As long as we're on fake news, a deliciously sarcastic smackdown of the Gray Lady's Haditha coverage.
What a difference a year has made since charges came down at the end of 2006. The New York Times in October mourned — I mean, noted — the shift: "Last year, when accounts of the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha by a group of Marines came to light, it seemed that the Iraq war had produced its defining atrocity, just as the conflict in Vietnam had spawned the My Lai massacre a generation ago."No "defining atrocity"? That's too bad. The Times went on to lament— I mean, report — that the presiding military investigator recommended that murder charges against the ranking enlisted Marine, Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, be dropped. And this, the newspaper bellyached, "may well have ended prosecutors' chances of winning any murder convictions in the killings."
Can't have innocent Marines now, can we?
Let's go for the hat trick: this Russian scientist says invest in fur, salt and heating oil because it's a global coldening that's on its way.All of which reminds me to post this from Scrappleface, which is amusing yet true. He pictures Fred Thompson wondering if journalists have enough fire in the belly:
Mr. Thompson said most reporting on the race fits one of three categories:I'd like to laugh!
1) Results of the latest opinion poll.
2) Embarrassing gaffes and nasty remarks.
3) Reaction to one of the above.
“I’m not sure if it’s laziness, lack of ambition, or just apathy,” said Mr. Thompson, “But the American people need to know that the reporters whom they entrust with this solemn responsibility have a burning desire to fulfill the obligations of the Fourth Estate. That means you need to hustle, do your homework, ask tough questions about significant issues, put quotations in context, filter out your own natural bias, and place more value on accuracy than on speed, more on integrity than on your own petty celebrity.”
