Guess who is embedded with US troops in Iraq......Matt Sanchez.

[madfloridian]

Yes, you heard me correctly. And he is saying the press is just not telling you the truth.

This Matt Sanchez..



And don't forget Countdown's video of Matt Sanchez...yes, that one.

Conservative Bedfellows

Coulter pal accused of gay porn past...
Prior to his political career, Sanchez allegedly worked as a gay porn star under the names "Rod Majors" and "Pierre LaBranche.

Here are his reports from the Iraq battleground. Rest assured...things are going quite well there.

Fallujah and Fantasy--Getting the record corrected

Marine reservist Matt Sanchez is a freelance journalist embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq. He thinks most mainstream media reporting from Iraq is "completely wrong."

It is wrong, Mr. Sanchez said in an article in National Review Online Thursday, because many news organizations rely on dubious sources, and rarely suffer consequences for mistakes, however egregious.

"Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences," Mr. Sanchez said. "Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously."

The mere existence of spectacular pictures of explosions should be a warning sign, Mr. Sanchez said.

Thanks for your insight, Matt. Would you like to respond to the allegations that we declared the citizens of Fallujah who remained there "enemy combatants?"

Declaring citizens of a city enemy combatants just for staying in their homes.

Prior to the second siege in November, its citizens were given two choices: leave the city or risk dying as enemy insurgents.

...."What of the estimated 50,000 residents who did not leave Falluja? The US military suggested there were a couple of thousand insurgents in the city before the siege, but in the end chose to treat all the remaining inhabitants as enemy combatants."

..."..."If political avenues are exhausted, the U.S. military has formulated other options, including plans for a wholesale clearing operation in Sadr City that would require a much larger force, but commanders stress that this is a last resort.

..."A second Fallujah plan exists, but we don't want to execute it," a military officer in Baghdad said, referring to the U.S. military offensive in November 2004 to retake the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah in Iraq's western Anbar province. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with reporters.

[Rick Myers]

1. Dirty Sanchez???

:grr:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Yeah, he posts his drivel...

Over at LiveLeak, premier home of hordes of war pr0n fappers. To their credit, some of the people over there call him on his past accomplishments. That said, the place is...errm...stiff(ahem) with fanboys who apparently have a compulsive attraction to anything military.

There is one guy over there who purports to be a combat vet, who posts the most ridiculous stuff regularly and is most likely a raging alcoholic. He posted one video of him getting off, in a war zone, on intravenous ETOH. Of course, he has no end of tough-talking fanboys who hang on his every slurred and disjointed word, mostly about what a patriotic badass he is.

[madfloridian]

4. LiveLeak....? That sounds like a lovely place.

Yuck.

[TheBaldyMan]

3. don't ask don't tell Matt - btw how does this effect the morale of the troops?

[madfloridian]

10. I bet he doesn't report on all the civilians becoming refugees...

and lacking food water and other supplies..too busy putting a good face on things.

Matt Sanchez, are you reporting on these tragedies?

[kevinbgoode]

5. "freelance journalist?" WTF? ? ?

After tens of thousands of dollars and years of education, which I was told I was REQUIRED to have to be a "journalist". . .what is this bullshit about every political nutcase becomes a "journalist" without any ethical foundation or real experience?

I'm beginning to think I should sue the industry - and the universities for professional fraud.

[madfloridian]

7. Look at it this way....he is not a journalist except in his own mind..

He is a propagandist.

I am wondering how someone with his background was able to be embedded with US Troops.

[mcg]

13. Maybe he was embedded in some .... nt

[DinahMoeHum]

6. The Marines would probably frag this jerk if they knew what he did

when he was once-upon-a-time on active duty.

Marines usually get the indoctrination at boot camp about "sheep-f***ing q****s".

Well, this guy is the real thing, as far as the noun is concerned.

