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NYTimes Food Column Uses Monkfish to Castigate Cap Gains Tax Cut
MediaResearchCenter ^ | Wednesday July 30, 2003 | BrentBaker

Posted on 07/30/2003 9:40:22 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay

Not even the food articles in the New York Times are a safe haven from liberal potshots. In a New York Times Magazine story this past Sunday, Jonathan Reynolds ostensibly recounted his trip to Norway to learn how to prepare scallops and other fish. But in the midst of his piece, he took a shot at President Bush's capital gains tax cut.

Reynolds described the monkfish as "the poor man's lobster" and asserted: "If you see a whole monkfish at the market, you'll find its massive mouth scarier than a shark's. Apparently it sits on the bottom of the ocean, opens its Godzilla jaws and waits for poor unsuspecting fishies to swim right into it, not unlike the latest recipients of W's capital-gains cuts."

"This is a food column, for crying out loud," exclaimed James Taranto in his "Best of the Web" column on Monday for OpinionJournal.com (http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003808 ). Taranto tried to dissect the analogy: "Aside from the inappropriateness of the political commentary, this is really bad writing. We had to puzzle over it for several minutes before we realized that in Reynolds's metaphor, both the tax cut and those who benefit from it are fish."

Here's the paragraph in full with the monkfish leading to a remark about the capital gains tax cut:

"In the kitchen, Nina sauteed fresh, fat scallops in a little butter, removed them and made a simple but exquisite saffron sauce by adding a little stock, cream and a few pink peppercorns for color. Eystein dipped monkfish chunks into an elemental flour batter for quick sauteeing. I've never subscribed to the marketers' description of monkfish as the 'poor man's lobster' -- it's like the Chicken Liver Council claiming its product is Gonzo's rib-eye for those who can't afford it. I usually find it combative in texture and only mildly toothsome. If you see a whole monkfish at the market, you'll find its massive mouth scarier than a shark's. Apparently it sits on the bottom of the ocean, opens its Godzilla jaws and waits for poor unsuspecting fishies to swim right into it, not unlike the latest recipients of W's capital-gains cuts. So it has in common with lobster only reprehensibility of character."

For the July 27 New York Times Magazine piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/magazine/27FOOD.html

There's no where to hide from the bias in the New York Times.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jonathanreynolds; liberalmedia; mediabias; monkfish; nytimes; taxcut
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O O O O O Hey...just another fish tale!

1 posted on 07/30/2003 9:40:23 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay
Liberals spin fishy tales even where you don't expect to find them.
2 posted on 07/30/2003 9:41:23 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Timesink
Pluck your magic pinger, Timesink...
3 posted on 07/30/2003 9:43:06 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Nasty looking monsters, but they do taste good.
4 posted on 07/30/2003 9:46:00 AM PDT by Huck
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To: fight_truth_decay
Isn't it fitting that the article would be written in fishwrap?
5 posted on 07/30/2003 9:46:57 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: fight_truth_decay
The author may not know this but:

For a good part of it's history there was a significant percentage of the US economy which was managed collectively.

People would all work based upon their abilty, and all would contribute to the collective throughout the year. Then at the end of the year, one member (who was decided in advance ) would distribute the returns of the collective based upon a number of issues including need.

This system remained in place for years and years until one day, Republican politicians decided that the collectives needed to be broken up.

So they used their firm control of the military industrial complex and took their army to the collectives and forcibly dismantled them. What happened to the members of the collectives?... They set them free.

(A little idea I've been playing with for debating libs.)

6 posted on 07/30/2003 9:55:23 AM PDT by tcostell
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To: Pharmboy
Pluck your magic pinger, Timesink...

Hiya kids! Hiya Hiya!

7 posted on 07/30/2003 9:56:24 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: fight_truth_decay
"All the fish that are fit to wrap."
8 posted on 07/30/2003 9:56:55 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed
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To: Huck
"Monkfish eat pretty much anything that comes their way, including soda cans and other trash"..You know, I might have to rethink my taste for monkfish.
9 posted on 07/30/2003 9:58:03 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay
I think I have the same eating habits as monkfish.
10 posted on 07/30/2003 10:00:17 AM PDT by Huck
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To: tcostell
I don't get it.
11 posted on 07/30/2003 10:01:38 AM PDT by Huck
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To: Beelzebubba
Caviar emptor
12 posted on 07/30/2003 10:14:28 AM PDT by talleyman ("Carpe diem": expense account for a fish)
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To: Maceman
Ah yes...good memories. Wasn't that Andy Devine who hosted?
13 posted on 07/30/2003 10:26:30 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Monkfish and lobster have reprehensible characters? Should they repent of their sins?

I knew lobster were called the "cockroach of the sea," but I don't see how eating whatever happens to come along is a character flaw. Sounds like survival to me.

14 posted on 07/30/2003 10:32:59 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: fight_truth_decay
Do monkfish eat annoying NYT liberal food writers? Probably not, they'd get a severe case of agita and flatulence. HEHEHEHEHEHE.
15 posted on 07/30/2003 10:43:41 AM PDT by Seamus Mc Gillicuddy
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To: Huck
The year was 1861, the place, Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor.
16 posted on 07/30/2003 11:10:23 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Free! Read my historical romance novels online at http://Writing.Com/authors/vdavisson)
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To: Huck
Slaves. Anytime people are forced ot work for the benefit of another, they are slaves. (As were those people)

But I get the point, it's too vague. It's still an idea in development.

17 posted on 07/30/2003 11:36:08 AM PDT by tcostell
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion; tcostell
Man am I stupid!
18 posted on 07/30/2003 11:40:46 AM PDT by Huck
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To: Huck
Actually, I think I was too vague. I need the punch line to be a bit more pointed, but I like the idea of getting libs to go nodding in support of the idea, and getting into it, then dropping the facts on them in a way that they can't possibly support.

It's a tricky balance between setting it up and knocking it down. I've been worried about the big suprise, but I guess I should be a little more specific.

Thanks for the feedback.

19 posted on 07/30/2003 12:05:41 PM PDT by tcostell
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To: tcostell
Well, definitely put me on the Homer Simpson end of the spectrum! LOL. But I see what you mean. If you can hook em in just right, you'll really have em.
20 posted on 07/30/2003 12:18:23 PM PDT by Huck
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