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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:01:00 PM
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The portrait [feminist Betty Friedman] painted was chilling. For a typical woman of the 1950's, even a college-educated one, life centered almost exclusively on chores and children. She cooked and baked and bandaged and chauffeured and laundered and sewed. She did the mopping and the marketing and took her husband's gray flannel suit to the cleaners. She was happy to keep his dinner warm till he came wearily home from downtown." -- From Margalit Fox's February 6 obituary for left-wing feminist Betty Friedan.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:01:22 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224749

"Our government had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule of law and toward creating law-free zones at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, and other places around the world. And let's not forget the sustained assault on women's reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalism." -- Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse talking at Harvard, June 9.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:02:21 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224749

"The warnings of global warming that led former President George Bush to mock Mr. Gore as 'Ozone Man' in 1992 hardly seem far-fetched in these days of melting ice caps and toasty winters. Mr. Gore's tough condemnation of the war in Iraq, once derided by the White House as evidence of Mr. Gore's extremism, seems positively mainstream today." -- Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney, May 28.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:03:38 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224749

"All manner of televised talkfests, including 'Today,' welcome [Ann] Coulter's pirate sensibilities back aboard whenever she has something to peddle, in part because seeing hate-speech pop out of a blonde who knows her way around a black cocktail dress makes for compelling viewing. Without the total package, Ms. Coulter would be just one more nut living in Mom's basement. You can accuse her of cynicism all you want, but the fact that she is one of the leading political writers of our age says something about the rest of us." -- Media reporter turned columnist David Carr, June 12.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:09:06 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224749

Special Hypocrisy Section "Greed was on display throughout 2005 as throngs of executives pocketed pay that was even greater than the previous year's. To hear them talk, they deserved the amounts because -- are you sitting down? -- they enhanced shareholder value. Never mind that many of their companies' stocks ended the year lower than where they began it." -- Economics reporter/columnist Gretchen Morgenson, January 1. vs. "A year ago -- on Jan. 3, 2005 -- Times stock closed at 47.2. On Jan. 3, 2006, the stock was trading at a day's low of 26.16….the real surprise to staffers was, instead, the generous holiday handouts on the paper's 14th floor. In addition to [Times chief executive Janet] Robinson's 74,000 shares of free Class A stock, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. received 30,000 shares, worth a bit less than $800,000, plus stock options worth about $4.1 million." -- From the January 16 edition of the New York Observer.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:11:33 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Nope, No Bias Here "Augusto Pinochet, 91, Dictator Who Ruled by Terror in Chile, Dies" – Times Headline from December 11, 2006. vs. "Kim Il Sung, Enigmatic 'Great Leader' of North Korea for 5 Decades, Dies at 82." – Times Headline from July 10, 1994. No Bias Here, Part II " At the United Nations, [U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick] defended Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the American invasion of Grenada in 1983. She argued for El Salvador's right-wing junta and against Nicaragua’s left-wing ruling council , the Sandinistas." – From Tim Weiner for Jeane Kirkpatrick, December 9.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:12:45 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

U.S. "Tars" Castro as a Dictator? "Still, the Cuban authorities are eager to show off this school as a sign of the country’s compassion and its standing in the world. And some students cannot help responding to the sympathetic portrayal of Mr. Castro, whom the United States government tars as a dictator who suppresses his people." – Marc Lacey, December 8.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:13:50 PM
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Which Way Is It? "Study Finds Wealth Inequality Is Widening Worldwide." -- Headline over Eduardo Porter's December 6 article. vs. "Global inequality in wealth may well be somewhat lower today. The data in the report is six years old. Fast growth and wealth accumulation in China and India since 2000 are likely to have closed the average gap between the rich world and the poor." – From the text of Porter's article.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9276)	12/22/2006 8:15:21 PM
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Air America Bankrupt -- Times Again Ignores Loan from Boys & Girls Club A choice example of liberal hypocrisy is again ignored by the Times. Posted by: Clay Waters 12/18/2006 4:31:50 PM Monday's front-page Business story on Air America's bankruptcy (better late than never, given the left-wing radio network filed for bankruptcy protection two months ago) by Elizabeth Jensen and Lia Miller is headlined "After Bankruptcy Filing, Recriminations Fly at Air America." Michelle Malkin reminds us that Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer blog had the story -- including the tidbit about host Al Franken possibly running for Senate from Minnesota -- long ago. The Times does have loads of details about the business mistakes made by the network, but strangely, nothing at all about the investigation by the New York State attorney general's office into the Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club, whose mission it is to serve poor children, but made improper loans of $625,000 to the left-wing radio network that have apparently yet to be repaid by Air America. Yet this choice example of liberal hypocrisy (rich liberals stealing from poor children!) doesn't make the Times today. Perhaps the reporters made the mistake of relying on the paper's archive of Air America stories, given that the Times almost completely ignored the story when it broke in August 2005.