Yes, the sheer incredulity with which the dextrosphere greeted this has impressed me. I hope that the serving military understands that we've been outraged by the way they're being ignored and mistreated by the press, and that we really do care.

I'd like to see this pushed, hard, in the next few days, before it fades from public consciousness and the latest outrage takes over.

Oy, Ace. Isn't this the perfect place to mention Carrie and David McDonnall as well? Or haven't you read my email yet? :P

The Pentagon got badly burned by touting Jessica Lynch as a war hero. And their Tillman lies didn't help.

Still, it wouldn't hurt to have some award ceremonies for bravery. With live soldiers. Not posthumous awards.

Cool. :) Thanks Ace.

Sounds like you've got a potential guest for your radio gig, eh?

Talk about killing your parents and then whining to the judge that you're an orphan.

Damn ACE - You're on fucking fire!

I saw Pissy Pelosi on TV for a few seconds yesterday saying: right after 911 we were united as a nation, but due to George Bush's policies this nation is divided ... At that point I had to say as Popye used to say: that's all I can stand, I can't stands no more!

A quick visit to any one of about 50 blogs will find more than enough heros to fill the NYT pages for a year.

The real question of course - is would actual heros want to be written up in such a fish wrapper anyway? The people who really care about what's going on already know.

Yon alone could provide them with more than enough materiel.

"What sort of newspaper has time or resources for that kind of tedious detective-work?"

Yeah, that would be almost as hard as, like, fact checking and stuff.

Neil Prakash - a nice kid from an immigrant ethnic minority who one day decides that commanding a platoon of a 65 ton killing machines would be a lot cooler than med school. I agree.

Silver Star - and not the cheap-ass John Kerry kind for (maybe) being a lifegaurd at best.

Nice post, but it and the comments are I think "missing the forest for the trees":

The nyt is Quisling Central - it wants the US to lose PERIOD and will do nothing to support our efforts against terrorists.

For the nyt the enemy is not Osama or Saddam or any number of mad mullahs or North Korea - the enemy is Republicans, Christians, right-to-lifers and people who believe in fighting back. This post just highlights one of the countless ways the nyt has undermined our efforts.

Since at least Walter Duranty on, when it has really counted the nyt has objectively been on the side of evil. Why should it stop now?

I did a search on one of the heroes mentioned in the Times piece.

The Times ran the story of the first Medal of Honor Winner on page 13 of the late edition.

Did you even read the article? Obviously not.

The problem of course is that the Paper of Record hasn't found any soldiers who are both heroes and willing to denounce Chimpy. I'm sure once they find one, the entire world will know about him/her.

I suspect that Damien Cave knows perfectly well where the blame lies. He also knows that if he puts the blame where it belongs in a story, the NYT will never print the story. So he writes a story with an obvious NYT-shaped hole in it, and lets the readers figure it out.