Another NY Times Smear on the Military

The NY Times, seemingly over its non-guilt at having damaged national security, continues along her tired and true path of smearing the military. You see, the anti-war wonks at the NY Times never seem to find time to research heroic stories about soldiers who put their lives on the line protecting the innocent who were brutally suppressed under their former dictator Saddam Hussein. Nor do they report on any progress in Iraq without presenting those reports alongside a negative spin that is designed to invalidate any claim to such progress.

[Editorial soc] No, not the, ahem, how would you say it, what is the opposite of jingoist; the far left’s characteristic portrayal of the right? Hmm, only traitor comes to mind.

I continue.

No, not the traitors at the New York Times. They are too busy digging up the liberal equivalent of dirt on military recruiting practices to be concerned with an objective portrayal of an enemy who would slit their throats as quickly and brutally as that of Daniel Pearl.

The Times staffers seem to spend an inordinate amount of time penning articles that are rife with allegations of atrocities that can be applied to the military with a sweeping brush and contrived moral equivalency anecdotes. This is the delineation between true journalists and journalist wannabes. In other words, journalists report the news and journalist wannabes use the news as a penumbral protective layer to surround an editorial bias that is presented as the real news.

It is this kind of wannabe journalist that allows himself to equate an accused rapist with Christians by mentioning not once but twice that Private Steven D. Green “immersed himself in a baptismal pool in the back of an Army chapel in Fort Benning, Ga., one of hundreds of young recruits who embraced religion as they faced certain violence.”

Frankly I don’t quite see what the baptism has to do with a story about a violent person who made his way into the military. Yet NY Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Robert F. Worth find a way to mention that baptism twice. But then I digress, this must be a figment of my imagination.

Side note, liberals fall all over themselves to put “rehabilitated” rapists and criminals back on the street as well as shield them from community notification laws. I wonder why this standard doesn’t apply to the people who join the military to try and put themselves on the right path. Especially those whose biggest crime is a misdemeanor and spent time in a Texas jail on a (gasp) underage alcohol possession. Shame on the military for not calling the Times every time they recruit someone with a misdemeanor conviction on their record.

How could the military possibly recruit a person who was charged with posessing drug paraphernalia, charged as a minor in possession of tobacco and charged as a minor in possession of alcohol? They should have known better and sent him to Hollywood where he would have been a better fit as an aspiring druggie - kleptomaniac.

Perhaps the Times would like to release their background checks and let us know how many of their employees have been convicted of a misdemeanor. We wouldn’t want people like that writing important stories about National Security.

A great example of journalistic fraud as typically found in the New York Times can be seen in last weeks hit piece that exposed sliding military recruiting standards as being responsible for an influx of Hate Groups and gangs in the military. Thus the Times would like you and all you military parents to know that your sons and daughters are gangbanging neo-Nazi racists who were too dumb or too poor to get a liberally acceptable job at some highfalutin bistro on Fifth Avenue.

The Kifner/NY Times article, Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts, is the journalistically lazy recanting of a Southern Poverty Law Center “report” called “A Few Bad Men” that was released not-too-coincidentally on the same day as the Times smear job.

One obvious problem with the story is that the Southern Poverty Law Center itself has been surrounded by controversy as people from within the organization itself accused the group that “tracks racist and right-wing militia groups” of being racist themselves. Jump down to the controversy section of this Wikipedia entry as witness to what the NY Times Reporters consider to be objective sources.

Not surprisingly, the Southern Poverty Law Center has now turned its attention on protecting the innocent yet law breaking (my characterization) “undocumented immigrants”.

Another obvious problem with the current NY Times/SLPC portrayal is that they blame the Iraq war as the reason for such a trend.

“The groups are being abetted, the report said, by pressure on recruiters, particularly for the Army, to meet quotas that are more difficult to reach because of the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq.”

Perhaps it is just me but didn’t the Army exceed its recruiting goals for a 13 consecutive month? This doesn’t include re-ups and all that idle stuff that is ignored by the MSM.

No matter, the NY Times source gives his own perspective on why he believes so many racists, gangbangers and neo-Nazi’s gravitate to the U.S. military.

Mr. Barfield said Army recruiters struggled last year to meet goals. “They don’t want to make a big deal again about neo-Nazis in the military,” he said, “because then parents who are already worried about their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they’ll be exposed to gangs and white supremacists.”

Funny, even though Barfield strains himself to get out the liberal anti-Military message I didn’t have too much trouble finding this 1995 Newsweek Weekly Journal article titled “LA street gangs infiltrate US army”. At least the Newsweek reporter put a hint of objectivity in the report.

Newsweek believes “the US military is inevitably affected by all the problems of society at large - including the spread of gang-related crime and violence”.

Which is the point after all. The military is made up of members of society just like Wall Street, the NY Times, the writers at the Daily Kos and everywhere else. A point that is conveniently lost on the NY Times because they are too busy publishing classified military defense secrets, attacking Christians and their religions, conjuring up white guilt and generally acting as un-American as one newspaper can be.

Related : House Democrats Team With Radical Leftists to Criticize Iraq War h/t Michelle Malkin

Captains Quarters Notes that the NY Times once again comes to bat for Hezbollah in NYT: Give Hezbollah What They Want

Blue Crab Boulevard has a slightly different take on the Times editorial although I believe that both BC and CQ agree in principle and come to the same conclusions.

The always excellent Flopping Aces has a great article titled The MSM Making It Up As They Go Along that fits well with the theme of this article although it applies to the MSM in general. It is a must read.