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Just as his colleague Kimberly Dozier predicted last Thursday, CBS' David Martin reported on the "withering letter of reprimand" that the Pentagon issued in the case of the death of former football player Pat Tillman, a USArmy Ranger who was killed in 2004 by his own comrade in arms in Afghanistan. Gen Philip Kensinger is the now retired officer who was censured in the letter for his lies in covering up his efforts to concoct a scenario to portray Tillman as a battlefield hero, killed while confronting the Taliban. Martin's report, however, offered no hint of the darker suspicion that NBC's Jim Miklaszewski mentioned last Friday--that Tillman was deliberately murdered by jealous comrades. Martin insisted that it is an "awful truth" that Tillman was "accidentally killed."
A footnote on the Tillman story: his is a big deal because he gave up a career in the NFL spotlight to go to war. It is now routine, as anchor Katie Couric did here in introducing Martin's story, to refer to Tillman not as a former player, but as a "football star." We are not NFL fans here at Tyndall Report, but our impression was that Tillman had the status of a journeyman starter for the Arizona Cardinals; "star" exaggerates his skills. We welcome comments from readers with NFL expertise.
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