Posted on 01/30/2009 6:52:59 AM PST by AIM Freeper
In her new book, Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America — ironically, currently #2 on The New York Times Best Sellers List — Ann Coulter excoriates America’s newspaper of wretched. Here are a few of her disclosures:
* “On October 15, 2008, the Obama campaign’s internal pre-debate talking points were inadvertently released to the media.” On the same day, The New York Times ran a story in its politics blog, “The Caucus,” that bore striking similarities to the Obama memo. For instance, both predicted that McCain would bring up Obama’s ties to ex-terrorist William Ayers. The Times essentially took the Obama memo, changed a few words, and slapped a byline on it.
* In the 2004 campaign, The Times repeatedly referred to charges of the anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans as “unsubstantiated.” But Coulter notes: “By contrast, not once did The Times describe the laughably unsubstantiated charge that Bush went AWOL from his National Guard service as ‘unsubstantiated’ out of 18 mentions of that allegation.”
* When a conservative says something dumb, for The New York Times, it’s proof positive that he’s a moron. But candidate Joe Biden’s repeated gaffes showed he “doesn’t take himself too seriously,” according to the paper.
* In reporting on public reaction to Republican intervention to save Terri Schiavio, a Times story claimed, “Polls indicating broad public opposition to government involvement in the Schiavo case may be giving some politicians second thoughts.” As evidence, it cited an ABC News poll that consistently misstated the facts of the case, and ignored a Zogby poll (that described the case correctly) showing respondents opposed withholding food and water from the disabled woman by 79% to 9%.
* During the 1984 campaign, The Times repeatedly ran stories claiming Mondale was closing the gap on Reagan. In 1996, there were no Times stories on Bob Dole catching up with Bill Clinton, even though Dole lost by a smaller margin than Mondale.
* Coulter comments on The Times’ use of ideological labels: “These are actual New York Times headlines describing two Supreme Court nominees: ‘An Advocate for the Right’ — News story on Bush nominee John Roberts, July 28, 2005. ‘Balanced Jurist at Home in the Middle’ — News story on Clinton nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg, June 27, 1993.”
This only skims the surface. Coulter’s latest book contains reams of evidence on the way The New York Times acts as an adjunct for the left wing of the Democratic P arty.
See my tagline...
Who reads the New York Times. It is people who already believe what they are reading, and just looking for evidence that they are no alone. You can say that about all media. People listen to or read a news outlet to hear what they want to hear. Not to get informed!
Been this way for years ... the New York Slimes is nothing but the 21st century version of ... PRAVDA!!
on it’s masthead NYTimes underneath it should say
“All the news that the Democrat Party Deems Fit to Print”
Your tagline will never happen. We’ll always have to fight them, they’ll always be the front line of useful idiots for the world communist system.
“Republican’s first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.”
I couldn’t agree more. But let me add step 1A, take back the public schools. If we teach our kids to think critically, then the need to hold the MSM will be diminished.
**Who reads the New York Times.**
I won’t even use it to line my Bird cages.
Quite simply, it's unreadable.... It does have a good crossword though.
I am expecting Rush to start a conservative network. If he wants to help America, then he knows it’s a game of the mind. The mind, sadly, can be easily (we are experiencing it now) molded by a media bent on anything they wish.
“People listen to or read a news outlet to hear what they want to hear. Not to get informed!”
I disagree. It’s true in some cases, but in many cases, people turn on the evening news to get “informed”. It’s what my parents did, and I did it for a while. I had no idea how much spin was involved.
My eyes have been opened, but there are lots of otherwise intelligent people who are swayed by the MSM.
Your tagline hits the nail on the head. MSM gave us Obama/Hillary/McCain. A win-win for MSM.
The MSM can pretty much give us what the wish. You can’t have 90%+ dims, that have no problem showing their bias and passing it off as news or facts, and expect any other result. Rush needs to help us fix this.
I happen to know a Conservative who works there (believe it or not) and they are DESPERATELY trying to find another job.
I understand the NYTimes will soon begin printing its US paper in both Spanish and English.
This is a little long, but worth watching. From 1985.Yuri explains the role of the media in ideological subversion. It’s been happening for a long time, and is no accident. The media aren’t bent on anything they wish, they are bent on carrying out their objective.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1
Absolutely right.
See my tagline....
See my tagline...
