Liberal Bias In the Times? Shocking!
When I normally talk about liberal bias in the media, I rarely am talking about a deliberate bias. I don’t think the media takes daily talking points from the Democratic party. I just believe that the editors and reporters just don’t realize how left of center their beliefs are. I don’t even have a problem with the bias per se, if they admitted it. Should we be surprised about a liberal bias when so much of our media coverage originates in Manhattan?
However, this week the New York Times did something so blatant, that they should put out an apology and admit they screwed up. A November 2 story about the Iraq war included these sentences from a late soldier’s letter home:
“I kind of predicted this … A third time just seemed like I’m pushing my chances.”
Seems kind of innocuouss right? Only if you haven’t seen the whole paragraph from which the sentences come from. This is what the soldier wrote:
“I kind of predicted this, that is why I’m writing this in November. A third time just seemed like I’m pushing my chances. I don’t regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it’s not to me. I’m here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark.”
With the added sentences, the soldiers sentiments are entirely different. The New York Times should be ashamed. This was obvious cherry-picking to promote a particular viewpoint. Absolutely shameful. I urge people to write letters taking the Times to task for just disgusting actions.
