The New York Times: All the News that Fits the Tint [Dems Mix Pink and Yellow.]

ATR ^ | 2011-02-24 | Billy Gribbin

[92nina]

...Mr. Lipton’s main target was Tim Phillips, President of Americans for Prosperity:

“The visitor, Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity, told a large group of counterprotesters who had gathered Saturday at one edge of what otherwise was a mostly union crowd that the cuts were not only necessary, but they also represented the start of a much-needed nationwide move to slash public-sector union benefits. “We are going to bring fiscal sanity back to this great nation,” he said. What Mr. Phillips did not mention was that his Virginia-based nonprofit group, whose budget surged to $40 million in 2010 from $7 million three years ago, was created and financed in part by the secretive billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch.”

Hey presto! Instant skepticism. While liberal philanthropists such as George Soros get nothing but a benevolent smile, Lipton and his peers see wealthy libertarians as carte blanche to discredit troublesome arguments while playing pretend impartial newsmen. This is about as journalistically honest as implying that Mr. Lipton is a Red because he writes for the same newspaper that hired Walter Duranty (not that we would dream of doing such a thing)...

Read more: http://www.atr.org/new-york-times-all-news-fits-a5891#ixzz1F0UXZ1t4

[92nina]

The Koch brothers should demand royalties from all conspiracy theory fiction work they inspire.

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Delicious and Stumbleupon

[rj45mis]

Mr. Gribbin, in other words the dem corruption doesn’t count so why pursue those stories! Why does anyone subscribe to the slimes anyway.