More Junk Journalism from the NY Times
Once again the NY Times is showing it's true colors with the latest cheap shot against Senator McCain. Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey takes a look at what they're trying to pull now. In this junk journalism episode, they're now questioning whether Senator McCain's particular Vietnam experience is the reason why he (wrongly in their eyes) supports the War in Iraq.
In the New York Times’ upcoming edition of their Sunday magazine, they take a look at John McCain’s divergent views of the Iraq War from those of his fellow Vietnam veterans. In The McCain Doctrines, Matt Bai reports that most of these colleagues (with the noted exception of Bob Kerrey) attribute McCain’s support for Iraq to the fact that he didn’t serve on the ground in Vietnam — and that his years as a POW somehow “sealed” him away from the war’s lessons:
It's amazing folks. It's like having a political party war room that sits over there and spends every waking moment wondering how they can subvert McCain's candidacy. The problem is, they're supposed to be a paper of objective journalists giving us all the news that's fit to print! Fat chance on that....
Follow this link to get the rest of the story from Captain Ed.
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I had read the entire 8 page report by Bia and was gathering some notes and reasearch before I clicked on Hotair and started reading Morrissey's post. It appears that great minds think alike! :) Ed focused on the same nuggets that I had been trying to use to form a proper sentence in rebutle to Bia's assertions.
The article is long but worth reading just to be informed about what the inevitable fallout may be. I am particularly suspicious of the terms "Occupation" (Occupiers) and "Iraqization". I think the Left may have moved from attacking McCain's age and turned the page backwards to their tired mantra of opposing the War in Iraq. That would fit perfectly with the emminent selection of Barack Obama as the Democrat nominee. I believe you will be hearing those "buzz words" a lot this week.