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For anyone who thinks that the New York Times is anything like FoxNews (but a liberal version), check out this story that they broke, hacking a Democrat candidate for the US Senate into little pieces:
Blumenthal?s Words Differ From His History - NYTimes.com
Now, this guy totally deserves what he gets for lying about his military experience like that, and the Times was only telling it like it is, but FoxNews would have never broken a story like this about a Republican. Not in a million years.
That's the difference. The Wall Street Journal is the same way, outside of their editorial pages, or at least they were. Who knows what they may become now that Murdoch's in control.
Here's an excerpt:
They really nail him to the wall.
Blumenthal?s Words Differ From His History - NYTimes.com
Now, this guy totally deserves what he gets for lying about his military experience like that, and the Times was only telling it like it is, but FoxNews would have never broken a story like this about a Republican. Not in a million years.
That's the difference. The Wall Street Journal is the same way, outside of their editorial pages, or at least they were. Who knows what they may become now that Murdoch's in control.
Here's an excerpt:
“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”
There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records...
...what is striking about Mr. Blumenthal’s record is the contrast between the many steps he took that allowed him to avoid Vietnam, and the misleading way he often speaks about that period of his life now, especially when he is speaking at veterans’ ceremonies or other patriotic events.
Sometimes his remarks have been plainly untrue, as in his speech to the group in Norwalk. At other times, he has used more ambiguous language, but the impression left on audiences can be similar...
They really nail him to the wall.