He’s the most respected journalist in U.S. history, and for decades Seymour
Hersh has consistently broken major international stories, winning him the Pulitzer
Prize among other prestigious awards of journalism.
But the media establishment that once idealized him now seeks his destruction.
Hersh is facing a coordinated attack from his former colleagues, each scrambling
to drive in the next knife.
Hersh’s recent report on the killing of Osama Bin Laden and his prior investigation
of Obama’s aborted 2013 bombing of Syria have attracted a synchronized media
smear campaign.
But Hersh’s attackers are a clumsy bunch. The hysterics and uniformity of the
attack says less about the victim than it does the perpetrators, who share a
self interest in shredding Hersh’s stellar reputation.
Hersh’s last two investigations exposed major lies of the Obama administration;
but they also exposed the complete failure of the US media, who’ve been willing
captives to the sloppy narratives spun by the Obama administration.
For example, Hersh’s 2014 articles on Syria were a damning exposure of Obama’s lies
to the US public in his attempt to start a fresh war. The media responded to
Hersh’s sensational Syria articles with collective silence. They simply ignored
them and did no follow up, leaving the lies of the Obama administration unchallenged.
The few bold enough to challenge Hersh mocked him as a “conspiracy theorist,”
never bothering to address Hersh’s allegations.