Posted on 07/28/2010 9:03:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Among the many great parodies that Rush Limbaugh airs, a personal favorite is the "ad" for the New York Times [subscription required] in which Rush, serving as spokesman, says "if you want your sleeper cell to sleep safely, read the New York Times." Rush goes on to catalog the various types of information vital to keeping terrorists safe that the Gray Lady thoughtfully provides in its pages.
Now comes confirmation that the parody is telling a fundamental truth. On MSNBC this morning, NBC's chief Pentagon correspondent, Jim Miklaszewski stated that foreigners who might otherwise be inclined to provide information valuable to the United States in prosecuting the war on terror refuse to do so because "whatever we tell you is going to wind up on the front page of the New York Times."
View video here.
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Life imitates Rush parody ping to Today show list.
I said the same thing 25 years ago about Eastern Europeans who might be inclined to cooperate with the U.S. against the Soviet Empire. We should have shot a few journalists and bureaucratic leakers then and we wouldn’t be in this mess now.
The biggest threat seems to be from congressional staffers, followed only by CIA malcontents fighting some kind of sick bureaucratic guerilla war.
I think that conservative groups and countries such as Israel should launch a dis-information campaign against the NYT and similar outlets. The Leftist press is very susceptible to dis-information if they believe that the information will harm conservatives. The dis-information has to be done carefully so that the Leftist press outlet can be subsequently clearly seen as being duped.
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