[Joe Friday]

For purposes of debate, hypotheticals often impose either/or choices. If "embedded" with enemy troops, who come upon American soldiers, would the reporter yell, "Look out"? Is that it? That question cuts so much deeper than a simple "patriot vs. non-patriot" issue. Would you die to warn your countrymen about an impending ambush? It makes Wallace appear a coward, I guess. I think it is possible to be both an American and a reporter... and in the case of the hypothetical, a dead American reporter.

I see the Wallace video clip as a troubling insight into the elite liberal media. They are journalists first and Americans second. How do you think they would cover a civilian KSM trial? The fact that these terrorists were captured during the Bush presidency would be just too much for the liberal media to bear...it would be open season on GW, Cheney, the CIA, and the America Military. They would be after the 'scoop' and the security of the American people woud come in a distant second.

As for Mike Wallace, don't you believe his answer should have been 'why on earth would I be on patrol with the enemy knowing that there is a possibility of an encounter with American soldiers, my fellow countrymen...I would not want to be standing with the enemy while American Soldiers were dying.'

What say you ol' Cavemaster?