Rant on, Bill. On one side, you've got Fox News, the Washington Times, the WSJ editorial page, the Washington Times, Rush, Drudge, and legions of bloviating pundits and warbloggers blaring out the neocon/Israeli lobby line with never the least concern for balance (except in the Orwellian "fair and balanced" Fox News sense). On the other side, you got the NYT, which has allegedly failed to follow affirmative action for right wing bloviators among its reportorial ranks. The NYT still prints all these long articles that assiduously quote sources on both sides, but that doesn't matter to the right wing whiners. It's all a subtle liberal conspiracy.
It must really rankle the bloviating ranks that despite the right wing dominance among the "opinion" faction of the media, more people voted for Gore than for W. They gotta blame that on somebody, I guess, the NYT is as good a candidate as any.
It's all a joke. It'll be a really bad joke if the neocons succeed in bogging us down in the broad Middle East occupation they're pushing for so assiduously, but that's life. What the heck, maybe the local beyond the fringe element is right, and all those nefarious Arab minds are secretly longing for a Hashemite restoration, and will peacefully unite behind anybody of that lineage we chose to install. Hey, it could happen. |
