Posted on 06/07/2013 2:21:58 AM PDT by lbryce
The New York Times edited its damning editorial condemning the Obama administration for collecting phone call data from Americans to make it less stinging shortly after the editorial was published online Thursday afternoon.
The editorial originally declared that the Obama administration has lost all credibility as a result of the recently revealed news that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been secretly collecting call data from American users of Verizon under the authority of the Patriot Act.
But hours later the stinging sentence had been modified to read the Obama administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. [Emphasis added]
According to NewsDiffs.com, a website which tracks changes to online articles, at 3:34 p.m. ET the editorial damned the Obama administration generally and by 7:09 p.m. ET it had been edited to damn the Obama administration more narrowly over its collection of call data.
NewsDiffs also showed that several other modifications had been made to the editorial, but none as significant as its change to the originally broad condemnation of the Obama administration.
The new version of the article contains no indication that it has been changed.
I can imagine being a fly on the wall after the editorial had time to sink in, and a few hours later, some big shot editorial guy must have called up the board room and let it rip. What the heck were you guys thinking? Sugarcoat the damn editorial, you dumbkopfs!
When was the last time you saw a published editorial get “quietly” re written.
Shades of Orwell .
One logical explanation for what we have been seeing over the last few years is massive program of spying, dirt digging and opposition research being used for intimidation, blackmail and extortion but it was really hard to accept even with this crowd.
The last few weeks revelations make this almost a certainty
The IRS must have called . . .
Fun to watch, Obama’s now burning his bridges with his cheerleading MSM. He observed how AP rolled over and decided it’s time he make the rest of the MSM roll over. But eventually the MSM will say wait a minute Hussein Obama, technically you are a lame duck president ever since you got elected. No 3rd term for you, so we’re dumping you off the boat.
It’s still here on the mobile phone version, as of Fri 5:30am:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html
1st sentence, 3rd paragraph...
May be changed by time you read it.
Ooooops, it’s changed. My error. Sorry. Didn’t save it.
It’s been changed.
This is pure theater; the media did EVERYTHING in its power to get Obama elected twice, and is now clutching to get back the millions of customers it lost sacrificing its credibility to do so. Obama pretends the media is hostile, the media pretends Obama has done wrong, and the consumers lap it up. All of these stories pre-date the 2012 election, and they were deliberately held until the media masters knew their guy was in.
Pure theater.
Damn, they’re fast.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the White Hut made the phone call to that pos owner.....raking him over the coals...
Finally explanations for Saxby Chambliss,Lindsey Graham,John McCain among others,must have had some racey phone calls
That’s a good point, but if the MSM needs to boost its theater audience, they need to step up their game. So far their feigned attempts at outrage don’t look believable. Their acting skills not so good. They need to pretend in their minds that Obama is a Republican, which may upgrade their ability to look angry at their messiah.
The NY Slimes dutifully buries its nose into Hussein’s backside.
I think it also explains Chris Matthews and more than a few on the media sycophant side of the aisle.
Some of their worshipful comments have been so over the top, it’s almost like they cross the line to passive aggressive sarcasm and are a cry for help.
“So far their feigned attempts at outrage dont look believable. Their acting skills not so good.”
The lie is exposed when you watch what they do for other Dem politicians (that still have to face re-election). Here in NJ the media will play non-partisan because Gov. Christie doesn’t have viable challenger (they worked hard against him, but he narrowly won anyway last time); the Senate and House races will expose them, though.
that didn’t last long..
Number 32:23
What Obama fails to realize is that God will not be mocked. Obama is an abhorrent homosexual, and his frequent "golfing" escapades and trips with his boy toy Reggie Love are but one example of his sexual depravity.
I predict that Obama's disgusting homosexual activities will come out, the sooner the better.
The American people will be shocked. You would think more of them would know the truth about Obama, but most of them do not. However, they are beginning to buy a vowel clue.
When the ugly truth does come out, the media will try and defend Bath House Barry, but Moochelle's false image of the Black Lawyer Mother Of Two Who So Bravely Conquered Obsesity must be protected as well. The media won't know how to resolve these two issues, and it will devolve into a raging hell for Barry.
I’ll bet Valerie Jarrett used some pretty strong THREATS to the NYT!!!! She needs an Orange JUMPT SUIT...NOW!
Yup...defacto POTUS Jarrett....probably was purple with rage....
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