Could this be the final nail in the scandal-ridden coffin for the New York Times? It should be. The Times will join Dan Rather on the scrapheap of journalistic ineptitude. In their Sunday Magazine, the Times printed an article about a woman claiming to have been raped twice in Iraq and received brain damage from an IED hitting her Humvee.
What’s wrong with this? Well, first of all the woman never served in Iraq. Secondly, the vaunted NY Times knew the story was factually wrong six days prior to distribution. According to Rick Leventhal of Fox News,
The newspaper knew about the mistakes on March 12, six days before the magazine was distributed, and 13 days before it published the correction. The magazine was printed on March 9 — three days before the lies were discovered — but there was still plenty of time to reprint it. The cost might’ve been huge, but wouldn’t it be worth it for a paper whose masthead proclaims “All the News That’s Fit to Print?”
The retraction appeared ONE WEEK after everyone had received their paper and thirteen days after knowing of the lies. It is disgraceful for any journalist to not check facts and then ignore the truth when it is discovered. It appears the mainstream media feels it has failed to promote the liberal agenda through legitimate reporting so now it has decided to outright lie to us. If they are anything like Dan Rather, they will probably feel that the story is true in spirit even if the facts don’t support it. Liberals will stop at nothing to undermine our military and our security for political gain.
We need to start waking up and realize the danger that lies within our own borders. I saw Newt Gingrich, a student of American History, last night on O’Reilly and he said something very profound. The country has not been this divided since the Civil War. He also said there is a growing faction in the U.S. that would truly be devastated if the United States is eventually successful in securing peace in Iraq.
“We are drifting,” Gingrich said, ” into the most divisive period in America since the Civil War. We have people out there who actively hope the United States will be defeated, and it is stunningly undermining to have people who are eager for the other side to win. If Republicans in Congress would offer a resolution condemning anyone who would burn an American soldier in effigy and calling for their prosecution, that would force the left in Congress to make a decision. This is about undermining and defaming America at a time when young men and women are risking their lives for this country.”
Think about the truth and danger in that statement.
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