The Gray Lady should hang her head in shame.
Nope. Willing participant...
The Gray Lady should hang her head in shame.
Think a flood of letters to the ombudsmen would shame them?
I'm sure the NYT is as capable of feeling deep, shameful remorse as long as, say, Bill Clinton: for about 2 1/2 seconds
If anything, the initiative for this piece of lying propaganda probably came from the New York Times.
These people all hang around the same cocktail circuit in New York. It's likely enough that Pinch Sulzberger gave instructions that he wanted a major Bush scandal right before the election, and all his editors and reporters were busy drumming up business.
Probably one of them was talking to Mohammed ElBaradei and asked him if he had any hot stuff against Bush.
The only reason there wasn't more of a Rathergate type reaction was that the whole thing was so feeble it never went anywhere. It started to fall apart within hours.
This is but the tip of the iceberg.
My opinion. Yes, the NY Times was manipulated. Willingly.
Just as they let Joe Wilson use their pages for his own (and their) ends. In fact, El Baradei is probably complicit in that scheme too, having to do with yellowcake as it is and those forged documents.
Just as they front-paged (as they did with Wilson--the minute President Bush was out of the country) the "secret-tapes" ploy.
I just found out they have hired none other than Richard Clarke to write a regular column (to appear every 3 weeks, says he) in their Sunday magazine, too.
They should be treated with contempt for the trash they are.
It is a good reminder of uphill battle against the MSM in the ,04 race.