Via Powerline:
From the corrections section of yesterday’s New York Times:
An article and a picture caption yesterday about the funeral of Sgt. Jose Gomez of Queens, who was killed on April 20 in Iraq, referred incorrectly to the Army representative who comforted his mother. She was a sergeant first class — an enlisted woman, not an officer. The article also misstated the name of a service medal that a general presented to Sergeant Gomez’s mother. It is a Purple Heart, not a Purple Star.
Wow. A “Purple Star”. Way to go, New York Times. I’ll take the rest of your articles on military matters -about standing up Iraqi battalions, to recruiting, to military morale, to battlefield dispatches -with an even MORE GIGANTIC grain of salt than before.
In fact, an idea just hit me! Op-For will now establish the prestigious “Purple Star” award for reporters who publish a military story that is out-of-whack.
I predict many of these.
You better have those “Purple Stars” struck by the trainload. You’re going to need a boat load.
I don’t think there is a single person in the NY Times newsroom, or the Wshington Post, or the LA Times, or all the rest of the MSM who has ever served a minute in the military. In fact, they act so uniform phobic I suspect they wouldn’t even join the Cub Scouts.
But you can ALWAYS count on them for a high level of military expertise. Odne of my Gunnery Sergeants always called them “Sexual Intellectuals.” As he said, they were ALL a bunch of F**k’n know it alls!
But you know the motto of the NY Times, “All the news that’s print to fit”…print to fit their preconceived notions.
Marine6 – Out
I think you’re going to be need a huge supply of Purple Stars :)
That’s even better than the ‘Bradley tank’ or ‘the SAW has a heavy trigger’ comments. You’ll probably have to requisition a metric s*** load of them.
How hard is it too not use Purple Heart? That’s not an obscure medal, known only to military personnel. It’s part of the everyday lexicon of America. To mess that up, a reporter doesn’t need to only be ignorant of the US military, that idiot has to be ignorant of American popular culture.
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