If Pravda had written this about Stalin, Stalin would have been embarrassed.
The New York Times is LITERALLY worse than Pravda. In fact, from this day forward, they shall be known as the New York Pravda.
Yes, it’s incredible, isn’t it?
Powerline had it as “President Obama is Awesome” and that about sums it up.
Awesome at cooking, reading, playing golf, playing cards, singing, playing basketball (actually they didn’t talk about that, but we know he is awesome at that); awesome at everything except DOING HIS JOB.
You know, the Times still has some good stuff in it. I’ve read a couple of articles posted here lately that have been interesting and well written. I found a great little map thing-y when I wanted to look up the 2010 election results, really it was excellent, I don’t think it could be improved upon.
And then there is nonsense like this article.
If they ever even challenged him AT ALL, if they had looked into his past with 1/2 the zeal they devoted to Bristol Palin I could take this as a nice little feature piece. But this IS the reporting that is done on Obama, it has never gotten beyond “gosh he’s awesome”. It is a complete dereliction of their duty to the American public.
I tend to refer to it as Izvestia only because the Washington Post is already Pravda-on-the-Potomac, which naturally makes the NYT Izvestia-on-the-Hudson.
Either way, it is more than a bit unnerving for some who grew up during the Cold War and enjoyed making fun of Commie propaganda... to now see essentially the same thing being repeated in our own increasingly laughable "news" media. Stalin was a world-class hunter. Bagged big game with one shot. Every time. And I know that's true 'cause I heard it on Radio Moscow's World Service.
Mao Zedong was a gifted musician, with a catalogue of world-class orchestral works to his name. And we all know that Kim Jong-Il bowled dozens of 300 games and routinely shot 65 on the golf course. Which isn't quite accurate of course.
Sometimes he had them shot up against a wall.