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Last week it was announced that Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy would be awarded the Medal of Honor for his service and sacrifice in Afghanistan. You’d think that would be big news but not so much. While some papers did……

Oh, we know what side the NY Times and the media are on, alright — the enemy’s.

georgej on October 14, 2007 at 7:28 AM

Do you see an endgame? Personally, I see the fall of the institution of the Times (like the networks, etc.) if kept in liberal hands. I don’t see worse, yet.

However, The NY Times did carry the story, 5 paragraphs, in their international section, but not as the lead headline.

A country of 25 million people, in the midst of a so-called sectarian civil war, and only 4 people are murdered! Hell, more people were murdered in Chicago or New York in any given day!

The New York Times, like the rest of the 5th Column media, in invested in America’s defeat. They won’t report stories about an American’s heroic action in combat; one worthy of the nation’s highest award for bravery and valor. They’ll mention in pasing a HUGE turnaround like the Anbar Uprising, the defeat of AL Qaeda in Diaylah, and the PEACEFUL transition of Basra to the Iraqi army.

Oh, we know what side the NY Times and the media are on, alright — the enemy’s.

….Just like this recent vote to declare Turkey’s genocide agaisnt Armenia, for the third time now since the 1970′s (is that right?)

R D on October 13, 2007 at 7:19 PM

Would not be fair, somone might benefit without da gov.

Certainly liberal proposals often founder on the shoals of unintended consequences….

They want you to vote for their “good intentions” and not what the real outcome could be.

Isn’t that how liberals always blow it? By overlooking things and not thinking ahead to ALL possible future outcomes?

El Guapo on October 13, 2007 at 9:33 PM

Maybe. Certainly liberal proposals often founder on the shoals of unintended consequences, in cases where the healthy respect of conservatives for the invariant properties of human nature would have informed a more sensible structure of incentives. But for many years, the NYT leaned left, yet valued its reputation as the “Newspaper of Record” more than any leftist agenda, at least usually. Lately they seem to be completely willing to squander that legacy, and I find it inexplicable. It’s not just BDS, although that’s clearly a factor. Look at their campaign about women and the Masters golf tournament. Utterly pointless, controversial even among their staff. One gets the feeling that they are not just willing to squander the legacy of the Times, but eager to do so.

By unduly restricting what news is “Fit to Print,” you’ve opened the door to the competition. You blew it.

Splunge

Isn’t that how liberals always blow it? By overlooking things and not thinking ahead to ALL possible future outcomes?

Here’s another story of victory they ignore. Well, the whole MSM missed it for some reason.

Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained a key al Qaeda in Iraq cell leader, a second cousin to the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, during an intelligence driven raid in northern Mosul.

http://news.soc.mil/releases/News%20Archive/2007/October/071007-01.html

I’ve been saying for a bit that the Left is working up to condemning both wars. There are two reasons for this: any war which serves the interests of the West is wrong in their eyes and any endeavor initiated by Bush is, by definition, tainted (again, in their eyes). The purposeful omission of the official acknowledgment of lieutenant’s heroism is merely one of the ways in which the condemnation of all things military is perpetrated. The NYT–cog of the Left that it is–cannot spin the MOH announcement. So they simply refused to report it.

RIP, Lt. Murphy and know that a great many of us will not allow your heroism to go unheralded.

We figure if Lt. Michael Murphy was alleged by John Murtha to have gunned down innocent civilians, the New York Times would have noted the story; in all likelihood, on page one.

But the fact a local hero was bestowed with the Medal of Honor doesn’….

Michelle, I’m glad you had proper and prompt cover of Lt. Michael Murphy’s sacrifice. May God Rest his Soul.

I guess the NY Times has changed since 2005?

Or they like the Army better than the Navy?

Or they think Iraq is the good war and Afghanistan is the bad war? Nope, that would be backwards, better strike that.

Then again, Staten Island is probably the most conservative borough in NYC, and there are a lot of sons and daughters “over there” right now.