We’ll call this the mother of all narrative fails. The very week that the NYT magazine runs a negative, anti-military cover story with a brooding graphic on the cover, the beast within the heart of the US Navy SEALs takes down the world’s worst terrorist. No kidding.
Beneath that cover over at the mag’s web site, we get this for a teaser:
The case against American soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians turns on the idea of a rogue unit. But what if the killings are a symptom of a deeper problem?
Well. The case of the New York Times trashing the military the very week that it efficiently takes down Osama bin Laden turns on some yellow journalism and awful timing. But what if the Times‘ releasing of US war plans before the invasion of Iraq, its cheerleading for the Soviets and the Viet Cong and whoever else happens to be against America at the moment, is a symptom of a deeper problem?
(thanks to gus)
Update: Blackfive drops in on the NYT magazine in the dead of night and does what needs to be done to their story.
The actions of the NYT ARE symptoms of a deeper problem.
There’s a beast in my heart and it loves tuna.
Is it true that the NYT employs only tunas?
Yeah, tuna fish, the chicken of the sea. The NYT just Can’t Understand Normal Thinking. It’s a common syndrome.
The most horriblileicient!
Of course when soldiers engaged in activities that offended the sensibilities of liberals at Abu Ghraib, it was the direct responsibility of the Bush Administration. Now that soldiers engage in something even worse during the Obama Administration, the problem is in the soldier themselves.
Ah, the narrative continues.
Excellent point.
A very excellent point.
Nail on the head.
There is a beast in the heart of all men and that is what civilization tries to organize. Our freedom as defined in our beautiful Constitution does the best job in history but our politicians and elites don’t believe we can export freedom. Billions for Pakistan and yet the First Amendment is explicitly denied there. Even the United Nations fights against our defined freedoms. Anyone wonder how a vote on the U.S. First Amendment would go in the General Assembly? In the Human Rights Councel with Syria now coming onboard? Why guess? Force a vote so the American people can see whether we want to continue supporting tyrannies. FOF.
They — the NYT — have some kind of a knack fot this. Maybe it’s “skill?” Or “luck?” Or pen in mouth disease. Or something.
Lede – Spetember 11, 2001 NYT Arts Section
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen
By DINITIA SMITH
Published: September 11, 2001
”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”
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This “paper’ doesn’t deserve to be fish wrap.
Once upon a time (when we were more grown-up) we took it for granted that “The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.” Now we take refuge in the childish illuson that these things only happen by accident. The new recruiting slogan for the Navy – “The U.S. Navy – A Global Force for Good” conveys the impression that naval personnel are more like global outreach social workers than men and women who will be called on to fight and often kill. (That slogan by the way is so puerile that only a New York Times writer could have thought of it.)
I notice that the headline clearly says “A Beast in the Heart of Every Fighting MAN!” I assume that the Times cannot bring themselves to believe that said bestiality can reside in the heart of the women-in-combat they continuously champion.
The women? Oh, no, apparently one in three of all service women are raped or assaulted by the men. And those are only the reported cases!
Which is why, of course, no more women are enlisting or reenlisting.
An inability to follow a logical chain is a prerequisite to write for the NYT.
Apparently???? Does that mean you read it in the Pravda or that you heard it from Chomsky’s mouth?
Not just the week–that’s the Sunday Magazine. The date at the top is THE date the Seals got bin Laden.
The problem is the decline and fall of the NYT, due to the alienation of it’s core market and constituency from America and Americans. The revenue and stock price of the NYT shows it’s become a boutique publication, not a mass market one, much less “America’s newspaper.”
The good news is that problem is increasingly irrelevant and is solving itself. The NYT says something? Who cares? Don’t read it. Don’t pay attention to it. Get your news from somewhere ese, like most Americans do. Leave the NYT to it’s shrinking niche or to find out what’s playing at the Roxy when you’re in Manhattan.
