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N.Y. Times Publisher Apologizes for Boomers (Barf Alert)
NEWSMAX ^ | 5-22-06 | NEWSMAX

Posted on 05/22/2006 2:54:35 PM PDT by Chicos_Bail_Bonds

N.Y. Times Publisher Apologizes for Boomers

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told a college graduating class that he was ”sorry” for his generation’s failure to achieve the goals it had set back when he was a college student.

"When I graduated in 1974, my fellow students and I ended the Vietnam War and ousted President Nixon,” he told about 900 graduates of the State University of New York at New Paltz on Sunday.

"Okay, that’s not quite true. Maybe there were larger forces at play.

"Either way, we entered the real world committed to making it a better, safer, cleaner, more equal place. We were determined not to repeat the mistakes of our predecessor. We had seen the horror and futility of war and smelled the stench of government corruption. Our children, we vowed, would never know that. "So, well, I am sorry.”

Sulzberger, who became the Times publisher in 1992, urged the graduates to "know the world” and "stand up for America’s democracy.”

"None of you wants to be standing where I am 30 years from now,” he said, "apologizing to the next generation of bright and shiny college graduates."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arthursulzberger; corruption; nytimes
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

Still an idealistic nitwit after all these years.


21 posted on 05/22/2006 3:12:58 PM PDT by Reactionary (The Barking of the Native Moonbat is the Sound of Moral Nitwittery)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds
If the "boomers" want to apologize it should be for making a f***ing mess of everything. We'll be lucky if their "legacy" doesn't sink us.
22 posted on 05/22/2006 3:16:14 PM PDT by Jaysun (Even with a paddle, shit creek ain't no picnic.)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

Sulzberger is the proverbial flea floating on his back down the river on a leaf, masturbating and yelling: "Open the drawbridge!"


23 posted on 05/22/2006 3:18:28 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

And instead of all this great 'change', they are responsible for the largest increase in entitlements in US history. They will single handedly bankrupt both Medicare and Social Security with their massive numbers and complete lack of attention to these inevitable problems. (Oh, and they managed to get us attacked by Al Qaeda by pretending that we didn't have enemies in the world so they could pretend that Reagan was just crazy).


24 posted on 05/22/2006 3:19:01 PM PDT by bpjam (Opinion Polls Don't Protect Our Borders.....)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

He should be apologizing to the stock holders instead.


25 posted on 05/22/2006 3:19:53 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Argus

Well put!


26 posted on 05/22/2006 3:26:42 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Willy DeVille

IB4TZ??


28 posted on 05/22/2006 3:43:58 PM PDT by wingnut1971 (Oh good...another BS study I get to pay for.)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

He has plenty to apologize for.


29 posted on 05/22/2006 3:46:20 PM PDT by JR.Roofing
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To: Jaysun

He should apologize for the first Boomer President. Talk about corruption in politics!


30 posted on 05/22/2006 4:02:48 PM PDT by bombthrower
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

My generation apologizes that it has Sulzberger as a member.


31 posted on 05/22/2006 4:05:33 PM PDT by mjp
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

[tears welling up in my eyes]


32 posted on 05/22/2006 4:09:51 PM PDT by zaxxon
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To: cardinal4
"What a self centered jerk."

Yes, as if he has the authority to speak for his generation and apologize on its behalf.
33 posted on 05/22/2006 4:20:39 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds
N.Y. Times Publisher Apologizes for Boomers New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told a college graduating class that he was ”sorry” for his generation’s failure to achieve the goals it had set back when he was a college student.

The goals were to end America as a nation or an ideal.

34 posted on 05/22/2006 6:13:41 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
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