:evilfrown:

[madfloridian]

8. Oh, my, he is doing radio programs there as well.

No wonder conservatives are not embarrassed by people like David Vitter. This guy who was a porn star gets to be imbedded with the US military in Iraq...and has radio shows there.

He has also received awards for really good journalism.

Matt Sanchez is the recipient of the Jeane Kirkpatrick Award for Academic Freedom, and is currently embedded in Iraq where he is doing the radio programs "In their Own Words" and "Hometown Heroes".

And in this article he writes about the religiousness in Iraq, sort of.

My head just spins sometimes because of all the hypocrisy.

Oops, forgot to put the article link...will need to go find it. I was also disappointed to see he is posting for IraqSlogger. That is Eason Jordan's site, so that rather surprised me.

Here's the article...hate to post from Human Events, though.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21269

[madfloridian]

9. CPAC PART DEUX: Conflicted Conservatives in Crisis

Another of the great Max Blumenthal video clips. This is the Conservative conference where Matt Sanchez received his award for outing those bad lefty guys at Columbia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5e6VMYjnk

Here's Hannity helping him attack the students at Columbia. Sanchez says they called him a baby killer because he was a conserative and in the military.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jy6CJvEmCs

And he is with our military, reporting the events in Iraq as they unfold. This is just unbelievable to me. And Hannity says Semper Fi.

Colmes sort of kind of spoke up defending the students, sort of kind of in a mild sort of way.

[madfloridian]

11. He links to another conservative blogger who has odd things to say.

They make it sound like it is all ok there. Very smooth talk. Here is the link from Sanchez's website and a few quotes from a blogger he links to.

http://www.matt-sanchez.com/2007/07/totten-hits-bag.html

Ok, this paragraph really got to me.

I waited for my helicopter flight with two other civilians – Willie from Texas and Larry from Florida.

Willie and Larry work construction for private companies in harsh places like Iraq and Afghanistan. They are both well-rounded individuals with Red State tastes and political views and a worldliness and cosmopolitanism that surpasses that of most people who live in the Blue States. They aren’t allowed to tell me how much money they make, but it is many hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

Eeeeeek! How stupid.

And another:

I watched helicopters fly over the city in the distance and launch burning white countermeasure flares to confuse heat-seeking missiles as the pilots flew over hostile parts of the city. This was the only evidence I saw that I was in a war zone. I heard no shots fired, and I heard no explosions.

After having spent several days Baghdad’s Green Zone and Red Zone, I still haven’t heard or seen any explosions. It’s a peculiar war. It is almost a not-war. Last July’s war in Northern Israel and Southern Lebanon was hundreds of times more violent and terrifying than this one. Explosions on both sides of the Lebanese-Israeli border were constant when I was there.

You’d think explosions and gunfire define Iraq if you look at this country from far away on the news. They do not. The media is a total distortion machine.

Glad we have these two to keep us straight.

:think:

[kevinbgoode]

16. And what does Matt Sanchez do?

Honestly, I'd like to know how this crackerjack received press credentials to be embedded with the troops. He doesn't represent any mainstream media, has no real journalism experience, and as far as I can tell, has never studied the profession nor possesses any understanding of it. Someone in our military should answer for this nonsense -

[madfloridian]

17. That's the question.

Credentials. Who can be picked by the military and who can not.

Nothing in his bio at Wiki, if correct, really qualifies him to be a military analyst.

"Sanchez was born in East San Jose, California, the youngest of four children to Puerto Rican parents.<4> He attended Independence High School, graduating in 1988, and then traveled to Europe, where he taught English at academias, an informal language center for students. He also did some writing for travel magazines.<5> He lived in Quebec in the 1990s, working in the adult entertainment industry both there and in Los Angeles, after which he moved to Germany. In 2003, he joined the Marine Corps Reserve under an eight-year enlistment, and was trained as a refrigeration mechanic.<2><1>"

"Sanchez returned to college in his mid-30s, starting at New York University in 2004, and then in 2005 transferring to Columbia University, studying in the School of General Studies.<6> He became known on the Columbia University campus for his pro-military stance, and in 2005, while he was a junior at the university, he claims that he underwent harassment from on-campus leftist students."

