Kiley Replacement Slammed ‘Media Assault,’ ‘Misinformation’ In Post Investigation

[babylonsister]

Wow. And she never addresses what the media was so pissed about. Unreal.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/13/kiley-replacement/

Kiley Replacement Slammed ‘Media Assault,’ ‘Misinformation’ In Post Investigation

Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley, who described the Washington Post’s investigation of Walter Reed as “yellow journalism at its worst,” was replaced yesterday by his deputy Maj. Gen. Gale S. Pollock. As the Post reports today, Pollack seems to be cut from the same cloth:

Pollock, in an e-mail sent to colleagues and staff in the Army Medical Command on Friday, had also sought to minimize reports about conditions at Walter Reed and attacked the media’s handling of the issue.

“I know everyone is extremely pained and angry about the media assaults on Walter Reed and our senior leaders,” Pollock wrote in an e-mail obtained by The Washington Post. She added that she “articulated our displeasure at the misinformation about the quality of care” to a Post reporter after a congressional hearing last week but also acknowledged that she believes the stories could create momentum for changes that would better serve the Army.

She also wrote: “I know that your families and loved ones are affected by this event as well — please reassure them that the media makes money on negative stories not by articulating the positive in life — though that is something I will never understand.”

A spokeswoman for Pollock told the Post that her message was merely “intended to lift the spirits and reinforce confidence in her colleagues and her staff.” In any case, she won’t be serving long. An advisory board will soon recommend a new surgeon general, who must be approved by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate.

[jwirr]

1. So they have replaced two quilty people with a defender of the

quilty.

[Kagemusha]

2. The last part says she's just filler, a stop-gap.

The real question will be who gets nominated to run the place longer term.

[gratuitous]

3. Yeah, and Halliburton makes money off of wanton death and destruction

As do you, Ms. Pollock. Let's talk about things that some of us will never understand. You will never understand why publicizing horrible conditions at a military hospital could result in the positive in life. Well, apparently ignoring the situation and glossing it over for several years didn't change it one iota. A story finally gets published in the Washington Post, and some folks in Congress take an active interest in the situation, and you don't understand why that might articulate into something positive.

Meanwhile, one of your corporate overlords, Halliburton, receives fat contracts, fails to perform them, demands bonuses, and then makes preparations to move its corporate headquarters beyond the reach of American law to rein it in. And your civilian bosses, in line for a portion of that big fat stream of income, refuse to do anything about it, because they're in line for a portion of that big fat stream of income (stop me if you've heard this before). And yet your high dudgeon is reserved for the people pointing out the problems and trying to fix them, and you don't utter a peep against the miscreants causing the problems and profiting from them.

Looks like not all the sick individuals at Walter Reed are in hospital gowns.

[Monkeyman]

4. Have a nice short stay bye bye