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« Boff! Plame! Blam! | Main | Doing the Dishes, Taking Out the Trash » October 28, 2005
Another Must-Read
Posted by Bill A reader's response to selective editing at the New York Times: I know it just kills you guys to think that overwhelmingly our soldiers actually, consciously support the war, are perfectly aware of the dangers they face, and are as perfectly prepared to face them. I know it comforts all the Timesmen and women to think that soldiers are just sad, pathetic, barely literate dupes (when they aren’t being babykillers and Koran flushers), but in fact the soldiers view their lives as imbued with transcendent meaning, apparently something no Times reporter can claim. Maybe it’s just envy on the part of all your reporters that these American teenagers in uniform make history every day of their lives, while you all just continue to transparently twist the news and to accumulate contempt from the American people, which is now compounding at a daily rate. Of course, the original, truncated letter that inspired the rebuke is the main event: 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. Posted by Bill at October 28, 2005 10:28 PM | TrackBack (2) Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsThere is a special place in hell for the writers and editors of the Times... Posted by: Becker at October 29, 2005 02:15 AM That ommission is just such a perfect statement about everything wrong with the NYT. I mean, you can just picture the editors reading over the letter and saying "Well! We'll just snip that right out, won't we?" They've really become a caricature of themsleves. Posted by: TallDave at October 30, 2005 12:00 AM They are beyond charicature, they are in the center of pure evil now. Posted by: Robin Roberts at October 30, 2005 05:09 PM "Pure evil(?)" A bit hyperbolic, don't you think? Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 30, 2005 06:29 PM Not at all, Bill. Satan, Lizzie Borden, Stalin, and Vishnu are all listed in the masthead. PURE EVIL in liquid form flows from every pore instead of sweat or blood from every satanic communofascist that works for that wretched paper. VOTE BUCHANAN! Posted by: Foster at October 30, 2005 07:23 PM Not really, Bill. They are continually sucking off these men's deaths for their little petty ideological hatreds. Posted by: Robin Roberts at October 30, 2005 09:23 PM But that's not the purest evil ... Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 30, 2005 10:02 PM |
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