More on Army Times Editorial Manipulation

Now here's an interesting item from the New York Times as posted by Drudge. It's entitled "Bush Trumpets Iraq Verdict to Rally Support." Yep, it appears that the nefarious Chimpy BushMcHitler might actually be trying to get some campaign mileage out of the fact that we are actually having success in pursuing our goals in the Global War on Terror, aka WW III, of which Iraq is just a long battle. Of course, the Times itself has been "trumpeting" every GI death, particularly the ones over the last 60 days, as a way of defeating the Bush philosophy and getting us to cut and run, thus pleasing the European faux intellectuals and the Islamofascists.

But I digress.

The really interesting thing in this piece is the following anecdote:

Representative John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has become the face of his party’s opposition to the war in Iraq, said the verdict was the right one but predicted it would not make a difference in this campaign. What would matter more, Mr. Murtha said, were editorials in military papers being published Monday calling for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

“When The Army Times, The Navy Times, The Marine Corps Times, they have all said that we’re not supporting the troops, that they’re losing confidence with the administration, that’s what’s important,” Mr. Murtha said, campaigning in Croydon, Pa., outside Philadelphia, for Patrick Murphy, a Democrat seeking to unseat Representative Michael G. Fitzpatrick.

Interesting, no? It backs up the observations we made yesterday about the Gannett leftists who now own the three military newspapers cited, a fact, we noted, that was happily "trumpeted" by CNN yesterday. Murtha approvingly cites these "military" newspapers, which, under Gannett's ownership, are turning, like most of the MSM already has, into shills for the Democratic Party. Circulation at all three papers, which are not actually affiliated with the U. S. armed forces, has declined under Gannett ownership, and one can only speculate as to why the company purchased them, except, perhaps, to further subvert current and former armed forces members who might subscribe. We predict a further decline in their circulation. The armed forces, far more intelligent than John "D-student" Kerry, know BS when they see it.