[mass55th]

According to John Scott who is on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, the New York Times wrongly (so what's new?) reported that the pilot grabbed the fourth & last cable. It WAS the fourth cable, but it wasn't the last. It was actually the first. The cables are numbered 4,3,2,1. The numbers start with 4 from the first cable at the approach end of the carrier and go down to 1. The New York Times just can't stop their bias with our President!!

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

The numbers start with 4 from the first cable at the approach end of the carrier and go down to 1. The New York Times just can't stop their bias with our President!!

Wrong. The approach end of the carrier is the stern of the ship. From the stern forward, the cables are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4. They snagged the last cable, number 4.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I missed this fact, as did every newscast on last night's TV news. I thought the 4th was the last.

[george wythe]

The cables are numbered 4,3,2,1. The numbers start with 4 from the first cable at the approach end of the carrier and go down to 1.

Thank you for the clarification.

Maybe the NYT will post a correction later this week in very fine print

[Donna Lee Nardo]

And I see cnn can't stop their bias either because instead of running the wonderful positive footage of our wonderful GWB aboard the U.S.S. George Washinton, they keep harping on the comparison of GWB to the first President Bush that they sooooo want to happen. Their segments keep pointing out how good GWB's father's poll numbers were after the first Gulf War and how it didn't help him in the end (cnn keeps emphasizing that last part, the morons). I guess cnn and the other liberal press think the more often they talk about this "comparison" (replete with footage of the first Pres. Bush smiling and hand shaking with the Gulf War I soldiers), the more they can wish a demoncrat into the presidency in 2004, as if their idiotic repeated chanting is magic or something.

[FreeperinRATcage]

The guy caught the 4 cable? Umm....that is NOT a good trap.