Posted on 11/10/2009 10:06:26 AM PST by Patrick Madrid
Matthew Balan writes: "Andrea Elliott’s front page article in the November 9 New York Times played up the thousands of Muslims in the U.S. military and how their “service...is more necessary and more complicated than ever before,” but gave the false impression that a Medal of Honor recipient named near the end of her piece was a Muslim himself, when he was actually Catholic. . . ."
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At least the NYT didn’t confuse the MOH with the civilian Congressional Medal of Freedom, as did Obama.
“All the news that we can make up delivered to your door every morning”.
Most Arab Christians in america came rrom families that fled the depredations of TROP in their former homelands.
Just when you think the NYT couldn’t dig any lower, they bring in a longer shovel.
Deception and misrepresentation -— exactly the same way they helped Barack Obama get elected president.
She didn’t just get his religion wrong, she couldn’t even get his rating correct.
PO2 Micahel Mansoor, USN
She probably confused him with LT Michael Murphy, USN who won the MOH in Afghanistan.
Danny Thomas, Doug Flutie, ...
Does anyone know if NYTs has issued a correction or apology yet?
I haven’t heard of one, myself, but then I don’t normally read the NYT. Perhaps some here who do read it might see something and let us know.
I searched the Times for today, Nov 10. Nothing yet. Most of the corrections today are for stories written either Sunday or Saturday, so I suppose a correction could still be issued tomorrow for a story from yesterday.
This is true of liberal media (i.e. MSNBC) as well as conservative (i.e. FOX News). A day or so after the shooting in Ft. Hood, on "Fox and Friends," Gretchen and Brian were competing in nonsense regarding Major Hasan. Brian said that this psychiatrist "received his doctorate in psychology" and Gretchen thought she is on to something when she started asking how come Hasan was promoted to a major although he was once reprimanded.
Brian Kilmeade is FOX's resident chicken hawk and pretty much a resident idiot when it comes to many topics, because he doesn't bother to educate himself about them (he must have really good connections on FOX News to keep his job despite his bravados). A simple Wikipedia search would have taught him the difference between psychiatry and psychology, but he didn't bother...
Gretchen Carlson could have avoided the "dumb blonde" image that she constantly promotes by making a simple phone call to any military medical residency program director and get her facts straight. But she didn't. She prefers to be FOX News' resident comedian to start your morning off.
A simple reprimand of an officer, even a written one, would not a detriment to a promotion if it were not entered as a permanent record. Most adverse comments are expunged after a period of time and are not seen by promotion boards, but are kept in a separate file that is never seen on a microfiche/electronic record.
Second, all doctors are promoted to O3 pay grade (Captain in the Army and Air Force, Lieutenant in the navy) upon their graduation from a medical school. This has to do with the number of years counted as "service credit." Anyone with a doctoral degree (MD, PharmD, PhD, SciD, etc.) comes into the military as an O3. Medical school students already have a college degree, so they enter military medical schools as 01 (2nd Lieutenant or Ensign in the Navy), get promoted to 02 (1st Lieutenant, or Lieutenant Junior Grade in the Navy) in 2 years and, upon graduation, two years later to O3.
This is no different than any college grad (civilian college or military academy): four years of college education qualifies one for a commission. A fresh college degree counts for O1, which is automatically increased to O2 after two years and to O3 two years later. These promotions are pretty much automatic unless someone does something terribly wrong.
Unlike other direct officer procurements, medical doctors are guaranteed promotion to O4 (Major, or Lieutenant Commander in the Navy) upon completion of their residency (specialty) program, which is another four years of postdoctoral training (it takes four years to become eligible for O4, but doctors are guaranteed promotion unless they do something very bad). Thus, when Major Hasan finished his psychiatric residency he was automatically promoted to O4 (Major).
So Gretcheb's insistent questions why he got promoted only confirmed how completely unprepared she can be and keep her job, and it says a lot about FOX News and the quality of their information.
As for the NYT reporter, she is obviously another idiot reporter who can't get her facts straight but was probably finishing the story on an airplane, of after a good night's fun, and didn't have the time to let facts get in the way of making a complete a$$ of herself.
It doesn't say much about the quality of work of her supervisor either, who was supposed to verify her story's credibility. But chances are very few people in the NYT know the difference between PO2 and a Lieutenant or why helping a PO2, a Navy corpsman, would be more likely to go after a wounded comrade (Navy corpsmen or medics as they are known in the Army, serve with Marine infantry units as "docs"). Apparently, verifying such "meaningless" details are not worth their time.
But there is really no excuse for the NYT to be so careless and outright ignorant as to say that an a Muslim service member attended Catholic Mass...I think the NYT deserves the dumbest media award of the year for that, and probably should fire the idiot who submitted such a story, and the idiot who was supposed to verify it.
But the NYT has sufficient idiot following to keep it in business. There is never any shortage of ill-informed, uneducated and outright dumb readership who support ill-informed, uneducated and outright dumb media.
The only problem is, the ill-informed, uneducated and outright dumb go out and vote. And that seriously affects our lives.
U.S. Muslims often inflate their numbers by claiming all Arab-Americans are Muslim. Looks like the NY Times is helping them.
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