I am the creator of
http://www.cplsanchez.info, a website that tells the
whole truth about this "journalist," Matt Sanchez. I am also an American, but unlike Mr. Sanchez I had a long career as an actual journalist. When he achieved a certain amount of notoreity last spring, first I laughed. Then when I saw that Wikipedia, a very popular encyclopedia website, was essentially allowing him to edit out the embarrassing details of his biography, I said "Enough is enough," and created the site.
Today, I was looking through the web traffic reports on my site and saw that I got a bunch of traffic from a Canadian military website. You can imagine my surprise about that, so one click led to another and I figured I'd better post something over there.
Mr. Sanchez is a real piece of work. In normal times, he'd be ignored as a sad and unfortunate soul projecting his own tortured personal conflicts onto others. But these aren't normal times in the United States. We are split in many ways, and the structure of the news media is changing. The ground is fertile for misfits to be manipulated and showcased as worthy experts and commentators. Matt Sanchez is, if not Exhibit A, certainly a vivid example. As much as I'd rather let this sleeping dog lie, I think he's got to be exposed for who and what he is.
He is no more a "journalist" than I am a space alien arrived last Thursday from Pluto, but he's adept at striking the pose. It's something that his past careers trained him to do. Among other things, if you look through the cplsanchez.info site you'll see that, aside from his time as a porno actor and years as a prostitute, he enlisted as a Marine Corps reservist. He stayed in that billet for two years before being eased out on account of an unspecified medical deferment. And now he's an intrepid journalist and patriot. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm afraid that Mr. Sanchez has been a fraud from start to finish; from what I understand, even his porn "reviews" advised him to find a different line of work.
So, there you have it about Matt Sanchez. Don't imagine that he's representative of the dominant American view of Canada, or that he's representative of the U.S. military, or that he's representative of those Americans who happen to be pointed toward the same sex rather than the opposite sex. Think of him as a raindrop that found its way through the leak in the ceiling and splashed on a muddy floor, and you'll have a more accurate picture.
Anyway, I figured I ought to leave a message and have a say. If you look at the section of the site called "About This Site (Why?!)" you'll see some words, and then a link, that talk about a U.S. Marine who I consider to be a hero for what he did in battle. There are other heroes, and I have no doubt that the list includes some Canadians. Even though I have my deepest doubts about the war, I have nothing but admiration for those who are putting themselves in harm's way. Thank you for your service.
