Posted on 12/03/2005 12:29:56 PM PST by mcdanielone
Tom DeFrank, the Washington Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News recently showed how the liberal media elite really feel about grassroots conservatives in his canned attack on "mindless" conservatives who had emailed him calling for the firing of leftwing Daily News White House correspondent Ken Bazinet.
Here, word for word is the email DeFrank sent to hundreds of members of LaptopAmerica.net:
"Thank you for contacting me on this subject. I'll say as respectfully as I can that I pay zero attention to letters generated by a central source with exactly the same language, word-for-word. If you want to engage in a serious dialogue, I'm happy to engage. One thing I don't like about my profession is that we're good at dishing it out but not so good at taking it. I can take it. But not when a point of view comes homogenized and pre-digested from more than 100 individuals who mindlessly pass on some canned language handed them by someone else. I seriously doubt that you and your colleagues have ever read anything else Ken Bazinet has ever written, so your suggestion that "time and again" he has slanted his copy is simply absurd. Make your case - but don't insult my intelligence - or yours. Please feel free to pass on this message to the rest of your chain-letter operation. Sincerely, Tom DeFrank"
Notice that in his canned response, DeFrank does not discuss the real issue the Laptop America email had raised: Bazinet's article attacking "gun-toting Minutemen vigilantes." As to the "canned" emails, DeFrank and his cohorts send out more than 800,000 canned newspapers every day of the week! DeFrank's email address is: tdefrank@edit.nydailynews.com.
mcdanielone
Since Dec 3, 2005
Ok. So what's your point?
First post is a vanity with no link. That's my point.
Ditto to maggie:
So what?
Maybe I am overly suspicious, but I always find it...curious...when a new person registers, posts something with no link to the source and exaults Freepers to spam some person or organization whom the newbie finds offensive.
It just makes me wonder whether or not we don't have a troll trying to set up FR as part of an internet harassment charge.
The guy is probably a nasty leftie, but I would ignore identical letters too.
You were expecting a link to an e-mail?
On the other hand, I have to agree that outrage over an e-mail should come from its recipients, or else from those who have seen its contents reproduced by a reliable source. But if that was your point, you should have stated it.
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The funniest Letters to the Editor page National Review ever published was subsequent to their 14 march 1997 issue, which had a cover depicting Bill and Hillary Clinton and Al Gore with slant eyes, grostesque buckteeth, and stereotypical garb. It is a disgusting insult to all Asian Americans the cover.
They simply printed all the objections using the above words - in many cases in that exact order.
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