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The Paper of Wreckage

NYT reporters caught red-handed reporting
By Allan Uthman

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Radio talker Melanie Morgan said that if the New York Times’ executive editor were tired and convicted for the article, she "would have no problem with him being sent to the gas chamber." These sentiments were more or less echoed by Michelle Malkin, Cal Thomas, Bill Kristol, and the usual gang of idiots, including a few congressmen and the White House itself. The charges are the usual bullshit: treason, sedition, espionage. The one thing these various accusers have in common, besides an abiding devotion to the Bush administration, is that they all have a troubled relationship with the first amendment, and have now grown to despise it.

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...In a normal world, these facts would have shut everybody up within a couple of days. But facts like these just bounce off the skulls of Bush loyalists, and they keep right on repeating the charges which have just been refuted so effectively, still insisting that vital secrets have been revealed to the enemy, as if they can simply will it to be true.

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Take David Horowitz. Horowitz is head ape at the Scaife-funded FrontPageMag.com, an online magazine that specializes in accusing left-wingers—mostly journalists and university professors—of treason. Always quick to attack media reports which inform us of our own government’s activities as deliberate attempts to inform “our enemies,” FrontPageMag needs no more proof against its opponents than that they disseminate information that doesn’t please the editors of FrontPageMag. Their rhetoric is so reminiscent of similar Nazi accusations of the press and intellectuals in general that it is nearly impossible not to notice.

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Horowitz is right; there is a war going on in this country. A war between people who actually believe in freedom, and people who would have their own countrymen jailed or killed for violating their precious ignorance. And the way things look today, with a mainstream bore like the New York Times on the chopping block, I’m not feeling very confident about winning.

Found in GD:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1692439&mesg_id=1692439

[Mythsaje]

1. They only prove my point...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1677341&mesg_id=1677341