DUmmie FUnnies 11-21-07 ("NY Times to Readers: Drop Dead")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | November 21, 2007 | Craig Stoltz, HUffies, and PJ-Comix

[Paul Heinzman]

would love to see the whole range of thoughts on NY Times articles. Some damn smart readers,and a lot of crazy ones too I am sure.

By a 10:1 ratio of crazies to smarts, I'd wager.

[Paul Heinzman]

I appreciate some civility on-line.

And I appreciate lace curtains in a pig stye.

[Paul Heinzman]

Even on Huff Post, too many people sink into insults and flames rather than informed discussion.

Insults and flames on Huffington Post? I'm shocked.

[Paul Heinzman]

The NYTimes needs to know it's now the 21st century and not the 19th.

Yeah, the Times can't even get the freakin' date right.

[faq]

...which has never used its power to beat up on a weaker opponent that can't protect itself-full of bullies!

Never ever ever! But we can all agree it is OK to beat up a "stong opponent" by slanting or "framing" an issue, right?

[Charles Henrickson]

four part-time staffers whose job it is to uphold the quality of public discourse.

Let me guess: Jayson Blair, Jason Leopold, William Rivers Pitt, and Mary Mapes.

[Charles Henrickson]

"A pure free-for-all doesn't, in my opinion, equal good. It can equal bad."

Translation: "We want our liberal bias disguised as 'mainstream' news coverage and 'dignified' editorial comment. We don't want the true direction of liberalism exposed for what it is by these rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth, barking moonbats."

[Charles Henrickson]

The problem with the Times is not its political slant but rather the fact that it is dry and boring.

Well, it's dry, it's boring, AND it has a liberal political slant.

The New York Times: All the news that fits our slant.

[COBOL2Java]

...Last night we were playing the slot machines at the casino and some incredibly annoying little old lady kept sticking her face in front of us and peppered us with dopey questions about how we were doing. I had to tell her to STFU in a semi-polite way.

He he. Hope that wasn't the drink lady! "No Coke for YOU!". :0)

[denydenydeny]

One of the great things about the Web is that it allows us to see the Inner Loon in most liberals. Before the web, we got a sanitized version of concerned "progressive" liberals carefully filtered for our public view by the MSM. However, the Web has allowed us to see the liberals for what they are: completely deranged as evidenced by their very own crazed rantings.

Exactly.

his great great uncle Yakov Sverdlov

Stalin's roommate in Siberia for three years, FWIW.

[bcsco]

A Happy Thanksgiving to you, and yours, and everyone this holiday. God’s blessings to all.

Let’s eat TURKEY!!!!

[Paul Heinzman]

And to you too. My prep work is almost done; this meal is gonna be off the hook.

[PJ-Comix]

I'd missed Jason Leopold's comments. He proves himself to be every bit of the professional journalist I thought him to be. The posting as "anonymous," the profanity, the libelous accusations about you. Yep, that's just the kind of professional I had him pegged for.

Leopold's postings are easy to spot. Heavy on the perversion. Just like the original Leopold of Leopold and Loeb.

(Believe it or not, that original Leopold once visited our home in Puerto Rico after his release from prison.)

[bcsco]

We’re headed for the Quad Cities as usual. And tonight’s our anniversary so two good meals back-to-back (and tonight’s on the son’s dime...that makes it even sweeter).

[StC]

First off, I want to say Happy Thanksgiving to all the FReepers on here.

Since the New York Times has insulted the HUffies, I wonder if their subscriptions are going down?

[hsalaw]

It shows a lack of confidence in the very people the Times' advertising group is always bragging about: the national intelligencia, the "thought leaders," the discriminating cosmopolitans and patrons of the high arts.

I almost hurt myself laughing at this one.

[300winmag]

What the liberals, both online and offline, don't realize is that the WAPO and TIMES are published to enlighten about a thousand or so elitists who don't qualify for direct phone or fax contact from the RAT party. The publishers really don't give a damn if the hundreds of thousands of ordinary subscribers are allowed to present input or not.

Both publications, and their subsidiaries and lesser competitors, are, as the stalinists say, "belts of transmission". Their job is to get the party line word out to the lessor minions inside the Beltway. The fact that anybody else might read the stuff is utterly irrelevant, except as a source of income. Until they can tap into the taxpayer's wallet like "public TV" does, they need that nasty old capitalist money to get the word out.

So buy the papers, patronize the (dwindling) advertisers, and shut up. Nobody at those publications cares what the average liberal thinks. They already gave you your thinking points.

[decal]

“...Craig Stoltz to describe in Bolshevik Red (his great, great uncle was Bolshevik Yakov Sverdlov)...”

Too bad it wasn’t Yakov Smirnoff - he’d be funnier and a better person to boot.

[decal]

“...the Gray Lady has installed four part-time staffers whose job it is to uphold the quality of public discourse.”

Problem is, the Gay Laddie who owns the rag doesn’t want to be confused for Skinner.

Oh, and how many of these deadenders have threatened to cancel THEIR subscriptions if they don’t get their way?

[PJ-Comix]

Too bad it wasn’t Yakov Smirnoff - he’d be funnier and a better person to boot.

I actually knew Yakov Smirnoff out in La-La Land. I think of him whenever I see or hear in the car, "Door is ajar." That was what I remember best from his comedy routines. He comes to America and is confused when a voice says, "The door is a jar." That happened to me just yesterday so I thought of Smirnoff.

BTW, what is Smirnoff doing nowadays since he lost his act when the Evil Empire fell?