MAJOR distortion in NY Times

NYT claims ‘anti-war activists’ protest military funerals.

Editor and Publisher reports:

In a report [yesterday] on Sen. Barack Obama’s appearance this week at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleney took a decidedly wrong turn in referring to one statement.

Zeleney wrote that Obama “said it was wrong for anti-war activists to protest at military funerals, declaring: ‘It needs to stop’.”

The quote at the end was accurate but nowhere did Obama refer to the protesters as “anti-war activists.” In fact, the protesters who have caused much outrage have been anti-gay activists.

(Think Progress)
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Wow! That is an incredibly blatant distortion of the facts and of what Obama said. I certainly hope they retract this immediately, as this is inflamatory and is certain to give people a negative impression of Obama.