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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (65048)	3/25/2008 2:36:53 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Just stupid: the NYT editorial board By podcasts@redstate.com (Redstate Network) on Spitzer On the same day when the New York Times heaps love on the corrupt, criminal pervert who once was their beloved governor, they blame President Bush for things beyond a president's control. From the Spitzer editorial: <<< It is still important to separate Mr. Spitzer’s personal and political failings from the worthwhile things he did, or hoped to, accomplish. As attorney general, he worked hard to make Wall Street a safer place for the little guy and helped craft an agreement to get cleaner air in the Northeast. As governor, he was working to open one of the nation’s most opaque state budgets and reform one of the most unfair campaign financing systems. >>> Yeah, they did it for Like Bill Clinton of recent memory; now, it's Eliot Spitzer's turn to receive credit from the NYT for things which never happened or Spitzer did not himself do. Meanwhile, in another of today's editorials, the doltish souls on that editorial board preach that our dependency on foreign oil is the fault of President Bush: <<< The Bush administration can’t be entirely blamed for the pain at the gas pump. But its shortsighted energy policies — zealously focused on increasing the energy supply, with little attention paid to conservation and greater fuel-efficiency — means the country is far too dependent on oil that is both ruinously expensive and ruinous for the environment. >>> They say that the White House is run by "oilmen," and they insinuate that the purpose of this administration was to protect oilmen from the dangers of Cape Cod wind farms. (No, that's Teddy Kennedy, you sillies.) They expect that their readers, some of whom are intelligent and/or decently educated, will follow these puerile arguments and agree: "Gol, those Times guys are so smart, Oracle at 'Delphia. Yep, boy howdy, I sure agree with those observations!" The editorial team of the New York Times has become rare, and in some ways, a perverse ideal. If we could assemble history's finest parodists, they could create no better send-up than the actual words of the Times editorial board. They are an ideal example of self-parody, and one leading to inevitable self-destruction at that. They discuss additional examples of Spitzer's perfidy and corruption then boast that he at least tried "to make Wall Street a safer place for the little guy." Who's the little guy and how is Wall Street safer for him if it were unsafe in the first place? They explain that oil prices are high because Bush tanked the U.S. stock market so investors buy oil commodities instead. I'm not an expert on such things, but I do know that gas prices went through most of their increases while the stock market was setting record highs. How does one follow and buy into this dross? But that's the NYT editorial board. The people most influenced by the wisdumb of the editorial board are the "news reporters," who dutifully reflect the board's careless vapidity in their political "news" stories. It is as if all Times employees are components of The Borg, set by its creators to self-destruct with dying, silly wails. redstate.com