Patton’s slapping incidents became publicly known when journalist Drew Pearson broke the story on his national radio show. Wikipedia reports: “Pearson’s version not only conflated details of both slapping incidents but falsely reported that the private in question was visibly “out of his head,” telling Patton to “duck down or the shells would hit him,” and that in response, “Patton struck the soldier, knocking him down.” Pearson punctuated his broadcast by twice stating that Patton would never again be used in combat, despite the fact that Pearson had no factual basis for this prediction.” The Allied Command, and especially General Eisenhower, deemed Patton critical to the war effort, and this publicity complicated things enormously. That the media tends to conflate things is taken for granted these days. What is Creator’s perspective?

Again, what you are seeing on display here represents the exigencies of war. These were not normal times or normal people thrust together under the most demanding and highly charged of circumstances, and they were, as we have explained, truly opposites in their makeup and their suitability to serve as a combat warrior. The limited perspective of humans, based on the level of ignorance of the culture as a whole they are a part of, make it difficult for the average person to have a loftier perspective, a more divine one informed by being in divine alignment, as few people maintain that status for any length of time if at all. Journalists are typically a certain kind of individual who act as detectives in ferreting out hidden truth. Their drive to do so is based on an inner expectation that there is fault to be exposed and bandied about publicly as evidence of their prowess in getting to the bottom of things as a reporter. That role carries with it a proclivity to exercise the darker side of those ulterior motives, wanting to expose the weakness in others. As such, reporters are professional fault-finders and often judges and juries in conveying their own personal assessment of the conduct of others. A common folly is the tendency to exaggerate and even sometimes invent salacious details and circumstances to punch up the story and make it more exciting and apparently meaningful, thus ensuring their success in delivering the goods, seemingly at least. So humans being human and often exhibiting their limitations means, in the case of reporters, there will be much wretched excess from bias and self-serving agendas that can be the enemy of truth. So that episode by a member of the press simply is illustrating his own shortcomings. The fact this is so widely exhibited in today's world is a testament to the existence of widespread ignorance and limited understanding of human behavior and all it stems from and its meaning.