Disaster Stirs Already Unsettled Feelings Across the Country

New York Times ^ | February 1, 2003 | TODD S. PURDUM

[Dog Gone]

In a twist of nomenclature that would seem implausible in fiction, a craft carrying Col. Ilan Ramon of the Israeli Air Force apparently broke up over an East Texas town called Palestine.

The New York Times has descended to new levels of tackiness.

[TheConservator]

Typical Times trash.

[Reagan Man]

The US has faced adverse events and conditions throughout its history. Columbia was an unexpected occurance and a national tragedy. But the fact remains, the space program will move forward and America will fully recover from the events of this horrible day.

[Clara Lou]

What a pointless, useless article! I can't believe people pay money for the NYT.

[teletech]

More liberal BIRD CAGE LINER from the NYT! Typical.

[RLJVet]

The New York Times has descended to new levels of tackiness.

Had to stop reading the Times for obvious reasons a few years ago after growing up with it. It was like slowly losing a friend. Anyway, if the National Enquirer, for instance, had written this tripe, it would be laughed at. Instead, the Times' readership loyally sinks alongside it.

[Bernard]

"...Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives, meeting at a Pennsylvania resort to plan strategy for confronting President Bush on taxes, Medicare and the rest of his domestic agenda, instead began to pray..."

To which god would democrats pray to?

[Dog Gone]

The article makes Nancy Pelosi seem like a saint, so the article was worth writing, see?

[LibKill]

The New York Times has descended to new levels of tackiness.

Yes indeed.

"We've grown used to the idea of space, and perhaps we forget that we've only just begun," Ronald Reagan told the nation on Jan. 28, 1986, when the Challenger exploded on takeoff. "I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted. It belongs to the brave."

The Reagan quote is the only good part, he was right then and now.

[demnomo]

This piece of hurried tripe will no doubt be on the NYT's front page. (As for the news of the Muslim world dancing in the streets with ghoulish glee--there will be little or no mention...)

[ladyinred]

What? No quote from the Clinton's yet in the Times?

[Loyalist]

Like the Challenger, whose crew was a multiracial, multiethnic American mosaic, the Columbia had a diverse crew, including the first Israeli astronaut. One member was from Iowa and another was born in India.

This being the Times, I'm surprised the headline wasn't SPACE SHUTTLE EXPLODES: WOMEN, MINORITIES HARDEST HIT.

[RightWhale]

President Bush will surely need to summon all the courage he can muster — and more important, summon the nation's — in the days and weeks ahead.

If there is anyone who can do that, it seems President Bush is that one.

[lady lawyer]

This b*st*rd can't wait for the recriminations to start. He's no better than the people on DU -- just a little smoother.

[junta]

This crap written by the NYT is more like a paen to the new cult of "diversity" than anything written to inform anybody but the dullest minds.

[FreedomPoster]

Don't forget the chil'drun.

[Eternal_Bear]

Columbia is also a synonym for America itself. The omens aren't good. I think a storm is approaching. Notice how the Chicoms have been so quiet and discreet, yet they are gathering strength for a great war.

[wretchard]

The Columbia disaster will have exactly the opposite effect that the New York Times predicts, although they couldn't guess it. It will remind us our how dangerous complacency can be; how death can come from a clear blue sky; how peril can come upon you suddenly in a shopping mall or a sunlit meadow.

[TomServo]

Ya know if I didn't think the ink was poisonous, I could use the nyt for toilet paper.

[TLBSHOW]

A nation of liberal talking heads and editors spewing forth garbage. That we have to read and the anti-Americans eat it up as seen by their thoughts at their web sites.

Instead of calling these souls people that are risk takers and The American people on a whole the same as the risk takers a people always shooting for better and best in all we do.

Not cowards like this liberal piece of trash paper like all liberal trash across this country. This story we will throw right back in their faces. Prove they are anti-Americans and kooks.