Tony Snow Says 'NYT' Should 'Take the Heat'

Editor & Publisher ^ | 6/26/06 | Editor & Publisher

[do the dhue]

I'd love to see this NY Times Heart Al Qaeda as a bumper sticker all over America as a unified protest.

T-shirts, Hats, coffee mugs, ball point pens, coasters, Biplanes with NY Times Hearts Al Qaeda banners, the NY TIMES Hearts Al Qaeda Blimp, the NY Times Hearts Al Qaeda children's book, the NY Times Hearts Al Qaeda Pet Rock, tattoos, ear rings, nose rings, belly button rings, and I'll stop right there.

We'll be unified and rich!!

[P-Marlowe]

Way to go Freeper Tony!

He had them on the ropes and he pulled all his punches. In Boxing parlance, that is the equivalent of taking a dive. He should have given them hell. Instead he gave them cover. What the NY Times did 3 times is nothing short of treasonous. Americans will die because of their treason.

The Attorney General needs to convene a grand jury immediately and drag these editors down and ask them who leaked this information. If they refuse to respond, they should be hauled off to Guantanmo and held in solitary confinement until they are ready to give answers. Somebody needs to go down for this crime.

The NY Times IS the enemy.

[Rosemont]

I'd like to see the shirt NY Times Loves Jihad

[garbageseeker]

I think that criminal charges should be levied by the U.S. Department of Justice against the NY Times for publishing classified material and criminal charges against the persons who provided the NY Times with the information.

[do the dhue]

The NY Times IS the enemy.

A Few Good Newspapers

NY Times:
I want the truth.

Government:
You can't handle the truth!


Our Government have neither the time nor the inclination to explain herself to the NY Times who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom she provides, then questions the manner in which she provides it. Our Government would prefer the NY Times just said thank you and went on her way. Otherwise, the Government suggest that the Times pick up a weapon and stand a post.

[lawnguy]

Don't underestimate the power of the campaign the Adminstration is waging here. What they are getting across to the American people is that the Times is an enemy of the people.

I think this story coming on the heels of our brutalized soldiers last week may be the "jump the shark" moment for the Times.

They have been on our radar for a long time, but this story might penetrate deeper into the minds of the masses, and an already teetering empire will hopefully topple on over.

[TigersEye]

The only heat that will stop this BS...

[jiggyboy]

Yep, they gave Tony three or four openings to say something like "...we are gravely concerned about the publishing of this material, and are investigating whether national security laws have been violated..." and he went the other way every time.

[ModelBreaker]

something about this story makes me wonder if this is some kind of misdirection play designed to get the bad guys to act in a way that makes it easier to find them.

The same thought crossed my mind. But then I remembered--it's the NYT. They would never participate in activities that, directly or indirectly, assisted the US in a time of war.

[Sprite518]

One week from now everyone will drop this. Guarantee... The Republicans and the White House do NOT have the backbone to do the right thing.

[jude24]

Americans will die because of their treason.

Oh, please. Your rhetoric is over-the-top, and under the Pentagon Papers case, inaccurate.

[P-Marlowe]

Oh, please. Your rhetoric is over-the-top, and under the Pentagon Papers case, inaccurate

Your right, I said Americans will die because of the NY Times' release of information regarding our terrorist tracking methods. I'm sorry, I'm certain a few have already died. Particularly in regard to the Sat phone release.

Jude if the NY Times had the same attitude in WWII that they do now, the information regarding the D Day invasion would have been in Rommel's hands and the Normady invasion might have been turned back. If the NY Times had the same attitude in WWII then they would have, if given the chance, released information regarding the Japanese Code being broken, the German Code being broken.

The NY Times is clearly on the side of the terrorists in this war. They have no patriotic loyalty to the Unitied States. Their attitude, like that of the leading democrats, is that as long as Bush goes down, they don't care if they take the rest of the country with him. Their hatred of republicans and Bush exceeds their love of this country.

[xzins]

See #30. I agree with you totally.

If this is Tony Snow getting tough with the NYT and giving them hell, then it appears that a snowball does have a chance in hell.

[xzins]

If you think that the release of the Pentagon Papers did not cause deaths, then you are out of touch with my era. That was a linchpin in the propaganda campaign against the US. It played directly into the hands of the N. Viet who had been on the ropes and ready to give up.

If the propaganda front had not been so favorable for them, MANY, MANY US lives would not have been lost.

The liberal media and the communist 5th column lost that war, and that's what they are attempting here.

It falls under the heading for the NYT, "They're bastards, but they're our bastards."

The NYT is ON THE SIDE of the terrorists.

[Miss Marple]

If the DOJ is already investigating and considering whether or not to prosecute, Tony is right to "pull his punches" as you and P-Marlowe seem to think he did. (I disagree, but for the sake of argument I will concede that point.) Statements from the press secretary's podium would be cited by attorneys for the Times as prejudicial to the case. Plus, if they think the administration won't do anything, they won't be trying to hide their notes and such. Much better to catch them by surprise.

[xzins]

Time will tell, but where are the statesmen of the caliber and ability of Winston Churchill.

We could surely use a bold spokesman for a time like this.

[RedStateRocker]

"The heat needs to come from the White house. "

The heat should come from the marketplace, IMHO.

Part of the problem is that every White house we've had has been so overboard in classifying things that none since Lincoln has had much credibility when saying 'this is needed for national security" (and personally, I think it should be very hard to classify anything unless it REALLY needs to be classified, as opposed to things like this and the data mining of phone records and scouring of financial transactions that even the dumbest terrorist still at large must assume is going on).

Like the 'Pentagon Papers' was anything that wasn't the business of every tax payer. It should be damn difficult to keep anything created with taxpayer dollars out of the public domain.

But if the American People, or should we say 'consumers' penalize them *THEN* they'll notice. I've yet to see any entity larger than a small family where ethics overrides the pocketbook.

[The Wizard]

I still think W should suggest that people stop buying the Slimes to make a point...

[wagglebee]

As far as I can tell, their readership is probably at the lowest point ever if you adjust for the NYC metropolitan population and if 20% of their readers voted GOP I would be shocked.

I think Bush should simply inform them that they no longer represent his target audience (people who actually like the United States) and that they are no longer welcome at press briefings.

[RedStateRocker]

"If you think that the release of the Pentagon Papers did not cause deaths, then you are out of touch with my era. That was a linchpin in the propaganda campaign against the US. It played directly into the hands of the N. Viet who had been on the ropes and ready to give up."

Respectfully, I'd REALLY like to see a source for that assertion. I honestly simply don't believe it. Not that I think the Times wouldn't have published it even if it WOULD have had the negative effects you and others claim, but I've never seen any hard proof that N. Vietnam was not going to keep fighting (phony truces to regroup aside) or that the Pentagon Papers were anything other than EXACTLY the kind of things we citizens need to know about WRT our leaders (DEMOCRATS, for the most part) screwing things up.