Where would we be without the New York Slimes?

Ed Lasky, over at The American Thinker writes about 'NYT columnist Bob Herbert's moral inversion';

Op-ed columnist Bob Herbert equates ($link) Israeli and American killing of innocents to Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda murdering The moral inversion at work at the New York Times is truly amazing.

But the unnecessary slaughter of innocents, whether by Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, American forces in Iraq or the Israeli defense forces, is always wrong, and should never be tolerated. So civilized people cannot in good conscience stand by and silently watch as hundreds of innocents are killed and thousands more threatened by the spasm of destruction unleashed by Israel in Lebanon. [....]

He writes of Israel’s supposed ”wanton killing civilians, including babies and children,” ignoring Israel’s attempts to target only military targets, and Hezbolla, precisely to ensure that “civilians, including babies” are hit. Lebanon has had quite a lot of time after the Syrians were withdrawn to act against Hezbollah and help to stabilize their nation. They refused to act.

Clueless is as clueless does. Does Bob Herbert really think that the terrorists will ever engage in civilized behavior? Does he have any credible evidence that Israel or the US military intentionally targets civilians or that their Rules of Engagement (ROE) fails to consider civilians?

Give me a break.

This moral equivalence myth continues to get huge mileage from the elitist, leftist MSM. Why? Are they as dumb as they think we are? They know that both American & Israeli forces go out of their way to avoid civilian casualties, often placing themselves at risk in the process. These same journalists also know that these terrorists intentionally target civilians while they themselves dress as civilians, hide among civilians & use civilians as human shields.

These same journalists constantly remind us about their layers of fact checkers, editors & their objectivity. They also insist they aren't biased. Well, the evidence points to a lot of assertions from the MSM that are at odds with the facts. Isn't it interesting that many of those incorrect assertions almost always go in one direction - against the Bush Admin, conservatives, the military, Israel & their military?

Me thinks that MSM assertions of objectivity & fact checking aren't what they claim it to be.