Elliott and McCoy in “Embedded”

America deserves the truth, and that's what I try to report. But what happens when I do? They slam the lid down, ship me out and stick me in a room with 12 guys in uniforms who tell me that if I open my mouth again, I can kiss my career goodbye. We're entitled to a free press, but the government won't allow it.

McCoy

That doesn't make what you did any less despicable.

You want despicable? Despicable is the Pentagon using some fake patriotism to eviscerate the First Amendment, and then using the media to spread that fake patriotism like manure in a garden! Look, you can arrest me, you can charge me with having myself shot, but we both know you can't prove any of it!

McCoy

Or we can go to the press and expose you as a self-important fraud.

Sure you could. But without three confirmations, their lawyers won't let them print any of it. Three cheers for American democracy.