The Seattle PI's Raw Nerves

The Seattle PI's Raw Nerves

George Nethercutt refused to turn his milk money over to the playground bully, and the bully is pissed. Last week, Nethercutt criticized the media (read PI ) for focusing on battle casualties and ignoring the progress being made in Iraq.

The Seattle Post-Intelligenser's reporter carved up Nethercutt's quote to make it seem that he was insenstive to the deaths being suffered there. The PI's butchered quote was seized upon the the Patty Murray campaign to tar Nethercutt.

Nethercutt asked for a correction, the PI refused, so he paid for an ad telling the truth, with his full quote in context, which gives very different impression than the butchered PI version.

The PI snapped back today with a childish retort, which included this phrase. "The family of Pfc. Kerry Scott of Concrete, who buried their young hero Tuesday, likely would not share Nethercutt's news judgment."


Would the PI approve if I summarized their attitude as: “The family of Pfc. Kerry Scott…would…share…Nethercutt’s judgement.”

Aside from the disgusting assumption that the PI’s editors know what is on hearts of the family of Pfc Kerry Scott and their arrogance when choosing to put their words in the grieving family’s mouths, I’m sure that the family does not want to believe that their loved one died for nothing. That is exactly the message that PI is conveying when it focuses its full attention on counting bodies and ignoring the cause that these brave young men gave lives for.