Media Bias Alert

I'm a little late on this once, but once again, the October 17th LA Times is putting words into people's mouths. This time, the victim is General Boykin, a Christian, who gave some church talks. Read a summary by Hugh Hewitt of the event here and a flip commentary by Lileks. Hewitt does some follow work during in the ensuing days.

Apparently the LAT accuses Boykin of using the term, "Christian jihad" when he clearly did not. However, the general will no longer give talks on his faith and Hewitt sums this consequence:

That in turns sends a message not just in the Pentagon but throughout the land: Express your religious beliefs and you are going to be on the front page getting smashed up and blind-sided by half-truths and fake quote marks. Then a day later the paper will viciously equate you with the world's most notorious anti-Semite[, the Malaysian Prime Minister].