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New York Times hides WOT hero, again

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On the Corner of the National Review Online, Michael Ledeen spotted a three line, correction appended, Associated Press report about Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor in the online edition of the New York Times.

I have said it before yet it needs repeated:

Since 9/11, on all battlefields, more than 4,000 American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have earned and been awarded the top six medals for valor, the Bronze Star with ‘V’ device and higher. Conversely, the Times has written and published but four straight stories about the battlefield heroics of the War on Terror’s most highly decorated troops — and not one time has even their heroism made the Times’ front page.

Michael Monsoor:

“A California-based SEAL who threw his body on a grenade to save his comrades in Iraq will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor, a Defense Department official has confirmed. Master-at-Arms 2nd Class (SEAL) Michael A. Monsoor, of Garden Grove, Calif., was holed up on the roof of a Ramadi house with three other SEALs on Sept. 29, 2006, when an insurgent grenade landed nearby. Monsoor, a 25-year old with SEAL Team 3, grabbed the grenade and clutched it to his chest. The blast killed him, but his actions, officials said at the time, saved the men on the rooftop.”

This is how to honor a hero:

This is how to dishonor a hero (click on image to enlarge):

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Why did the Times and AP even bother?

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Not news: New York Times’ anti-Bush opinion on front page

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This is a screen capture of the top of the front page of today’s New York Times:

New York Times' anti-Bush opinion on front page February 12, 2008

This is a screen shot of the headline and link today on the front page of their online edition:

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Steven Lee Myers leads off his “news analysis” this way:

Harsh interrogations and Guantánamo Bay, secret prisons and warrantless eavesdropping, the war against Al Qaeda and the one in Iraq. On issue after issue, President Bush has showed little indication that he will shrink from the most controversial decisions of his tenure.

With the decision to charge six Guantánamo detainees with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and to seek the death penalty for the crimes, many of those issues will now be back in the spotlight. In an election year, that appears to be exactly where Mr. Bush wants the focus to be.

That seems a lot like an opinion to me.

Most respected newspapers refrain from placing commentary on their front pages. Yet the New York Times is, in terms of both self-restraint and respect, not one of those newspapers, in my humble opinion. You can read the rest and form your own.