Pinch–Your name is Quisling

Canada Free Press ^ | July 2, 2006 | John Burtis

[veronica]

New York Times, Pinch Sulzberger, Rumsfield

With the publication of the location, security details, and the local topography surrounding Mr. Rumsfeld’s home in Maryland in its June 30th Escape section on second homes, as well as similar information on that of Mr. Cheney, in the thinly held guise of public interest, a vaporous veil if there ever was one, the New York Times has seemingly retaliated for being called to task for its incessant hobbling of the war on terror through its repeated release of classified programs over the objections of the Bush administration.

This information, which includes color photos of Mr. Rumsfeld’s house, driveway, and roadside birdhouse, could serve no other purpose than to alert both the wandering traveler in need of immediate succor and a quick photo opportunity with the Secretary of Defense or, of course, your wandering terrorist, who might also need to get his bearings as he or she — to keep the Times happy in the unisex end of things — cruised the bucolic countryside in search of high level prey.

Battles of note have interesting names.

We have Monmouth, Thermopylae, Leipzig, Yorktown, Stalingrad, Midway, Waterloo, Tannenberg, The Little Big Horn, Ypres, New Orleans, Chapultepec, 73 Easting, and so on.

Today it’s time to add 43rd Street to that list and the name of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. to the sorry list of willing collaborators like Tokyo Rose, Lord Haw-Haw, and Hanoi Jane.

[jwalburg]

It takes a Canadian publication to point this out. I wonder why.

[george76]

[drellberg]

My wife is apolitical and out of the loop on this sort of thing. When she read the NY Times and saw this (being a displaced NYer, she subscribes), even she had the reaction that this showed remarkably poor judgment.

Of course it occurred to the NYTimes editors that this was a bad idea. Of course they did it anyway. There is no way that this was merely coincidence. It was a deliberate shot across the bow of the Bush Administration.

I think what bugs me the most is that they don't have the cajones to own up to it.

I take great consolation in the drop in their stock price. The market cap of this menacing organization has fallen by $3.8 billion in the past few years, and I have no doubt that it will fall further. If these nutcases weren't doing so much damage to our national security, I would welcome their stupidity. As pure politics, they are a huge net asset for the Republican party, even as they spend down all that capital. This is a war of attrition, and the NY Times is losing. Big time.

[lesser_satan]

How about "Goebbels" Sulzberger, since he's kind of our unofficial minister of lies and propaganda?

[Democratshavenobrains]

I know the Times is unquestionably socialist, but anybody with a rudimentary investigative skills probably could have found Cheney and Rumsfeld's houses. Do we think the Times was encouraging suicide bombers to kill the Clintons because it focused on their Chappaqua house so much in 2001? You would think they would have thrown in one Democrat's house just to make it look fair.

[perfect stranger]

How about just a prison number?

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

This is a little over the top.

While I am certain that Vidkun Quisling and others of his ilk have earned their eternal reward in one of the innermost circles, it is unfair to tar them with the same brush as Pinch.

You see Pinch's life, fortune and sacred honor were never in peril the way they were for Quisling or the Vichy collaborationists. Pinch elected to turn traitor when nothing of his of value was even remotely threatened.

Not even the great poet Dante has the words to describe the fate that Pinch will ultimately face. But if the dead could talk, I bet the Zarkman could give him a few clues.

[Grampa Dave]

[Grampa Dave]