Proof: Times Has Become Liberal House Organ (Rush alert!)

Wednesday's New York Daily News ran a story that Howard Kurtz and others echoed on Thursday. The topic is the New York Times' bias, which I discussed with Howard in the interview that you can see in video right here at RushLimbaugh.com. I also rolled audio of the clip where I exposed the truth about the Times below.

The Associated Press reports: "The New York Times said Wednesday that two sports columns about Augusta National Golf Club's men-only membership policy were killed because they failed to meet newsroom standards, not because they disagreed with the stance taken by the newspaper's editorial page." The Times has written 40 stories on this so-called controversy at Augusta, by the way. Gerald Boyd, the managing editor, has even compared this non-story to Afghanistan.

Columns by sports writers Harvey Araton and Dave Anderson were shelved because they failed to publish the party line. You see, one of them took issue with an editorial page opinion about Tiger Woods choosing not to boycott Augusta. Araton simply asked how admitting a woman would do anything for women's causes. For daring to raise a question, his column and Anderson's were killed. The Times doesn't want any disagreement with the editorial page, which is exactly what I've been saying for months: the paper is opinion, not news.

This paper has become a coordinated leftist house organ – just as newspapers run by Horace Greeley and others were for their parties in the 19th Century. From the way it's opposing the war in Iraq, the war on terrorism and now this Augusta National stuff, you can see how the Times carries the liberal line. As I told Kurtz, "I see editorial pages advising Democrat leaders like Nancy Pelosi and others on how to behave. I think that does get transferred to reporters on what's assigned." Sure enough, now we have proof with these squashed Augusta stories.

To those of you who complained yesterday about me totin’ Rush’s mail, the vote was nine who wanted me to keep posting and three who didn’t. I’m sure there were more negatives so if they want to tell me to stop today . . . I will.

I emailed Free Republic’s webmaster and RushLimbaugh.com to see if they had any complaints. If either of them do, I will stop as well.

I’m disabled. The most debilitating aspect of disability is the impotent feeling one gets about contributing to society. Free Republic has given me the opportunity to try and promote the conservative cause in my own hapless way . . . instead of lying around like a braindead vegetable.

I’ll try to remember to add (Rush alert!) to every title I post from his website so those of you who object can just skip on past it.

I don’t mean to offend anyone. If I am, let me know and I’ll gladly stop.

First, could you point me to some documentation on what Rush said? I was speaking in generalities, and would like to see specifically what he said.

Second, you got me curious and I did a quick search. Apparently, there are things that Kerry did that I consider to go to the man's character and integrity.

"Kerry became even more of a press celebrity during a highly publicized "anti-war" protest when he threw medals the press reported were his over a barricade and onto the steps of the Capitol. Kerry never mentioned that the medals he so gloriously tossed were not his own. The 1988 issue of Current Biography Yearbook explained: " . . . the ones he had discarded were not his own but had belonged to another veteran who asked him to make the gesture for him. When a 'Washington Post' reporter asked Kerry about the incident, he said: 'They're my medals. I'll do what I want with them. And there shouldn't be any expectations about them.'" Kerry's medals have reappeared, today hanging in his Senate office, now that it is "politically correct" for a U.S. Senator to be portrayed as a Vietnam War hero. Alas, so much for integrity."

Here's an interesting story:

"Recently, Kerry became extremely defensive when David Warsh, an economics columnist for The Boston Globe, questioned the circumstances for which Kerry was awarded the Silver Star. Kerry, who was in a close re-election battle with Gov. William F. Weld, a Republican, quickly gathered his former crew from his Swift boat days to rebuff the "assault on his integrity."

According to the official citation accompanying the Silver Star for Kerry's actions on the waters of the Mekong Delta on February 28, 1969: "Kerry's craft received a B-40 rocket close aboard. Once again Lieutenant (j.g.) Kerry ordered his units to charge the enemy positions. . . Patrol Craft Fast 94 then beached in the center of the enemy positions and an enemy soldier sprang up from his position not ten feet from Patrol Craft 94 and fled. Without hesitation Lieutenant (j.g.) Kerry leaped ashore, pursued the man behind a hootch and killed him, capturing a B-40 rocket launcher with a round in the chamber." In an article printed in the October 21st and 28th 1996 edition of The New Yorker, Kerry was asked about the man he had killed.

"It was either going to be him or it was going to be us. It was that simple. I don't know why it wasn't us--I mean, to this day. He had a rocket pointed right at our boat. He stood up out of the hole, and none of us saw him until he was standing in front of us, aiming a rocket right at us, and, for whatever reason, he didn't pull the trigger--he turned and ran. He was shocked to see our boat right in front of him. If he'd pulled the trigger, we'd all be dead . . . I just won't talk about all of it. I don't and I can't. The things that probably really turn me I've never told anybody. Nobody would understand," Kerry said. In the column, Warsh quoted the Swift boat's former gunner, Tom Belodeau, as saying the Viet Cong soldier who Kerry chased "behind a hootch" and "finished off" actually had already been wounded by the gunner.

Warsh wrote that such a "coup de grace" would have been considered a war crime. Belodeau stood beside Kerry and said he'd been misquoted. He conceded that he had fired at and wounded the Viet Cong, but denied Kerry had simply executed the wounded Viet Cong. Dan Carr, a former Marine from Massachusetts, who served 14 months as a rifleman sloshing around in the humid jungles of I Corps, South Vietnam, questioned whether or not Kerry deserved a Silver Star for chasing and killing a lone, wounded, retreating Viet Cong. "Kerry is certainly showing some sensitivity there. Most people I knew in Vietnam were just trying to pull their time there and get the hell out. There were some, though, who actually used Vietnam to get their tickets punched. You know, to build their resumes for future endeavors," Carr said."

I don't mean to pick on Kerry. And I'm not trying to defend Rush. It's just that it appears that maybe his service is fair game.

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