There are few people more despicable and less credible in the American news media than Oliver North.
The right-wing darling of the Iran-Contra Scandal (whose perjury on a matter of national security was a patriotic act while Bubba Clinton’s on sex was cause for impeachment) has been reporting for Fox News from a place that he claims is Iraq.
In Ollie’s Iraq, the sun always shines, attacks on American troops are way down and the progress the U.S. is making to rid the country of meanies is breathtaking.
Why just the other day Ollie was on the blower from Ramadi, where he said that:
“ . . . we went with the Marines of 1-6, First Battalion, Sixth Marines, to look at a civil affairs project. Andrew Colon is a combat correspondent with the civil affairs group that is responsible for winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. It was interesting yesterday, because while we were out there, Iraqi troops — some character who apparently had been trained by the French, perhaps the French Girl Scouts or by one of your friends, Alan — took a pot shot at us. The outcome might have been different if he’d been trained to shoot by Dick Cheney, but he missed.â€?
Pretty funny, eh?
There just one thing that Ollie forgot to mention: A high-ranking Marine officer and two other soldiers who had just escorted North and his Fox crew to Ramadi were killed by a roadside bomb.
Editor & Publisher has the story here, which Fox apparently still has not reported.