NYT Smears Peace Movement, Again (FAIR Action Alert)

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NYT Smears Peace Movement, Again
Newspaper invents Obama dig

8/24/07

In an August 21 New York Times story about Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama's talk to a veterans group the day before, reporter Jeff Zeleny attributed to Obama a dig at the anti-war movement that the Democratic candidate did not make.

After reporting that, "One of the biggest applause lines of his speech came when he pledged that during an Obama administration, veterans would not have to wait months — or years — for services at veterans hospitals," Zeleny added, "He also said it was wrong for anti-war activists to protest at military funerals, declaring: 'It needs to stop.'"

However, Obama never mentioned anti-war protestors in his speech, which is available as a video file on KCTV's website. Here's what Obama actually said about military funerals:

And our sacred trust does not end when service-members dies. The graves of our veterans are hallowed ground. When men and women who die in service to this country are laid to rest, as my grandfather was laid to rest, there must be no protests near the funerals. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

Zeleny presented no evidence that Obama was referring to anti-war protesters, who in any case have not been associated with protests at military funerals. However, several such demonstrations have been staged by the fanatically homophobic Westboro Baptist Church headed by Fred Phelps. These demonstrations celebrate soldiers' deaths as God's punishment for the military's toleration of gay troops under the "don't ask, don’t tell" rules, brandishing signs with slogans such as "Thank God for Dead Soldiers," "God Hates Fags" and "Thank God for IEDs."

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[David__77]

1. Scurrilous.

What a blatant example of lying or bad reporting, probably both.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Jeebus Christ on a crutch, is the MSM ever going to get tired of this?

This is on tape, and yet they still try to push it as being something it's not. :eyes: