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NY Times Rushing to Say Pirates Show America's 'Power Limits'
Newsbusters ^ | April 10, 2009 - 05:25 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 04/10/2009 4:21:39 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out

In what almost seems a gleeful pronouncement, The New York Times trumpeted America's powerlessness over the recent capture by pirates of a captain of a U.S. run freighter on the high seas. With an April 9 headline that blares, "Standoff With Pirates Shows U.S. Power Has Limits,"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: maritime; slimes; somalipirates; treason; usnavy
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Warner Todd Huston's pieces always seem to be full of phrases like this. "In what almost seems a", "It's quite hard not to feel that", "the Times almost seems to".

Talk about Frog in Pot syndrome. The NYT is run by anti-Americans. They're allowed that under the 1st Amendment, but that's what they are. For sure, it gets into treason territory sometimes and that should be investigated.

1 posted on 04/10/2009 4:21:39 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Kind of reminds me of another President who was helpless in a hostage situation. That President was helpless because the hostage takers knew he was a pussy.


2 posted on 04/10/2009 4:25:23 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon (I don't trust Obama with my country. Do you?)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

NYT = IHT


3 posted on 04/10/2009 4:27:09 AM PDT by allmost
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

We are only powerless as we want to be.


4 posted on 04/10/2009 4:27:18 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Why is Obama being so quiet about this? Possibly because he fears that if a Black President who values his socialist ties to his father’s homeland flexes his muscle against him, Africa will turn on Obama and paint him as a bad bad black muslim man!


5 posted on 04/10/2009 4:27:33 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
freedom of the press does not mean freedom from the truth

There is a difference and we should consider that.


6 posted on 04/10/2009 4:27:58 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Jeff Gordon

NYT forgets that Obama is their man and not to run articles critical of US power since Obama is the face of that power. This may push Obam into doing something and NYT does not want that. So thety should be mindful and not to act like it is Bush that is President. They fell back into old habits here.


7 posted on 04/10/2009 4:28:23 AM PDT by fernwood (those who sacrifice freedom for safety, get neither)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Thanks for posting this excellent article and the link to the insurance industry. Meanwhile US taxpayers are being asked to bail out the insurance industry.


8 posted on 04/10/2009 4:30:11 AM PDT by finnsheep
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Well...we wouldn’t want Europe to think that we’re “dumb” again would we?/s


9 posted on 04/10/2009 4:30:47 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
NY Times Rushing to Say Pirates Show America's 'Power Limits'

They're right...
It's called FUBO.

10 posted on 04/10/2009 4:35:23 AM PDT by evad (YES!! I WANT FUBO's Agenda TO FAIL!!!)
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You got that right. We need to tell the Somali pirates:

Cease and desist your piracy immediately or we will systematically start destroying all your coastal lairs starting with Mogadishu. You have twelve hours to evacuate women and children.

11 posted on 04/10/2009 4:38:23 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: Jeff Gordon

I smell peanuts.


12 posted on 04/10/2009 4:38:52 AM PDT by MNnice
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

On a calm seas night, wouldn’t a few Navy Seal snippers, under the cover of darkness, taking out a few Pirates do the trick? What the hell are they waiting for.


13 posted on 04/10/2009 4:39:45 AM PDT by never4get (We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Wondering if the pirates are in touch with CNN or the NYSlimes for advice on how to escape.


14 posted on 04/10/2009 4:41:29 AM PDT by Carley (President Obama Dropped a MOAB on America)
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To: MagnoliaB

If only our “leaders” had the stones to do something like that..


15 posted on 04/10/2009 4:44:57 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Jeff Gordon
That President was helpless because the hostage takers knew he was a pussy.

A pussy & a fool who went to war with 8 helicopters.

16 posted on 04/10/2009 4:52:15 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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America is always going to have limits because we have such pussy politicians that want be politically correct about everything. get out there and do the job the way we used to. will there be collateral damage? absolutly. but soon they will learn that we mean business and will not taunt us anymore. can you imagine told the king of england you better not send troops or we are going to write a letter of protest....


17 posted on 04/10/2009 4:53:56 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: tatsinfla

Collateral damage needs to be a feature of any real deterrent effort. When the neighbors pay a price, they won’t let this pirates operate freely. As it is now, the neighbors profit from the money the pirates bring in.


18 posted on 04/10/2009 4:58:38 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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To: Puppage

“went to war with 8 helicopters”

it’s almost unbelieveable isn’t it. But why did the military command even allow that? Then the hijacking of Flight 282 followed, entertainingly portrayed in the movie Delta Force


19 posted on 04/10/2009 5:01:23 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

The NYTs headline should read “Pirate Standoff Shows Obama Weakness”. That would be honest, though. The “hostage negotiations” should go something like this:

“Hi, this is the USS Bainbridge. You have ten minutes to hand over the Captain, in which case you’ll survive. Otherwise we’ll take military action to end the situation, and you’ll all die.”

While this approach might lose a “hero captain” or two (or not), piracy would quickly come to an end off the Horn of Africa. It also occurs to me that outfitting a privateer might be fun... ;-)


20 posted on 04/10/2009 5:01:54 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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