More Fraud at the New York Times.

The New York Times and the White House website ^ | 5-14-03

[TomB]

As if the Times doesn't have enough trouble right about now, their resident grouchy spinster, Maureen Dowd, has pulled a "jayson". For all of you who don't know what that is, it is the newspeak for willfully making up facts to fit a news story. Apparently the elderly Ms. Dowd is not happy with all the attention the higher-ups at the Times have been lavishing on their former employee, and current disgrace, Jayson Blair.

So, in a last-ditch attempt to get her name back in the limelight, Mo has done some of her own quote-doctoring. Here is a few lines from her latest screed:

Busy chasing off Saddam, the president and vice president had told us that Al Qaeda was spent. "Al Qaeda is on the run," President Bush said last week. "That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated. . . . They're not a problem anymore."

Well, that sounds like a pretty stupid thing for the President to say. So, looking it up on the White House website, we find the actual quote

"Al Qaeda is on the run. That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly, but surely being decimated. Right now, about half of all the top al Qaeda operatives are either jailed or dead. In either case, they're not a problem anymore. (Applause.) And we'll stay on the hunt. To make sure America is a secure country, the al Qaeda terrorists have got to understand it doesn't matter how long it's going to take, they will be brought to justice. (Applause.)"

Well, quite a difference, no?

I wonder if anything will come of this? I'm not holding my breath.

[TomB]

Thanks to FReeper Steve_Seattle for initially questioning the quote.

[martin_fierro]

Good catch.

[theDentist]

All the news that's fit to print (according to the latest PC BS accdg to EdOps at NYT)!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

That was one of the most memorable quotes of the speech, in my opinion. Why would she use that one, when it is easy to catch her spin?

[TomB]

ping

[fightinJAG]

Anyone forward this to the NYT jayson complaint line?

[Sonny M]

Not that it matters, I've waited along time to say these words.

"The NY Times, no one reads that anymore."

[discostu]

the Times should just switch to the verticle format and admit they're a tabloid.

[hapy]

I read the New York Post and for years those who read the New York Times have made fun of me. Looks like the liberals screwed up again!

liberals.... The educated ones....

[Hipixs]

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[sarasota]

One of the cablenews talking heads made the same Maureen comment last night. Must have read her article.

[Blue Scourge]

lol, NY Times is just being shot to pieces lately....I love to see it.

[CJ Wolf]

Today, I had the pleasure of telling a NYTimes cold calling sales man that I would not subcribe because the times lacked any credibility and were anti-american to boot.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks!

Maureen Dowd is a filthy lying wh$re whose lies, half truths and propspins like this example, are sop for her.

She is less truthful than Baghdad Bob with none of the charm that Baghdad Bob had.

[Graewoulf]

Ping.

[Grampa Dave]

All Dowd, the main Wh$re of the $limes does with her lying fantasies is propaganda spinning.

[Free ThinkerNY]

The NY Times is a fraud. It is the head of the Leftist media propaganda machine. They don't practice objective journalism. They present Leftist propaganda, disguised as news.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[LittleJoe]

Here's an interesting poll at CNN.com, following their NY Times story. I voted for jail time.

How should unethical journalists be punished?
By firing   95% 77796 votes
Jail time   5% 3681 votes
No punishment   0% 0 votes
Total: 81477 votes

[Timesink]

I wonder if anything will come of this? I'm not holding my breath.

Sadly, nothing will. It's selective quoting, but she did quote him accurately and denote just where she skipped over some words.

Combine that with the fact she's a columnist and not a "reporter," she's completely immune to this.