Posted on 01/18/2008 10:38:17 AM PST by StarCMC
I'VE had a huge response to Tuesday's column about The New York Times' obscene bid to smear veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan as mad killers. Countless readers seem to be wondering: Why did the paper do it?
Well, in the Middle Ages, lepers had to carry bells on pain of death to warn the uninfected they were coming. One suspects that the Times would like our military veterans to do the same.
The purpose of Sunday's instantly notorious feature "alerting" the American people that our Iraq and Afghanistan vets are all potential murderers when they move in next door was to mark those defenders of freedom as "unclean" - as the new lepers who can't be trusted amid uninfected Americans.
In the more than six years since 9/11, the Times has never run a feature story half as long on any of the hundreds of heroes who've served our country - those who've won medals of honor, distinguished service crosses, Navy crosses, silver stars or bronze stars with a V device (for valor).
But the Times put a major investigative effort into the "sensational" story that 121 returning vets had committed capital offenses (of course, 20 percent of the cases cited involved manslaughter charges stemming from drunken driving, not first- or second-degree murder . . . ).
*snip*
Again, the Times' smear certainly wasn't an accident. The paper's staff is highly paid and highly experienced. Its editors know that a serious news story has to put numbers into context. But their sole attempt at context was to note that offenses by former soldiers have ticked up since we went to war.
The Times is trying to make you fear our veterans...to convince you that our military would be...a death-machine that would turn [your sons and daughters] into incurable psychopaths.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
LMBO — that WAS classic — I was hoping someone would read thru and see it!
This comes near the end:
the left's archetypal vet is the Marine colonel in "American Beauty" who, frustrated in his suppressed gay passions, murders poor Kevin Spacey
....msm did the same thing after VietMam....portrayed the returning vet as a mad dog.With the help of "We were Ghengis Khan" Kerry.
I'm positive that no one at the Slimes head office can make that claim nor do they want to know any veterans, they're traitors all.
Great piece by Ralph Peters, thanks for posting.
The Times is disgusting. I will be glad when they go under.
Bump For Later Read!
Great closing line!!!
R.P. has been hitting it out of the park lately.
Anyway, this huge lie that they "support the troops" has been a hard one to maintain and you know that everyone of them has ground his teeth into nubs as he/she attempt to repeat it.
LOL — thanks!
“To a darkly humorous degree, all this reflects the Freudian terrors leftists feel when confronted with men who don’t have concave chests.”
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They simply cannot comprehend the motivations of a man who would put his life on the line for his country so they treat them as aliens.
We’ve all seen the articles painting our servicemen as all being from some mysterious, impoverished Extramadura province somewhere in Cornpone Country.
You got that right!
Well said. And they do it with no shame.
Looks like the NYTimes will soon be ready for the pink sheets. What a perfect fit!
We're ALL potential murders. Come into my home at 3am and attack my family......
I loved it too...
Media has a template...If it doesn’t fit the template they will massage the facts until they fit...even if it means outright fabrication.
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