NYT misleads again

The New York Times decides accurate reporting is for the birds and precede to post this image on their website (they've taken it down now):


Here's the caption: "Pakistani men with the remains of a missile fired at a house in the Bajur tribal zone near the Afghan border."

The article that accompanied the picture refers to a failed missile attack by a Predator drone to take out al Qaeda’s #2 man al Zawahiri. The problem is, that's no missile in the photo, it's an artillery shell that could not possibly have been fired from a Predator drone.

In other words, the caption is bullshit.

Thomas Lifson at American Thinker has more.

Are the people at NYT so out of touch they don't think someone will spot this shit? It's the 21st century people. Information spreads like wildfire, and responses to bullshit information like this spread even more so.

Hat tip Michelle Malkin.