Posted on 09/10/2009 3:49:52 AM PDT by Schnucki
New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson has admitted that the paper was just a tad slow in covering the scandal of Van Jones, the Left-wing extremist and 9/11 “truther” who had to resign as Barack Obama’s “Green Czar” after his revolting past was exposed.
Here’s Abramson’s risible explanation for the fact that her colleagues didn’t get round to covering the scandal until after Jones resigned:
The Times was, in fact, a beat behind on this story. Why? One reason was that our Washington bureau was somewhat short-staffed during the height of the pre-Labor Day vacation period. This is not an excuse. Another is that despite being a so-called “czar,” Mr. Jones was not a high-ranking official. Nevertheless, we should have been paying closer attention.Oh, what bollocks. Of course the New York Times was paying close attention to the story. It just chose not to write about it, because Jones was a black appointee of President Obama.
If, on the other hand, it had stumbled across a rumour that a junior member of the Bush administration had ignored a “Don’t Walk” sign when crossing the road, it would immediately have put a team of crack reporters and a zillion fact-checkers on the story. Isn’t that right, Jill?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
A beat behind? They aren’t even in the same parade.
There is often better reporting in the UK papers on our gov’t than our papers provide.
They knew what they were doing...Crocodile tears.
And NY Times reporters get UK soldiers killed.
Pinch is branching out.
yeah they were a beat behind like I was a beat behind running the 100 against Usain Bolt.
NY slimes is a joke. I hope they go BK11.
i can’t stand it when someone comes up with a lame excuse, then adds, “that’s not an excuse.”
Van Jones became a revolutionary communist following the 1992 L.A./Rodney King Riots (58 dead)
various sources
Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:19:07 AM by ETL
"Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, 'I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, "This is what I need to be a part of." I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.'..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333342/posts
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.
Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
I’m a lot less concerned about the truther thing than I am the issues that make he and his kind dangerous.
Well, make it up Slimes.
Do some real Journalism for a change.
Investigate Charlie Rangle’s corruption, Murtha’s, Pelosi’s, Reid’s, Obama’s, ...
Investigate the other “Czars.”
Investigate the transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria. I’ll give you a start - General SADA
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/iraqs-wmd-secreted-in-syria-sada-says/26514/
Investigate Soros and most of all, investigate what happened September, 2008, when the world’s money funds were attacked with sudden, coordinated withdrawals amounting to close to a TRILLION dollars.
Who orchestrated these withdrawals? Where did the money go?
Investigate, Slimes. Then maybe you can be let back in to the Journalism profession again.
Van who?
What’s ironic is how the left wing media’s refusal to investigate any negative aspects about the Obama admin will open the door for Fox to become the premiere news outlet. They are really laying the groundwork for Fox’s credibility and Fox has virtually no competition.
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