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NEW YORK TIMES PHONY WEAPONS STORY -- you might want to call them at (212) 556-1234
10-26-04 | dfu

Posted on 10/26/2004 6:28:45 AM PDT by doug from upland

The NY TIMES has attempted to pull an October surprise with an apparent fabricated story that was even shopped to 60 MINUTES.

A huge cache of very serious weapons, about 380 tons of HMX and RDX, were supposedly lost because U.S. troops did not guard them. It is, of course, more evidence that George Bush is an incompetent commander in chief and must go.

Unfortunately for the Old Gray Lady, now seemingly to be closer to yellow for its yellow journalism, Jim Miklaszewski of NBC reported the truth in April of 2003 --- the weapons were gone before U.S. troops got to the weapons depot.

John Forbes Kerry, a traitor to this nation in the Vietnam era and an unthinkable commander in chief, used the phony info on the campaign stump yesterday.

If you would like to call the NY TIMES ---

Listen to the prompts and get to the news desk (I think one of the buttons was for international news)
(212) 556-1234


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ammogate; mediawingofthednc; msm; newyorktimes; nyslimes; nytimes; nytrogate; weapons
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To: doug from upland

I think we'd better call the RNC and the Bush campaign. Kerry has played politics with our national security, the lives of our troops, it's time for our side to take him to task. Jim


21 posted on 10/26/2004 6:43:55 AM PDT by jimfrommaine
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To: Mr. K

The NY Times is a tool of American faggotry. They crow about it openly and proudly.


22 posted on 10/26/2004 6:44:21 AM PDT by Elvis van Foster
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To: doug from upland

Yes, but Fox was on this story ALL DAY yesterday, and even Brit Hume LED with this story. I agree with another poster; even Fox seems to be supporting Kerry BIG TIME.


23 posted on 10/26/2004 6:45:37 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: All

If you wish to express your outrage to NYTimes for running a fake story, not once but two days in a row, here is a link to a complete list of the email addresses of editors and reporters of the NYTimes. Courtesy of Scrappleface.com(hilarious site).
http://www.scrappleface.com/nytstaff.php
NBC put the blocks to this story last night and CNN also has coverage on it. Lockheart has said that Bush "distorted" NBC's report. The report was from NBCs own reporters who were embedded with the troops who arrived on the scene and did NOT find the stated explosives or any IAEA seals. The Times story is so much horse puckey designed to bring down Bush. CBS was going to run the story one the 31 of October but the Times jumped the gun. Another attempted hatchet job by the MSM.


24 posted on 10/26/2004 6:46:47 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Mr. K
is this the paper whose editorial staff is now 75% gay?

Yes, and 99% Caucasian.

25 posted on 10/26/2004 6:47:02 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: All

Houston....i believe we have a Troll


26 posted on 10/26/2004 6:48:49 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: doug from upland

Done. Talked to a reporter at the news desk and then left a comment on their comment line.


27 posted on 10/26/2004 6:48:55 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: All

Here is the irony -- if John Kerry had his way, Saddam would still have these and all of his weapons.


28 posted on 10/26/2004 6:50:55 AM PDT by doug from upland (Michael Moore = a culinary Pinocchio ---- tell a lie, gain a pound.)
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To: rwfromkansas

Report sounds bogus to me as well, and the poster just signed up on FR today. Any questions?


29 posted on 10/26/2004 6:50:57 AM PDT by sissyjane (Silk pajamas for dress up, and flannel for everyday-perfect Freeper wardrobe!!)
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To: All

qw3rty--registered today.


30 posted on 10/26/2004 6:51:12 AM PDT by silent_jonny (I LOVE President Bush!--wanna fight about it?)
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To: sissyjane

Troll alert. Where's my damn Troll-a-cide!?


31 posted on 10/26/2004 6:52:26 AM PDT by RightthinkinAmerican (Is the Republican attack machine an assault weapon?)
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To: doug from upland
bump
(or should I say
Pinch???)

I left a voice-mail message for William Broad, one of the authors.

32 posted on 10/26/2004 6:53:59 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: hobbes1; Grampa Dave; Miss Marple; JohnHuang2
Two Words. Shareholder Suit.....

Now that the left has opened that Pandoras Box, we should start a little consortium of Conservative activists that pledge to buy one share a Month each of a targeted company, (Viacom, NYTimes, TIMEWarner....etc...) and then allege in court that they departed from standards and practices common to which ever venue is being addressed Usually journalistic standards...), to the possible detriment of shareholders via loss of credibility.

I am fairly certain that two or three textbooks on media ethics would lay out a nice backbone for that sort of thing...And take a hint form the Pro Aborts and sue under the RICO statutes.

You might have a very good case. The stock price peaked after fallout from the Jason Blair incident and hasn't recovered.

Monday, March 1, 2004 "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Times Thursday announced the resignations of its two top editors -- the latest bombshell in a journalistic melodrama since a rising star reporter was forced to resign for plagiarism.

Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd had been particularly criticized for their roles in the scandal surrounding the reporting of 27-year-old Jayson Blair, who quit the paper May 1 (2003)." link

33 posted on 10/26/2004 6:54:16 AM PDT by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: qw3rty
I don't see a problem with the story on that link, in fact, it has more supporting info:

U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex -- most recently on March 8 -- but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad.

Hasn't Kerry insisted the inspectors needed more time? They either were not effective when they were there, or else Iraq REALLY DID have a WMD program and smuggled the evidence out. So either way, the war is further justified by this report.

34 posted on 10/26/2004 6:54:54 AM PDT by NewLand (Pajama Patriot on patrol at Free Republic since the 20th Century!)
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To: doug from upland

I just called three times...each time I was put on hold for an extended time...the fourth time I called I told him we would thier lines up all day if necessary should they choose not to hear "us" out...the response? "That's fine" then I was put on hold.


35 posted on 10/26/2004 6:58:28 AM PDT by God luvs America (Support Our Troops....Don't vote for Kerry!)
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To: doug from upland

240 thousand tons of that 380 has been either captured or destroyed. It was not our "blunder", and Kerry is trying to make political hay out of this.

Kerry is shooting himself in the foot if he continues to insist this is a "blunder" that he can attribute to Bush. The facts that are now surfacing already dispute Kerry's assertions. Those 380 tons of munitions were documented in 1998 and it would be an assumption that that stockpile was still intact before our boots hit the ground in Bagdad in 2003. If this attack strategy is all they got then Kerry is sunk next week.


37 posted on 10/26/2004 6:58:38 AM PDT by American Sovereignty Defender (I'm voting FOR Bush - before voting AGAINST Kerry)
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To: jimfrommaine
Kerry has played politics with our national security, the lives of our troops, it's time for our side to take him to task.

I agree 100%. Kerry crossed way over the line a long time ago. He continues to undermine the war effort which just emboldens the insurgents. Kerry and the anti-war trash are making the reconstruction twice as hard as it should be. The Bush team needs to address this in a forceful way.

38 posted on 10/26/2004 6:59:06 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: American Sovereignty Defender

Is the Baghdad museum looting story all over again. These guys have NO imagination.


39 posted on 10/26/2004 7:00:07 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: qw3rty
"Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare."

So do you think that these thousands of 2x5 inch boxes, with documents referencing chemical warfare, are the missing 38 tons of explosives?

40 posted on 10/26/2004 7:03:14 AM PDT by Enterprise (The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)
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