I don't know what journalism courses he took. I took quite a few in college, so does that qualify me?

Someone should be asking why...since Air America Radio and other liberal talk (except finally Ed Schultz) were forbidden to be broadcast, will Limbaugh was heard. Ask why and how so many of the right wing bloggers have been there been embedded with the troops. Didn't Malkin go for a while?

And in my mind I think that porn background might play into the scrutiny, though I am not concerned about the gay part. How does he get such access?

[kevinbgoode]

19. I have a master's in journalism. . .I guess I'm more than qualified.

I'll just create a web site and announce that I'm now covering the War.

[madfloridian]

22. Take a look at some of the others he links to in his blog.

Makes one wonder where the funding is coming from. :shrug:

I hereby deem you better qualified to report on Iraq. :D

[frogcycle]

12. but which one is Sanchez?

[mcg]

14. Matt Sanchez - Wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Sanchez

[madfloridian]

18. Thanks for the entry at Wiki....

Interesting.

:hi:

[mcg]

15. Matt Sanchez Responds, Sort Of (interview), Advocate.com articles

Matt Sanchez Responds, Sort Of (interview)
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2007/03/matt-sanchez-responds-sort-of.html

Right-wing darling's alleged gay-porn past
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid42710.asp

Matt Sanchez: I'm "bad at being gay"
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid42752.asp

[catgirl]

20. Has Coulter ever responded to the allegations re: Sanchez?

This news doesn't surprise me though. He's probably a "regular" at the White House.

[Historic NY]

21. Hey what happened to don't ask don't tell

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/03/mcsanchez070314/

Dirty Sanchez admits to doing gay porn, but he is not gay. Thats almost like smoking pot but not inhaling. :crazy:

Perhaps he is taking care of Hannity, O'lielly & Coulter as an escort.

[TheBaldyMan]

23. I found Rod Major's IDMB.com entry (link)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538273/bio">Rod Majors from imdb.com

from the mini bio:

"Born Pierre LaBranche, this hunky French-Canadian started his movie career in hard-core porn videos for Kristen Bjorn and the late William Duffault back in 1993. The following year he moved to San Francisco, changed his name to the more American-sounding 'Rod Majors', and worked successfully in several gay and bi videos for Catalina and Falcon. His most memorable titles are Idol Country (1994) and Built Tough (1995). Very sexy looking, dark skinned, fluent in several languages and extremely well endowed, Rod was often marketed as an 'exotic' sex performer. He took a break from the porn industry at the peak of his career and has subsequently lived in England and Germany."

I wonder if he has a Bacon number?

[madfloridian]

24. Goes by the name.....Cpl. Matt Sanchez??

SO which is it? What is his real name? Not familiar with that site, but that is one heck of an interesting remark.


IMDb Mini Biography By: tigon

Trivia
Is fluent in French, English, Spanish and German.

Now goes by the name "Cpl. Matt Sanchez," under which he has made appearances at conservative political events.

Personal Quotes
"Porn reduces the mind and flattens the soul. I don't like it. That's not hypocrisy talking; that's just experience. In porn, everything taboo is trivialized and everything trivial is magnified." Published article, March 8, 2007.

[TheBaldyMan]

25. imdb gives his birth name as Matthew Sanchez, DoB 1st Dec 1970 in San Diego CA

although Rod Majors has a certain ring to it.

[madfloridian]

26. I meant this sentence...

Mini Biography
Born Pierre LaBranche, this hunky French-Canadian started his movie career

Well, I won't put the rest of it. But is that just bio made up stuff for his career? I am laughing.

[TheBaldyMan]

27. yes, that's his porn star bio - no it's not 100% honest. n/t