Posted on 02/25/2008 7:50:19 PM PST by jazusamo
The front page of the New York Times has increasingly become the home of editorials disguised as "news" stories. Too often it has become the home of hoaxes.
Going back some years, it was the Tawana Brawley hoax that she had been gang-raped by a bunch of white men. Just a couple of years ago, it was the Duke University "rape" hoax that they fell for.
In between there were the various hoaxes of New York Times reporter Jason Blair, who was kept on and promoted until too many people found out what he had been doing and the paper had to let him go.
Last month the New York Times created its own hoax with a long front page article about how war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were killing people back in the United States because of the stress they had gone through in combat.
That hoax was shot down two days later by the New York Post, which showed that the murder rate among returning war veterans was only one-fifth the murder rate among civilians in the same age brackets.
Undaunted, the New York Times has come up with its latest front-page sensation, the claim that some anonymous people either suspected an affair between Senator John McCain and a female lobbyist or tried to forestall an affair.
But apparently no one actually claimed that they knew there was an affair...
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It can't be stated enough times ... well said, Invisible Hand
You’ve got him mixed up with Walter Williams whose wife just died.
>> “But it is doubtful if we have seen the last of the journalistic hoaxes.”
There is much to be said about the future of journalism should it retain its title as such. Sourcing, editorials, and syndication will continue to change and I believe for the better. The lease to the province of ‘news’ has expired.
More absolutely. :)
WW’s wife died? I’m sorry to hear it. But I have to say, in the years I listened to WW subbing for rush, WW often had some rude things to say about his wife. It was one of the things that started me turning off Ww when he filled in for Rush.
I hadn’t heard Thomas Sowell subbing for Rush. Thought it was Walter Williams.
ohhh that’s right...
ouch
I always took it as sarcastic humor.
BTTT
bttt
That has to be one of the smartest things I've ever read.
His comments about his wife were total sarcasm. I believed the relationship was quite the opposite. I always thought that he probably worshipped her, but this was his way to get at the feminazi’s.
I always took it as sarcastic humor.
How right you are. In radio, wife jokes are just that, jokes.
My favorite is when he said the most important thing his wife had to know is which end of the vacuum cleaner to hold.
Thomas Sowell for VP.
Unfortunately,He has too much integrity
and intellect for the job.
(Not to slight Dick Cheney).
I wonder where the Slimes got that idea from.
"there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood."
Good thinking, Smooth.
That could well be the turkey who planted that seed, I wouldn’t put anything past him.
You’re thinking about Walter Williams when He
substitutes for El Rushbo.
Still humorous,but we know who rules the roost
in the Williams coop.
It's not really all that different.
Kirk and Madsen openly espouse and refer to their own homosexual agenda as "unabashed propaganda," yet such characterization is found nowhere in the NYT, but rather, conservative and Christian politicians are routinely cowed into deafening silence at the mere thought of some Tammy-Baldwin- or Barney-Frank-type unabashedly, propagandistically calling them a moralistic, bigoted homophobe and it appearing in the NYT.
The entire Leftist coalition supports this lying propaganda aimed at school-based indoctrination and recruitment, and half the population continues to vote for politicians of that political "bent," and similar evil from lawmaker-killers of the world's most innocent.
Thomas Sowell (and others), tear this newspaper down!
But don't let me hijack the thread!
HF
an american treasure
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