MSM Slant-A-Thon IV: Bury It
By BummerDietz
The editorial powers at the New York Times believe that effective world collectivist government, rather than US-led nation-state power, is appropriate.
Look today in the NYTimes, page A8 of the National Edition. A big story is buried there. The Director of the Iraqi Graft Fund to Bribe European Governments, also known by its diplomatic name "Oil-for-Food", years after the fact, has been thrown out of the UN:
NEW YORK (AP) -- The former chief of the Iraq oil-for-food program resigned a day before investigators were to release a report that is expected to accuse him of taking kickbacks under the $64 billion humanitarian operation.
OK, so bury the story on page A8. I guess we expect that from the MSM. So long as it runs an in-depth analysis of the ramifications of the scandal, to wit: "What negative consequences resulted from this bribery? Would the Iraq War have been necessary if the Hussein regime had not been funneled billions of dollars through the program? Would France and Germany have presented a unified UN Security Council front against Saddam in early 2003, had the bribes not existed?"
There's a Pulitzer Prize awaiting ... .
Alas, no. The New York Times instead uses more column inches in denouncing the scandal as a witch-hunt, than asking real questions:
In his letter, Sevan lashed out at Annan and said the oil-for-food program was far better run than the Development Fund for Iraq, the U.S., British, and later Iraqi-run operation that replaced it after the fall of Saddam's regime in 2003. Auditors have said billions of dollars in DFI money has been mismanaged and contracts were awarded without competitive bidding. ''The real Oil-for-Food 'scandal' is in the distortion and misrepresentation of the accomplishments and the record of the program by now well-established U.N. bashers,'' Sevan wrote.
The NYTimes cannot dig into this story. To do so would be harmful to its editorial bias in favor of international organizations like the UN. |
