more dowdy times

maybe maureen dowd isn't as irrelevant as i believed...
her style of selective writing appears to be spreading at the NY Times....

following up on an entry by michelle malkin regarding a NYTimes '2000 dead' story which cherry-picking the words of fallen soldier Jeffrey B. Starr's to fit the Times' anti-war agenda,

"Obviously if you are reading this then I have died in Iraq. I kind of predicted this, that is why I'm writing this in November. A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances."

the times stops there...
but the NYPost relates the rest of the story....

Timothy Lickness a relative of Cpl Starr did not appreciate the Times focusing solely on a awareness of death, leaving out noble sentiments:

I don't regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark."

the family does not appear to chalk up the omission to anything malicious....
there much kinder than i...

¶ - nitish @ 12:18 PM