GIVING NEWSWEEK COVER(John Podhoretz on the NY Times article)

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[Dog]

GIVING NEWSWEEK COVER [John Podhoretz] The New York Times continues the bizarre act of carrying Newsweek's water in the wake of the false Koran-desecration story (which I write about this morning here). The paper's lead story is a lurid account of the vicious treatment of two Afghan prisoners by U.S. soldiers -- events that occurred in December 2002 and for which seven servicemen have been properly punished. Let me repeat that: December 2002. That's two and a half years ago. Every detail published by the Times comes from a report done by the U.S. military, which did the investigating and the punishing. The publication of this piece this week is an effort not to get at the truth, not to praise the military establishment for rooting out the evil being done, but to make the point that the United States is engaged in despicable conduct as it fights the war on terror. In the name of covering the behinds of media colleagues, all is fair in hate and war. Posted at 09:32 AM

[Dog]

The Times is despicable..

[Dog]

fyi..

[Brilliant]

Actually, it's less a matter of cover, and more a situation where each institution of the leftwing media is trying to outdo the other in defaming America.

[Dog]

Fyi..

[Dog]

They have declared war on our military.

[Tabi Katz]

Hard to believe anyone still takes that pile of horse dung known as the New York Times seriously.

[elhombrelibre]

Some day they may cover Walter Duranty, the lies he told about the famine Stalin caused in the Ukraine, the millions who died, and how Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for this effort while working at the NYT. That prize has never been returned. But that was a long time ago, unlike this story they dug up from two years ago to embarrass the army after it had policed itself!!!!

[Dog]

This hit piece was only published today to throw more gasoline on the fire.

What we have is a media that is totally out of control.

What do you suggest we do ignore it?

[frogjerk]

O'Reilly was interviewing Zell Miller the other night and O'Reilly believed that the media didn't really hate the military, only Bush. The Times by providing cover to Newsweek proves that Zell is right when he stated that the MSM hates the military.

[FlipWilson]

This is great. In defending Newsweek and trying to provide cover, the MSM has become a bigger story than the original Newsweek false story. In short, Newsweek is dragging the MSM down with it.

[Mo1]

They have declared war on our military.

Yep .. and they will worse then during Vietnam if they aren't stopped

[Travis McGee]

They have declared war on our military.

They hate America, and want to see it reduced to just another region of the UN.

[finnman69]

the good news is soon the Times is going to restrict some on line content to subscription service. This will only serve to further push the times into the black hole of news irrelevancy..

BYE BYE

[niteowl77]

There appears to be very close coordination (RICO-like) between the MSM and the antiwar left, given recent re-hashes, spin and outright lying on the part of the former and the anti-recruiting activism of the latter.

[mystery-ak]

Thanks for the ping....I have no words to express my outrage!

[Tabi Katz]

I'm talking about those in academia who take the Times' word as gospel.

[Dog]

Ok.

[petitfour]

Thanks again. This echoes what I was thinking.

[randog]

They hate America, and want to see it reduced to just another region of the UN.

The left loves to talk about "revolution" but knows they'd come out on the short end of one because the US military is overwhelmingly conservative. Their only recourse is to neuter it.

[Travis McGee]

And give all power to their leftist activist judges.