The Price of Our Good Name (NY Times - Must be read not to be believed!)

The New York Times ^ | November 23, 2008

[publius1]

Americans have watched in horror as President Bush has trampled on the Bill of Rights and the balance of power. The list of abuses that President-elect Barack Obama must address is long: once again require the government to get warrants to eavesdrop on Americans; undo scores of executive orders and bill-signing statements that have undermined the powers of Congress; strip out the unnecessary invasions of privacy embedded in the Patriot Act; block new F.B.I. investigative guidelines straight out of J. Edgar Hoover’s playbook.

Those are not the only disasters Mr. Obama will inherit. He will have to rescue a drowning economy, restore regulatory sanity to the financial markets and extricate the country from an unnecessary war in Iraq so it can focus on a necessary war in Afghanistan.

Even with all those demands, there is one thing Mr. Obama must do quickly to begin to repair this nation’s image and restore its self-respect: announce a plan for closing Mr. Bush’s outlaw prison at Guantánamo Bay.

[Seruzawa]

Whodathunk that the NYT would ever make the World Nut Daily look rational?

[raybbr]

You can find out how to contact Mark Greene here.

[rlmorel]

I hadn’t heard any cases where “right-wing media” released information that aided and comforted our enemies, such as intentionally divulging the techniques we were using to find them in an attempt to inflict political damage on a sitting President.

Can you think of any?

[TXnMA]

Does anyone know whether that was a supposed "news" article -- or was it just another dying NYSLIMES proaganda-editorial screed?

Prediction: NYT stock below $5.00 before the week is over...

[tubebender]

Coded plea for Bailout Funds?

[Thommas]

McVeigh..would never be a national hero.

William Ayers is feted and lauded at each of his speaking engagements. He is roundly glad handed by obsequious talk show hosts while their audiences applaud fervently.

To gain equal notoriety, McVeigh would have had to claimed his actions a protest against the bourgeois military industrial complex.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

I hope to see the day when this leftist rag goes out of business.

[engrpat]

Thanks but after reading his bio don’t think it would be worth the effort. He is a real red diaper baby.

[GVnana]

What a bag of puke. Sometimes I just dread opposition research.

[dsc]

“Prosecuting a newspaper for despicable crimes is hardly the same as shutting down a publication because the administration disagrees with its opinion.”

Unless one is a leftist.

If they couldn’t invoke the false moral equivalence, the left would be reduced to silence.

[dsc]

“the attack on 9/11 did indeed come out of the blue in the sense that no one ever took such a possibility seriously enough to figure out what to do about it.”

Never mind that Tom Clancy told us it was going to happen years earlier.

[Lancey Howard]

LOL! I don't want to give their website a hit (and I read enough from the excerpt to get the idea anyway) but I can't tell whose column this is? Is the NY Times publishing Barbra Streisand's blog now? (It wouldn't surprise me!)

Anyway, you would think the grownups at the paper (if there still are any!) would pre-emptively tackle this kind of embarrassing nonsense before the kids can get their hands on it and publish it as a joke. It is precisely this lack of adult oversight that has led to this:

[kcvl]

I think the NYT's need to worry about 'the price of our good name' (their fish wrapper) before it starts lecturing anyone else.

[Old Professer]

No wonder they compare him to Abraham Licoln...

[Eagles6]

So true.

[vonbadd]

Best continuing practice: Whenever you get one of their mailings, send the envelope back with a few pennies in it.

They will not only have to pay the postage (more pennies, more weight, I don’t know if they would have to pay for that extra weight), but, their employee who receives this currency will waste their shift processing it through channels. It will have to be logged, accounted, deposited, etc.

Its fun.

OR;

Mail it back without signature or payment method. I think I wrote “*&%# you” on the form and mailed it back (drunk maybe); they interpreted this as a renewal order! I called them and cancelled after three or four weeks of delivery and I never paid.

[Mike Darancette]

.....undo scores of executive orders and bill-signing statements that have undermined the powers of Congress....

Words, only words.

[Amelia]

I hadn’t heard any cases where “right-wing media” released information that aided and comforted our enemies, such as intentionally divulging the techniques we were using to find them in an attempt to inflict political damage on a sitting President. Can you think of any?

I've heard plenty of media reports based on "classified information" that was leaked by someone in the administration, and I haven't heard of anyone being disciplined, terminated, or prosecuted for leaking that classified information.

How about you?

[rlmorel]

Yeah. Back it up. Give me an example, and no dumbass “unverified sources” crap. Go ahead. Do it. I’ll wait.

The NYT PRINTED against the express wishes of the administration information that it would hurt our war efforts.

Heard plenty of “media reports”? Grow up.

[Amelia]

Sheesh.

Go google “classified report” and see how many stories you can find based on leaked information.

You’ll get dozens of media reports based on classified information in the first few pages. Yeah, some are from the NY Times, which means someone was feeding them classified information, but there are others from CNN, USA Today, and other media outlets.

The point is, someone had to have given them that information.