Bubble Boy? NYT's Rosenthal 'Can't Tell' Maureen Dowd's Politics

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Rib ticklers from the NY Times. Ping to Today show list.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“What can you say about a paper and its editor that is so unwilling or incapable of acknowledging reality on so many fronts?”

You can say that they are leftwing morons, insulated from reality by the notion that their self guilt can only be matched by their ego.

[ninonitti]

What can you say about a paper and its editor that is so unwilling or incapable of acknowledging reality on so many fronts?

"Honey hand me that paper over there I have to clean some bluefish"

[muir_redwoods]

He's right. It's hard to tell if Modo is simply a Trotskyite-Leninist, A Maoist with fascist admixture, a run-of-the-mill Communist, a Reformed Fabian Socialist, an Anarcho-Trotskyite or just a plain old Hilary-flavored Socialist Control freak.

Yup, she's really hard to pigeon hole

[KarlInOhio]

I would defy anyone to label Maureen Dowd by party affiliation or ideology. I've known her and worked closely with her for 20 years and I can't tell you the answer to either one -- Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of The New York Times

I can't tell either. She could be a Marxist or she could be a Leninist - I really cannot tell which.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

LOL

[KarlInOhio]

GMTA. You beat my by 28 seconds.

[Clara Lou]

What’s the saying? “Better to let people wonder if you’re a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”? Those NYT people live in a world of their own.

[Da Coyote]

He’s gotta be a Columbia grad. Betcha that school’s got lead paint on the walls. Yeah...that’s it.

[DCPatriot]

Great piece, GLGB!

Thanks for being there...and catching all this nonsense for us.

[maggief]

Ha!

:)

[maine-iac7]

We are passionate opponents of all forms of authoritarian behavior Republican ideals that follow our by the federal Federalist form of government

Couldn't help it. Although retired, I keep my editor's red pen by my side.

This guy isn't delusional, he's hard line

[sig226]

This part of the piece is equally laughable:

When we're talking about political endorsements, we do it a bit more formally. On the state and city level, the editorial writers who handle those topics generally talk about each of the candidates and recommend which one to endorse. That choice can be noncontroversial, or it can generate a robust debate. It's particularly hard to choose when we're forced to pick, as we and American voters are all too often, between two candidates that we don't really like all that much.

Here I thought they just endorsed the democrat without regard to any scandals, failed policies, or felonious conduct by the candidate, but no . . . .

They debate the candidate's scandals, failed policies, and felonious conduct over brunch, then they endorse the democrat.

They're very thorough.

[SampleMan]

I would defy anyone to label Maureen Dowd by party affiliation or ideology.

Communist, but she pragmatically votes Democrat.

[uncbob]

The news report produced by the news staff of The Times is the heart and soul of this newspaper. Its mission is to bring our readers the best reported, best written, most carefully edited and most attractively produced report on paper and on the Internet, founded on the principle that the role of the newsroom is to provide a dispassionate accounting of events, free of political or ideological coloration.

Sad thing is they actually believe they believe up to this

[sig226]

Dowd is very easy to pigeonhole. She’s a Stalinist. Privileges belong to the elite (her.) She needs them in order to lord it over the proletariat (us.)

[elpadre]

“founded on the principle that the role of the newsroom is to provide a dispassionate accounting of events, free of political or ideological coloration.”

Boy, have they completely failed to maintain their own goals

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks, DC. It was fun to write.

I’d like to point out that after I posted my item, I found that Clay Waters, at NewsBusters’s sister organization “Times Watch,” had earlier written a similar piece.

I’d encourage FReepers to read Clay’s column here:

http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2007/20070926131627.aspx

[elpadre]

I don’t read her anymore.

Her columns are not entertaining, regularly contain abject falsehoods, often meanspirited and support a far left-wing agenda - sometimes poor grammar too!! (and for me to notice that is a miracle - I was a math major)