Egregious Media Lies

Charlie Wilson and Tom Hanks

"Media Bias: Hollywood would have us believe that Democrats defeated the evil empire in Afghanistan, and that President Reagan played only a minor role and even helped pave the way to 9/11." Actually, it was just the other way around. Charlie Wilson was a "playboy politician" and continues to be a playboy. His efforts were only peripheral in doing what it took to defeat the communists in Afghanistan while Reagan and The Pope led the way. "Charlie Wilson was a pro-abortion, Equal Rights Amendment-supporting congressman widely known as 'the liberal from Lufkin.' To his credit, he did play a role in facilitating support to the Afghan mujahadeen. But it is he who should be the historical footnote. It was Ronald Reagan, not Charlie Wilson, who gave the order to provide the mujahadeen with the Stinger missiles that denied the Soviet air supremacy and turned the tide of battle after 1986. Yet in the movie, the likes of Dan Rather and Diane Sawyer (director Mike Nichol's wife) are more prominently mentioned. To be fair, the movie doesn't mention Jimmy Carter either. It was his naiveté about Communist expansion that led the Soviets to invade Afghanistan in the first place. Had Reagan not beaten Carter in 1980 there would have been no Stingers and no victory in the Cold War. But don't expect a movie about Reagan's victory over communism or Carter's surrender to it." I spend most of my time pointing out the lies the media and Hollywood bring you, hoping you'll believe it. This is one of the biggest examples. (Investor's Business Daily, 12/24/07)