Saddam Hussein, Misunderstood (NY Times Alert)

NY Times ^ | April 30, 2006

[goodnesswins]

Wow....they're into Damage Control a little early for November....

[Republican Wildcat]

Have these idiots read the Duelffer Report?

It continues to amaze me just how stupid and dishonest the mainstream press is. The truth is whatever they want it to be - getting the facts to the public doesn't matter.

[P-40]

The New York Times is always on the ball...

Page 343, 9/11 Commission Report

It is hard now to recapture the conventional wisdom before 9/11.For example, a New York Times article in April 1999 sought to debunk claims that Bin Ladin was a terrorist leader, with the headline “U.S. Hard Put to Find Proof Bin Laden Directed Attacks.”

[doug from upland]

The lyrics are good, but I don't know the song.

[TYVets]

It's always so sad when a murderous butchering dictator gets misunderstood.

The NYT is still Stuck On Stupid.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Maybe the NYT's should try google. There are plenty of stories from late 2002 and early 2003 on how Saddam was not giving inspectors complete access. None other than Hans Blix delivered a report to the UN saying so.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

[Dodgers fan]

The NY Slimes must be trying to get another pulitzer for their pathetic panty waist reporters. This one is too much even for the defenders of Stalin.

[loveliberty2]

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, January 16, 1787, to Edward Carrington. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 11, p. 49, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950)."

Although the NY Times represents views which are antithetical to the spirit of liberty and the principles of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the First Amendment is too important to trash in order to silence its pages.

The marketplace could do that in a few months by simply not buying the paper.

Thomas Jefferson often was criticized by the newspapers of his day, but he understood the importance of a free press. He said:

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, January 16, 1787, to Edward Carrington. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 11, p. 49, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).