NYT Celebrates the Absolute Moral Political Authority of Our Troops in Iraq

Ace of Spades HQ ^ | 8 APR 2009 | The Head-Ewok-in-Charge at AoSHQ

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

In Unexpected Visit, Obama Wins Cheers of Troops

There are quite a few reasons to knock this as bias. The New York Times never seemed to think it was worthy of prominent announcement that The Demon Bush was warmly received by troops being the most obvious.

Another obvious bit of bias is the claim that Obama "won" the cheers of troops. Did he? In what manner? By what action? It seems more likely that Obama didn't "win" anything from the troops, rather that the troops had, as patriotic Americans and sworn defenders of the Constitution, given the commander in chief the reception they extended to all of their superiors.

There's a last bit of bias here that I always notice in the news, but never mention because it takes a little bit to explain, and I'm not sure how much actual impact it has.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

I do not have anything intelligent to add to his essay, other than that imo this is worth reading. note:headline truncated to fit.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Sorry about the screwup with html and the headline.

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON
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From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008:
"By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'We’re revolutionary Communists.'

He got off on the group’s multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.

Ideal Bombing Weather:
'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)

Article: Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

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From the Chicago Sun Times, November 13, 2008:

Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#

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BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO BOMB FORT DIX

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events
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2007 Fort Dix attack plot

A group of six radical Islamist[1] men, allegedly plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, United States, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2007. They were subsequently charged with planning an attack against U.S. soldiers. The alleged aim of the six men was said to be to "kill as many soldiers as possible".[2] Their trial began on October 20, 2008. [3]

Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said the defendants were inspired by jihad saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dix_plot
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

[Old Sarge]

Another obvious bit of bias is the claim that Obama "won" the cheers of troops. Did he? In what manner?

I heard a Faux News-Obama audio bite on the radio of The One (piss be upon him) speaking to the troops.

The troops responded at every full stop with a "Hooah". It was mostly female voices.

I am assuming it was the usual picked crowd of black females that The One (his name be pissed) uses for his troop speeches.

[Devils Avocado]

... eh, actually, the Times said that the troops were happy to see Commander in Chief #43, too. In the article about Bush’s Thanksgiving 2003 trip, they mention that the troops were “whooping” for Bush, and on his next trip over there four years later, the Times said that “After a minute’s ovation when [President Bush] entered, the audience repeatedly interrupted the president with wild cheering and whoops, and crowded around him for 10 minutes afterward as he strode in among them and chatted about their families and their war experiences.”

Did Obama “earn” the cheers of the troops? Eh, maybe, maybe not — they were sure glad to hear him say that they were nearly done with their mission. Good news straight from the President is certain to be warmly received. But in any case, the Times doesn’t seem to have qualms mentioning when the troops are glad to see the President, regardless of who it is at the time.

[a fool in paradise]

Is the NYet Times still getting quotes from Jason Blair’s “sources”?

[Adder]

“The troops responded at every full stop with a “Hooah”. It was mostly female voices.”

True and it was by no means what I would call enthusiastic.

Nowhere near what W received.

[Devils Avocado]

... no, after firing him, the Times published a 7,239-word front-page story investigating what happened, headlined “Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception.” The story called the Blair scandal “a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper.”

That, of course, wasn’t an issue of right- or left-leaning bias, but of out-and-out lying; combining discussions of the two makes it more difficult to get to the bottom of either (though I’m pretty sure the Blair thing has been all sussed out).

[a fool in paradise]

All of the major news media outlets have been caught red handed outright fabricating the news.

Unnamed sources are common and reports that the troops ALL love the man don’t pass the smell test. He’s cutting their budgets, disarming their forces, and they are supposed to be happy when the CEO stands there for a photo op. Nothing in it rings true.