Posted on 07/03/2006 7:37:02 AM PDT by veronica
It takes a Canadian publication to point this out. I wonder why.
My wife is apolitical and out of the loop on this sort of thing. When she read the NY Times and saw this (being a displaced NYer, she subscribes), even she had the reaction that this showed remarkably poor judgment.
Of course it occurred to the NYTimes editors that this was a bad idea. Of course they did it anyway. There is no way that this was merely coincidence. It was a deliberate shot across the bow of the Bush Administration.
I think what bugs me the most is that they don't have the cajones to own up to it.
I take great consolation in the drop in their stock price. The market cap of this menacing organization has fallen by $3.8 billion in the past few years, and I have no doubt that it will fall further. If these nutcases weren't doing so much damage to our national security, I would welcome their stupidity. As pure politics, they are a huge net asset for the Republican party, even as they spend down all that capital. This is a war of attrition, and the NY Times is losing. Big time.
I know the Times is unquestionably socialist, but anybody with a rudimentary investigative skills probably could have found Cheney and Rumsfeld's houses. Do we think the Times was encouraging suicide bombers to kill the Clintons because it focused on their Chappaqua house so much in 2001? You would think they would have thrown in one Democrat's house just to make it look fair.
How about just a prison number?
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