thehumanlynx: tough. Thats the problem isn't it? They (Times, NYT etc. ) all want to protect themselves and place themselves above and in-front of the rest of America. They think they are the moral authority and can operate above the law in spite of us.
It's worse than that. The press HAS no moral authority. They are completely AMORAL.
That includes supressing facts that would've cleared Rove and Libby in the Plamegate witchhunt.
That includes supressing reports of torture, murder, and abuse under the Soviets and Saddam (CNN did this to maintain their Baghdad bureau but has shown NO such professional courtesy to the United States).
That includes supressing news of impending ambush of US troops (and by extension civilians for journalists in communication with Al Qaida) and just reporting the resulting carnage. See Mike Wallace chastise Peter Jennings for even considering "influencing" the outcome and declaring any ties to America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGg_dpGhlf0
And here is the inside skinny on the Australian from Time Magazine who is undercover with the "insurgents" and seems to be communicating with Al Qaeda:
"The Insurgency also includes compelling personal video from Australian journalist Michael Ware, Baghdad bureau chief for Time magazine and one of the reporters with the most in-depth access to insurgent leaders."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/interviews/ware.html
I have been to Al Qaeda camps, Al Qaeda communities; I've seen them training.I am now in possession of their training video, so eerily reminiscent of what we saw coming out of Afghanistan: foot soldiers going through obstacle courses, men in masks learning how to search houses, fire missiles, handle weapons, bombs, assassinations, drive-by shootings. We're now seeing that happening here in Iraq. That is only happening as a result of the U.S. invasion and ongoing prison [problems].
NO you treasonous bastard. That is a result of the media pimping for terrorists by blowing the Abu Ghraib scandal out of proportion in effort to turn the US public against the war and the Bush administration in 2004, an election year.
Saddam was lopping off hands at Abu Ghraib, raping and disembowling the wives of prisoners.
Al Qaeda isn't attacking the kufir simply because of Abu Ghraib. Then again traitors at the Boston Globe ran porn site photos of models posing as Iraq women being raped by actors posing as US military. And these photos DID run in Egyptian and other papers as evidence FROM Abu Ghraib. And with fat head fat ass murderers like Ted Kennedy saying that Abu Ghraib had simply re-opened under new management the jihadists were told by the Left in America to believe the worst of the reports.
Maybe your relative is making comedic death threats against the President.
It happens from Democrats behind closed doors. You can hear some really vile things (even if there is no direct threat there). Only takes one lone nut.