I agree with you. However to read daily on FR one would think the MSM is on a death watch.
Toto, this is not your parent's news outlet anymore.
As for you closing comment ... there are lots of 'otherwise intelligent people' who are swayed by the MSM!"
I say BULLSHNIT! If they get their information from the MSM they are not intelligent!
” For instance, both predicted that McCain would bring up Obama’s ties to ex-terrorist William Ayers. “
Anyone remember the Obama campaign’s response when it finally WAS brought up? They tied McCain to the Keating Five. That strategy lasted about a day.
You can be intelligent but still be a fool.
I work with several intelligent physicians whom I consider to be fools, as it applies to “buying” liberal ideology.
Militant
“Republican’s first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed”
You want to send the MSM down the tubes? Pull the plug.
Don’t pay a dime for television. No satellite, no cable, no digital, none of it.
Don’t subscribe to Time-Lies-Warner-Turner-CNN magazines.
Don’t subscribe to your daily newspaper.
DEFUND THE LEFT.
Newspapers are already looking for a federal bailout.
Let the old media die. It just served to work in collusion with the DNC on the daily agenda.
“Culture of corruption” was a DNC talking point and the media SAT on the Mark Foley story until October and then CLAIMED that the GOP “knew and did nothing”. It was a talking point designed to turn off the conservative base, paint Mark Foley as a child molester, and win Congress for Pelosi-Reid.
It’s all about swaying the public opinion through a steady diet of propaganda.
Don’t give them a DIME of your money.
Can’t boycott the Times any more than I do now. I don’t even click on links.
And there are professors at Harvard who've fallen for the Nigerian banking scam.
How many gulible Americans willingly voted for congressman with the most liberal record (to the left of Bernie Sanders - Independent Socialist)? They believed him when he ran to the middle in the campaign.
If you don't watch the nightly news, you are uninformed.
If you blindly watch the nightly news, you are misinformed.
Your tagline is flawed:
The MSM has created its own doom.
Except the last two Sunday's, which my local paper reprints, have been Obama love fests.
Oh, yeah? See my tagline! ;-)
Sorry, I forgot to post this: http://boycottnyt.com/take-action
That page has ideas about more ways to take action against the NYT, even if you’re already avoiding the print and online editions. Hope this helps!
Pitchforks and torches outside SeeBS HQ?
it will take a long time and next to impossible to infiltrate the MSM by working from the inside. Perhaps violent overthrow of the studios is needed.
Si,Si.Lotto numbers on the front page!
Major Ditto’s there!
I’ve waited 35 years for a conservative Paper.
What a blessing that would be.
Now I am with you. You are talking about intelligent people, not people with common sense. You mean intelligent in the educated book sense. Academic Dumbshnits! Yeah, those types just handed Bernie Madoff $50 Billion. Intelligent Idiots!
I can’t believe there are 50 some posts here and not one picture of the lovely Ann Coulter. Rules are rules for a reason!
bump
BTT
10-4! The common sense gene is quickly, but surely, evolving out of our society.
Still, it never ceases to amaze me that some otherwise very smart people can be so blind to the things that seem only natural to you and I.
An executive I work with quizzed me on my views about the election, and I TOLD him. His response was along the lines of, “You seem to be a pretty intelligent person.....except for your conservative views.” I explained to him that I actually had quite a liberal bent when I was a younger lad.......but then I grew up.
He didn’t even realize that he’d been insulted!
Militant
Yes I saw that....
Everyone has their own opinion on the Terry Schiavo case, but what truly angered me was when people, informed by the media, expressed the opinion that "they should pull the plug." Those people I wanted to hit.
The “SLIMES” will get bailout Money....
You can start by buying Ann’s book. It’s one of her best efforts.
I won’t even use it to line my Bird cages...
...of course you wouldn’t, because wouldn’t that increase the amount of detritus in the cage rather than control it, which after all is the purpose of newsprint being locked up with our feathered friends?
My father-in-law used to call them ‘educated fools.’ Having spent 28 years in an academic setting, I can only agree.
Oh, yeah? See MY tagline...
When I was an intern at AIM, I compiled a list of exposees done on the NY Times dating back to Walter Duranty’s cover-up of the Gulag:
http://www.aim.org/publications/briefings/2003/nov12.html
Information warfare works. Time to fight fire with fire.
JoMa
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