ALL THE NEWS? (Ritter- PeeWee Herman of the anti-war movement)

PAGE SIX - New York Post | 1/25/03

[kattracks]

READERS of the New York Times, as of yesterday, still hadn't been informed of Scott Ritter's sex-sting arrest. Ritter is the former UN arms inspector who has lately been defending Saddam Hussein to become a darling of the anti-war movement. The news of his arrest nearly two years ago - allegedly for trying to lure a 16-year-old girl he contacted on the Internet for sex - broke a week ago in the Schenectady Gazette. The Post and many other newspapers carried the story after the Associated Press had it on Tuesday. But not a word in the Times. When The Post's Fred Dicker called Ritter the "Pee-wee Herman of the anti-war movement" on the Don Imus radio show yesterday, Imus said Dicker was being "unfair to Pee-wee."

[kattracks]

ping

[elhombrelibre]

Jimmy Swaggart had a similar kinky side. He liked to hire prostitutes who'd watch him play with himself. The press didn't fail to tell us that. NYT is protecting its own.

[weegee]

The 2 missing news stories here are (a) that he has been caught twice in this offense (the other time was hoping to meet a 14 year old) and (b) something caused Scott to change his tune on Iraq.

Possible reasons for changing his position from hawk to dove include blackmail (maybe they provided him with entertainment and have pictures to prove it) or payoff (he received $400,000 to make a pro-Iraq movie).

Meanwhile the press is listening to this man (who denied the charges) when he points the finger at a conspiracy to defame his character. When will we hear an explanation/investigation into the change on his position regarding Iraq?

[Miss Marple]

OK...now I am back to thinking it was the Clintons who had the charge quashed, and the New York Times doesn't want to cover this story, because they will then have to try to find out WHY this happened, which, of course, leads us to you-know-who.

[Roberts]

bttt

[cgbg]

That is why many of us call the New York Times "the gray whore".

Their motto should be "all the news that fits (our socialist ideology)".

I can't stop laughing whenever I hear the media talking heads refer to the New York Times as "the paper of record".

Ed Zehr (a Washington Weekly writer who passed away last year) had a great quote where he said that reading most newspapers reminded him of what the occupied French in World War II must have felt like when they opened their newspapers--there were lots of empty spaces where the news was supposed to be.

[weegee]

When you speak of "Pee Wee's" arrest, are you referring to the one at the adult theater or for the polaroid shots discovered at his home? Jeffrey Jones is supposedly in the pictures with an underage person (male?). Few details are being publicized on that case.

As to "credibility" or ability to speak on other subjects: America knows that Bill Clinton is a successful liar (he lies under oath, he lies on camera, he cries on cue). Given his partisan hyperbole, scandal ridden past, lack of a job, and known tendancy to tell outright lies why does he still get any press that doesn't question every word he utters?

[Katya]

I really miss Ed Zehr too....met him on the CAS list a few years back.