TNR Retracts in Typical Leftard Snakelike Fashion

The lie. Recanted. And now four months later, a fourteen page thumbsucking, narcisstic, whiney, retraction can be found here but this comment boils it all down to its essential oils.

As an enlisted soldier, it doesn't bother me that you would publish a junior enlisted soldier's stories. It doesn't bother me that you would stand by them until you had good reason to retract. What bothers me is that you decided an obviously immature young person with salacious stories was the best person to represent the American soldier's point of view in your internationally read magazine. This cannot be the only person's stories you received. There are over 100,000 of us deployed. Even if it were, you did not have to publish. Your choice is the most telling, not his."

Leave it to a soldier to tell the truth to an enemy of soldiers.  Sadly, leave it to the enemy of soldiers not to acknowledge that truth. hat tip Carolyn

Comments

[Francis W. Porretto]

The Old Media are fouling their own nests with speed and efficiency. The Anchoress has just noted how they fawn over the Clintons in an ever-more-obvious way, which might destroy the press's remaining claims to objectivity and trustworthiness more effectively than it aids Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign. (Apropos of nothing, I recommend always referring to that candidate as "Mrs. Clinton." It keeps the memories fresh.)

All that having been said, it remains important that we highlight these Old Media departures from probity. The American public should know what its "professional journalists" believe themselves licensed to do -- and to whom, and for whom.