higher youthful readership than any other section) is just another front in this ongoing liberal offensive. Having a film reviewer write the article is a way to both say this isn't serious and the situation is so serious that opposition is welling up from all angles (just depends what spin you want to add to the article that day). The other bloggers were right, snark isn't enough to battle this sort of crap.

Luckily the alternatives to the MSM are flourishing, multiplying and standing vigil with a global satellite system of BS detectors that also have an offensive capability to shoot lasers of truth from space-based weapons platforms to disinfect the steaming loads of excrement like what Ms. Chocano unloaded on the Calendar section in today's L.A. Times.

UPDATE, Part TWO: Fixed links, tried the trackback thing, did something wrong, will have to do some reading to figure out what went wrong.