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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7733)	10/27/2001 11:22:48 AM
From: BirdDog	Respond to of 281500

...piss poor leadership we are forced to endure. Here's a case in point. Beware, this stuff is mighty rich...... <w> I didn't find it a bit rich. In fact, I found it rather a dud. At least we now have someone spreading spores around Washington besides Bill Clinton..... :) BirdDog BTW People! I see we have nicely filled out the early morning hours with a light spattering of posts. I obviously have the 11am time frame covered.... :)

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7733)	10/27/2001 1:20:49 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Another opinion to your article (below)...The NY Times Frank Rich article you posted was a PERFECT example for the Propaganda thread... Take the entire article apart, sentence by sentence.....determine the slant/bias of each word in that sentence..... Then wonder what exactly a former theater critic actually KNOWS.... Here's another opinion: Defining Moments at the New York Times by Daniel Seligman New York Post \| September 7, 1999 A LOT OF WHAT APPEARS in the world's greatest liberal paper is blah that a chap might read anywhere. But there are also those recurrent "Timesian moments"—the point at which one realizes he is getting zinged again by that utterly distinctive, ineffably humorless, high-minded progressivism they keep pitching on 43rd Street between Broadway & Eighth. On what other block would columnist Frank Rich get 1,415 words to earnestly argue (Aug. 14) that "the country would . . . be happier today" if Bill Clinton had found time to undergo psychotherapy while in the White House? Astounding, eh? But possibly not for Rich, who had earlier (Oct. 7, 1998) scaled new heights in psycho-politico-therapeuticism with his finding that Washington's "real-men-don't-get-on-the-couch" mentality precluded treatment for congressmen who needed it and thereby fostered "shoddy public policy." Where but on the Times would one find editorial writers edging up to the Chinese theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos and getting mainly agitated about asserted racial profiling in the identification of suspects? Specifically giving hysterics to the editorial board on Aug. 20 was the possibility that investigators had landed on Wen Ho Lee not merely because of numerous security violations in his background, but also because he was an ethnic Chinese—a detail they were presumably not supposed to notice or think about. They were supposed to act as though ethnic Chinese with nuclear-weapon-test data were no more likely than ethnic Germans or Mexicans to transfer them to China, and in judging otherwise were guilty of "a repellent act of discrimination." Only on 43rd Street. Jason DeParle's recent (Aug. 29) front-page feature on welfare reform had quite a few Timesian moments. Being invincibly high-minded, the Times had of course opposed the reform, which reduced benefits and created powerful new incentives to get work. At one time or another, Times editorials labeled all this "Draconian" and "a grotesque assault on the poor," said it "creates child poverty," fulminated that it "is not reform, it is punishment," and judged it "simply wrong" to say that reform meant "welfare would be replaced by work." As everyone now knows, it proved to be simply right. Welfare dependency has tumbled, the rolls are down by almost 50 percent from 1994 levels, and the current big problem, in DeParle's view, is that the states are not properly using the huge windfall—it could total $22 billion by 2002—in federal payments they still receive, even as they run out of welfare recipients to spend it on. What do we do with this windfall? Evidently bolstered by the "advocates for the poor" he keeps quoting, Jason sees only one reasonable outcome: new and expanded anti-poverty programs for those still on the dole. The possibility that some or most of those unspent billions might get returned to the taxpayers gets near-invisible shrift. DeParle refers sneeringly to a Wisconsin program that did use part of its windfall to cut property taxes: This bow to homeowners benefited "the decidedly nonpoor." How Draconian. A subject the Times can't let go of is stereotypes. On the evidence of a Nexis search for the month of August, the paper's war against stereotypes features about one argument per day. Last month's output included an enthusiastic report (Aug. 9) on a "down and dirty" women's rock group said to be "moving beyond gender stereotypes." Also onstage was a long and weirdly sympathetic news story (Aug. 15) about a feminist professor at Boston College who is getting kicked out because her war on stereotypes somehow requires her to exclude males from her classroom. Also a strong entry in the fatuity sweepstakes was the highly affirmative report on Aug. 22 about an upcoming theatrical effort called "White Meat," identified as "an attempt to explode white male stereotypes, like the frat boy . . . and Wall Street guy." Sympathetically recounted the same day was the lament of Selena Fox, who said The Blair Witch Project was serving up offensive stereotypes of witches. The Times added, with utter solemnity, that Ms. Fox is herself a witch but prefers the term "Wicca," stated to be "preferred by "male and female American witches." How does a Times reporter cover a visit to a nudist colony? With a social conscience and high seriousness. Paul Zielbauer's Aug. 15 dispatch from the Empire Haven Nudist Park brings the good news—for nudists, if not Brooks Brothers—that nowadays "there is so much more acceptance" of people wandering around naked. Paul also finds that nudism is "a form of honesty," that nudists are now mainstream folks like Steve P., the ex-Marine and present accountant for a Big Five firm in lower Manhattan, that the omnipresent epidermis at Empire Haven "embodies family wholesomeness," and that, best of all, nudism's "negative stereotype" is fading. What a relief. And how typical of the Times that readers never learn whether the byliner telling them all this stuff kept his own pants on. frontpagemag.com Copyright 1999 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved