NYT Edits Out Op-Ed's Final Line: "Who Will Hang George W. Bush"

National Review ^ | 1/16/07 | Steven Spruiell

[pissant]

Michael Moynihan, a friend of mine who works at the Swedish think tank Timbro, sends along this item:

A story you might be interested in: The New York Times published an editorial a week or so ago by Slovenian Marxist Slavoj Zizek ostensibly on the Saddam execution. It was a typically muddled affair, pieced together from earlier Zizek screeds. But it seems that the Times (and the IHT, whose op-ed editor Serge Schmemann told me that he hadn’t seen the original) edited out Zizek’s final sentence, which was published unexpurgated in both Sweden (Aftonbladet) and Spain (El Pais). And what was the offending line? “Which is another reason to ask: Who will hang George Bush?”

You can find the El Pais version reprinted on a number of Spanish-language anti-war web sites. Just search Slavoj Zizek and "¿Quién ahorcará a George W. Bush?"

I like how the New York Times sees nothing wrong with publishing these nutty rants, so long as a generous dose of white-out is applied to anything that might tip off readers to their true nuttiness.

[pissant]

The NY Times needs to be shut down, and the editors tried for treason.

[Coldwater Creek]

Amen and Amen!! The faster the better.

[CT-Freeper]

I see this as the NYT actually trying to use some restraint. I think it's a good thing they decided to edit-out the last sentence. Editorial page editors edit the letters they received frequently, from what I understand.

[aligncare]

President George W. Bush would be hanged...OVER MY DEAD BODY!

[pissant]

And have a lottery to see who gets to pull the gallows lever.

[bray]

The only thing the Left Wing Press is good for is decorating Lampposts.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[pissant]

No, they edited it out to give credibility to the moonbat who wrote it. And I'm guessing that this piece was not a letter to the editor, but an op-ed column, since it appeared elsewhere in the world press. Hiding that last sentence was done for the reasons the author stated, not for brevity or clarity.

[pissant]

The enemy within.

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The left truly believes that GWB is more evil than Castro, Ahmadinajad, Chavez, Saddam, Arafat, Hitler, etc etc.

[aligncare]

Yes. They certainly earned their name "loony" left. They would be funny--if they weren't so dangerous.

[Arrowhead1952]

To think the left wants Democrats' New 'Fairness' Push May Silence Conservative Radio Hosts, Critics Say and have the balls to put that into print.

[pissant]

And the CINOs that go along with the lefts BS are nothing short of appeasers.

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