[governsleastgovernsbest]

Boston Globe/NewsBusters back-to-drawing-board-Bill ping to Today show list.

[mbraynard]

I don't believe that Bill actually said what the article accuses. He may have been joking around; he can't be so stupid as to think that Jews of any stripe constitute a majority of their readership or even double digits, percentage-wise.

[righttackle44]

"Rice should call for an immediate cease-fire while she hammers out agreements on the countries that will supply troops, . . ."

Or as Tony Snow has pointed out, this strategy has really worked wonders in the past.

[johnny7]

Look for more lay-offs... any pro-bono pressmen out there?

[RexBeach]

Do liberal Jewish Americans back Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon?

[YOUGOTIT]

I have come to believe that liberal Jews support the terrorist, since they are supporters of the Democrats who support the terrorist.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I agree! The Boston Globe should immediately cease its fire!!

[DCPatriot]

Is it a coincidence that both papers did the same thing within hours or each other?

BOR "forced" them to take a position, IMO.

And many a hitter has gone deep with two stirkes on them. Just look at you!! ;^)

[jdm]

"Bill propounded the theory that the big-city newspapers have tread lightly in the current Middle East conflict for fear of alienating their liberal Jewish readers."

Sounds like these big-city papers showed some restraint during the first two weeks of conflict, but now the editors have a serious case of ants-in-the-pants and just can't sit still any longer.

In addition, with elections around the corner, John Kerry will be making rounds on the Sunday talk shows proudly proclaiming, "If I was President, none of this would have happened." And the papers have to be on the side of Kerry (which is to side with Hezbollah), supporting him and his ilk, in hopes of capturing control of the House or Senate (which seems like a very long shot, at this point in time, thankfully).

[finnman69]

2 points


1. MSM newspapers and their writers don't give a crap what their readers really think.

2. The only way Hezbollah is going to disarm is at the point of a gun and if their sources for funding and armaments are cut off. A cease fire is a bandaid kick the can solution down the road. Israel is rightly going to do significant damage to Hezbollah as no one else will.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Goin' down, down, down. I'm goin down, down, down...

[cowtowney]

"Many Lebanese ... cannot understand why they are being attacked by Israel's army"

Well... let's start with the fact that YOU attacked Israel and kidnapped two soldiers... How about that?

What you say? that was Hezbollah and not Lebanon? Well, aren't the Hez a part of your government? What? Yes, but you didn't know that they had 12,000 rockets in your country? Shocked are you? ... What? Yes, but you didn't know they had built six years worth of tunnels and concrete bunkers in southern Lebanon?... Shocked again?

Dang. You haven't been paying much attention to your country have you?

Lebanon reminds me of Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca "I am shocked that there is Hezbollah with arms in this country!"

[MEG33]

[facedown]

BG=NYT, same paper, different masthead.

[Lancey Howard]

Conclusion: any concerns the big-city papers might have about offending liberal Jewish readers are trumped by their overriding inclination to bash the Bush administration at every opportunity.

Your conclusion is exactly correct. In the end, the dying, socialist "mainstream" newsrooms will ALWAYS follow the lead of, and do whatever they think is best for, their Democrat party. It is their purpose, their reason for being; it's what they ARE.

You would think O'Reilly has been around long enough to understand this most basic principle.

[marvlus]

So what's the big deal?

[Chuck54]

Bill O'Reilly's down to his last strike.

I like your analogy. LMAO.

[four more in O 4]

Seems to me this isn't our fight. No one asked for our help and our ally seems to have matters in hand.

Let 'em fight it out. Peace through attrition.

Works for me.

[steve-b]