I was revolted by that cover but tried to read the article anyway. Unrelated, isolated incidents over many, many years were stitched together to smear the military and, by extension, men. The NYT demeaned and cruelly smeared millions of American men who fought and died to protect the craven, self-absorbed hypocrites who are the hallmark of the NYT. Vile, reprehensible, ignorant ideologues don’t begin to describe that mentality.
Deep within the heart of every Liberal-Progressive is a suicidal, self-centered, busy-body, manic-depressive. AKA: a Democrat.
Gentle people sleep peacefull in thier beds because rough soldiers stand ready at night to do violence upon those who would do them evil. (hat tip to Orwell)
To Defend
That is the Pact
But when Deterrence fails
And Innocent Blood is shed for Naught
Then Vengence
Becomes the Vow.
NYT pound sand….
(hat tip Heavy Metal)
Leftists are Timeshare Americans.
They don’t treat America as if they are “owners” of our common good, they simply reside here because they like the “spoils” we fight to keep alive.
The New York Timeshare…has its heart, loyalty and perpetual slant…for hard leftist nations…America not being among them. It has been printing the Daily Duranty slant for decades.
All that is right with America, they despise.
From my point of view…all that is wrong with America points directly at Timeshare Americans of every stripe. Pick an issue…and if it resonates from those who do not have America first in their hearts, but they are here only for the “spoils” and not for what she stands for and against…EVERY road leads down this same path.
The New York Timeshare…is the paper of record for these people.
I like to think of them as cockroaches in a cereal box. They stay so long as the cereal is plentiful. If you open the box and attack them, they don’t defend themselves–they scurry to the next cereal box. Once that one is almost empty and filled with cockroach crap, they move on to the next.
Hey, Photoshoppers, where’s the next NYT mag cover?
“A Drone within the Heart of Every Whining MSMer”
The killing of freedom and truth by the US reporters and what is says about the media.
Go for it.
Some things never change.
As a wee child some 60 years ago my dad would point out to me that the real slogan of the New York Times was “All The News That’s Fit To SLANT”
The New York Times is just another tool in Mr. Obama’s tool kit to generate chaos in the United States and make us ever more vulnerable.
Oh, right. Thanks for the reminder NYT. I’d almost forgotten why I loathe you. Here’s the deal. If we really are as bad as you like to pretend, how is it that you still exist?
Wasn’t it a woman photographed with the naked prisoners at Abu Ghraib?
I estimate that within 5 – 7 years the New York Times will be sold for a dollar just like Newsweek.
The New York Times, Since 1851: “Conscious Agents of the Communist Conspiracy”.
You’re welcome.
Good old WikiLeaks Times.
They really are disgusting in their anti-Americanism and anti-miilitary bull crap. I wouldn’t line my bird cage with that paper for fear my bird would turn on me.
Just because Osama was killed this week doesn’t make the story any less valid, that some of our troops go on murderous rampages for kicks. Of course, all of those troops are the same ones that loved Bush and cheered him with that fake turkey, and now they hate having to answer to a black President, who has shown how the military can be a force of good, as evidenced by Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
I plan on reading the article today and expect it to be the usual top-notch work out of the New Yorker.
Good God, is this “fake turkey” nonsense still around?
It’s egregious to say the troops “hate having to answer to a black President”. The military is perhaps the most racially-integrated large institution in our society. And Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was not given for any accomplishment, it was given for … I’ll have to do some research on that.
By the way, if you want to read the article, you’ll be disappointed when you go through the New Yorker. Try the New York Times.
WTF? Hate having to answer to a black president???? Did you forget that a lot of people serving in uniform are NOT caucasian? There is no such thing as race in the service. I was in the USMC for 5 years (98-03) and served in OEF and OIF. I PROUDLY served with every race and creed, and would give my LIFE to protect my fellow Marines, no matter their color. We were all brothers and sisters. Semper Fidelis!!! (that means Always Faithful, for all you who don’t habla)
2/10 for trolling. You lost a point with that last sentence, which sounded just a bit too much like satire to be taken seriously. Good try, though!
