Roger,

I’m glad you and Eugene and Glenn Harlan and Hugh and Hinderaker and them others up in Minnesota have taken this on. Y’all give the argument a credibility that me and booger can’t pull off.

I knew the worm had turned even before 9/11 when I saw an NBC segment called, It’s Your Money, to showcase the wasteful defense department. In this case the Marine Corps. The segment was about how the Marines refused to buy cheaper newer H-60 helo’s, instead insisting on buying outdated, and more expensive H-1′s.

What wasn’t mentioned was that the H-60 was too big and too heavy to land on the back of many Navy ships then in service. Plus the Blackhawk didn’t have a rotor brake or automatic bladefold which is required for ship board ops.

So, there was no story there. The H-60 was not suitable for ship board ops. Period. If NBC had bothered to ask ANY Navy or Marine Helo pilot they would have known that.

Then we get Sebastian Junger on Nightline allowing as how the Taliban had a winning strategy and had dug their bunkers so deep no bomb could find them. Two weeks later they couldn’t be found anywhere. Except for the dead ones left in the bunkers.

Then there was the BBC Gilligan mess…

I stopped watching after that.

As far as the politics: The networks were pushing Howard Dean for a solid year. What does that tell you?

Craig