In the 1910 election, The Times slimed Hiram Johnson. His response should be repeated by the Terminator:
In our city we have drunk the dregs of the cup of infamy; we have been betrayed by public officials; we have been disgraced before the world by crimes unspeakable; but with all the criminals who have disgraced us, we have never had anything so degraded, so disreputable, and so vile as Harrison Gray Otis and the Los Angeles Times.
The one blot on the fame of Southern California, and the bar sinister on the escutcheon of Los Angeles, is Harrison Gray Otis, a creature who is vile, infamous, degraded and putrescent. Here he sits in senile dementia, with gangrened heart and rotting brain, grimacing at every reform and chattering in impotent rage against decency and morality, while he is going down to his grave in snarling infamy. [Mowry, The California Progressives California 1951 p. 126]
Doesn't this fit the Times and its current Democratic leadership today? I think so. No one could say it better than the man who gave California the Recall: Hiram Johnson!
I also agree with your support for Arnold -- the Times must not be allowed to claim any credit for anything but infamy from its smears!!
..a creature who is vile, infamous, degraded and putrescent. Here he sits in senile dementia, with gangrened heart and rotting brain, grimacing at every reform and chattering in impotent rage against decency and morality, while he is going down to his grave in snarling infamy.
That description fits quite a few politicos today on the left side of the aisle and in the media, methinks... x42
Except back then Johnson was a Progressive (aka modern day Green Party) and the LA Times was the equivalent of the National Review.