A problem here – for satire to be effective, it needs to be recognizable as satire. You sound too close to a basic garden variety leftist.
Of course, if you ask how it’s possible to satirize an attitude so hateful and disconnected from reality, I don’t have an answer for you.
I’m curious as to why the NYT Magazine doesn’t run an analogous story on Bill Ayers and the Weathermen speculating on the terrorist in every anti-war demonstrator? Maybe they could make it a series, including the Armstrong Brothers bomb in the ROTC building in Madison that murdered and maimed as a protest against Vietnam. They could call it “The Beasts Who Bomb For Peace.” Or perhaps a story on Ira Einhorn, one of the founders of Earth Day, who murdered his ex-girlfriend and kept her corpse in a trunk in his apartment for eighteen months. Perhaps they could title that, “The Beast In Every Environmentalist.”
“The Beast in the Heart of Every Liberal”
Now that’s an article that the New York Times needs to publish.
“…who has shown how the military can be a force of good”…
So Lincoln & Roosevelt didn’t use the military for a good purpose…like ending slavery or defeating fascism and imperialism?
How “bout yer boy Clinton? Were his actions in Bosnia good?
BTW – Obama is only HALF black!
You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom! You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives! You don’t want the truth, because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall! You need me on that wall! We use words like “honor”, “code”, “loyalty”. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline! I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said “Thank you,” and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
Col Jessep (A Few Good Men). The best response to this piece of crap liberal rag.
The NYT article is interesting when juxtaposed against the recent article on why American soldiers experience PTSD at higher rates than in other countries- which concluded in part that soldiers experienced PTSD because they had been “tricked” by their training into doing something the found morally reprehensible. If American soldiers are nothing more than killing machines, how is it that they are even capable of experiencing PTSD? If they were as devoid of conscience and human feeling, they would not be traumatized by the act of killing another human being.
It should be noted that this article was written by a person who likely has never had any experience with the military, and has never fired a weapon in anger. He has no idea what it’s like to take a human life, or tohave someone try to take his. It’s true, war is an ugly business which taps into the most primal, base instincts a human being has- to survive at all costs- but American soldiers are exemplary in their conduct on the battle field.
I think you make an excellent point. I think in addition to the author never having fired a weapon or been in the military, it is unlikely that he spent time in a bad neighborhood either. Lots of life is an ugly business, and we have allowed a pampered and protected class to speak on matters of which it knows nothing.
I think they have higher rates of PTSD because they are indoctrinated to believe they are supposed to. If they don’t suffer from it there’s something wrong with them.
Or so goes the narrative.
Under any sane legal system, NYT would have been prosecuted for exposing the government’s program for tracking terrorist income sources. What part of “treason” don’t they understand?
It disgusts me to see these pampered narcissists attacking people (often half their age) with far more maturity than they will ever have.
I wonder what kind of beast resides in the hearts of the NYT management.
The New Yok Slimes – All the news that’s fit to fold, spindle or mutilate!
What amazes me is that the Slimes and all the agenda-driven liberal media totally fail at history.
What institution is the first victim of despotism? The media!
It worked for others with dreams of controling the world, like Hitler, Stalin and Mao.
So maybe it will work for Soros, too.
Douglas MacArthur had a truer perspective of the American Soldier. To paraphrase:
“Duty,” “Honor,” “Country” — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you want to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean…
Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country…
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
i suggest the meatheads at the new york times look at micheal yon’s photo of a u.s. army officer weeping as he rushes a wounded iraqi child to a helicopter hoping to get her to treatment, he failed, she died, from an enemy bomb blast, but he tried. for those moments his whole life’s purpose was saving a child. this is a “beast”? no, i call him a man, and a better one than that “times” writer will ever be
John at Power Line debunked a similar NYT article a few years ago, with numbers: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/01/019533.php
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“I hate newspapermen…I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.”
“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”
–General William Tecumseh Sherman
31. Army guy “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Indeed.