The NY Times Drops The Mask
By Mark on NY Times/Media Watch
Decision '08
No longer offering even the pretense of non-partisanship, the New York Times under the stewardship of Bill Keller, Jill Abramson, and Gail Collins has become a virtual wing of the Democratic National Committee. Today’s editorial entitled President Bush’s Walkabout is remarkably venomous; indeed, I’m not sure I can recall an editorial from a major paper this openly hostile about a sitting president:
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After President Bush’s disastrous visit to Latin America, it’s unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run. An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front. But the rest of the world simply can’t afford an American government this bad for that long.
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Read that last sentence again, and let the implications, ALL of the implications, sink in.
That’s nothing next to the contempt the Times feels for Cheney, though:
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The place to begin is with Dick Cheney, the dark force behind many of the administration’s most disastrous policies, like the Iraq invasion and the stubborn resistance to energy conservation. Right now, the vice president is devoting himself to beating back Congressional legislation that would prohibit the torture of prisoners. This is truly a remarkable set of priorities: his former chief aide was indicted, Mr. Cheney’s back is against the wall, and he’s declared war on the Geneva Conventions.
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The dark force? The Times wouldn’t dream of using the world ‘Muslim’ next to extremist, but they speak of the Vice President of the United States as if he is Satan himself.
How fast can a newspaper fall from the highest heights to the lowest depths? The self-destruction of the Times is a sight to behold…
UPDATE 3:15 p.m.: Academic Elephant has more, including an excellent comparison between the views of the Times and the Wall Street Journal…
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