[Sub-Driver]

read on......and don't have food in your mouth.

[saganite]

Why not? The writer has his foot in his mouth! Oh, you said food. Never mind.

[blogblogginaway]

LOL LOL LOL..................oh my sides!

[popdonnelly]

It brought a tear to my eye }:)

Translation: The Puritans at the New York Times have found a witch to burn at the stake.

[Bahbah]

Keller is trying to save a dying enterprise. Not doing a very good job, imo.

[twntaipan]

When the NYSlimes goes bankrupt or comes under new management (and is fair and balanced) I will...

...double my monthly pledge to FReepublic!

Who will join me?

[popdonnelly]

Maybe his apologies for Joe Wilson's whoppers will be in the next e-mail.

[pabianice]

Dear Bill:

You are a lousy liar but an excellent coward.

Regards,

pabianice

p.s. you don't write so good, either

[jimbo123]

[Pessimist]

"..but only to the degree that the reporter has lived up to his or her end of the bargain, specifically to have conducted him or herself in a way consistent with our legal, ethical and journalistic standards.."

Is it physically possible to set the bar that low?

[Pessimist]

"The paper had just been through a major trauma, the Jayson Blair episode, and needed to regain its equilibrium."

"Needed to regain its equillibrium."

Man, If I could spin like that, I might have a career in politics.

[syriacus]

I wish I had chosen..we wish we had made....I wish we had dealt....I wish that when I learned...

This sounds like a letter from a misbehaving 6 -year-old to Santa Claus.

Lame excuses run rampant in this email.

[toddlintown]

What'd he say?

[syriacus]

Keller could have saved everyone a lot of time if he had been more honest and had written these 8 words

"Don't blame me....It's all George Bush's fault."

[Wuli]

Thanks for the post.

I had a pretty frustrating day and getting a good hardy laugh has eased the tension and now I can go enjoy my dinner.

Mr. Keller at least remains true to himself - very unintelligent and highly delusional; but of course living in their own delusions is the only way they can remain liberals.

[mattdono]

Until Fitzgerald came after her, I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.

Hmm...Let's see...

1. NYT is a liberal rag
2. Judith Miller is a lying sack of crap liberal that spent a little time in jail to protect, in all likelihood, Joe Wilson himself
3. Joe Wilson published his now infamous "What I didn't find in Africa" article in...yes, of course, The New York Times

And now, the executive editor of the NY Times is saying, AS FACT, there is an "anti-Wilson whisper campaign"?

This would be funny, except that almost everything that this leftist kooks think up at midnight gets regurgitated for the next 36 hours in the new cycle...whether it is true or not.

Internet or not, NYT is still an (uncessarily) influential position in this country. And, even though FR has some people who aren't willing to face some of the realities and shortcomings in the current administration, at least we got this Wilson-Plame garbage tacked down from the get go: it is hogwash of the highest order.

(NOTE: Anyone who is interested in knowing EXACTLY how this Wilson-Plame thing was planned from the get-go, and tacitly involved NYT and WashPost staff writers, needs to read FREEPER Wolfstar's post Set up? Anatomy of the contrived Wilson "scandal". For newbies on FR, you need to check it out; and for those of us who have been here a long time, read it again.

The plan involved Wilson, Plame, Walter Pincus, David Corn, and Judith Miller. And, FREEPER Wolfstar isn't the only one who can provide more than sufficient evidence that this is the case (CLICK HERE for Cliff May's article).

Look, I'm upset at the administration for lots of different reasons, but this Wilson thing was planned and it's bogus regardless of my differences with the administration's policies.

[Tzimisce]

Dear Readers,

We lied, distorted and covered up the truth to try and force a left wing agenda on the American public. Unfortunately, we've been ratted out now so all we can say is "Oops, our bad."

As Sincere as a Clinton,

Editor of NYT

PS - PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE COME BACK AND READ OUR PAPER. We'll try to behave from now on, honest!

[Albion Wilde]

Snivel, snivel, snivel, (sucking sound) (sucking sound) (sucking sound), snivel, snivel, snivel, (sucking sound)....

[socialismisinsidious]

typical liberal crap...a bunch of excuses but NO solutions.

and this says volumes: " Yet it is excruciating to withhold information of value to our readers, especially when rival publications are unconstrained."

read: whine, whine, whine--'it's not fair that everyone else is unconstrained...we need to level the playing field somehow'

[ChadGore]

Loosing Share?
Try the truth!

[bert]

.....Judy seems to have misled Phil Taubman about the extent of her involvement......

She lied during confession. There'll be hell to pay.