AIM's Self-Defeating Boycott, and a Boycott that we can ruin

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Back in October, Accuracy In Media announced the formation of its "Boycott The New York Times" Campaign, a project that was to be run by B-list right-wing pundit Don Feder.

Though initially launched to combat what it saw as the paper's "persistent leftist bias" during the election, it appears as if the campaign and its accompanying website are still in operation and yesterday Feder penned an attack on the "paper’s moral relativism applied to the war on terrorism" and proclaimed that the Times has a lot in common with terrorists around the world:

While The Times may be appalled by terrorists’ acts, it frequently agrees with their goals.

Like Al-Qaeda, it believes there should be no U.S. presence in the Middle East. Like Hamas, it believes Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian land. Like jihadists around the world, it believes we brought 9/11 on ourselves by our arrogance and cultural insensitivity, and an imperialist foreign policy.

Some acts of terrorism are committed with bombs and bullets, others with newsprint and ink.

http://rightwingwatch.org/content/aims-self-defeating-boycott

"Some acts of terrorism are committed with bombs and bullets, others with newsprint and ink."

Yeah, Accuracy in Media, you'd know all about that, wouldn't you? I wonder how the residents of EL MOZOTE feel about that claim you just made.

AIM has a petition site up about it's NYT boycott, who feels like spoiling it and reminding them of how they covered up one of the biggest crimes against humanity in modern Latin American history?

"The El Mozote Massacre took place in the village of El Mozote, in Morazán department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981, when Salvadoran armed forces trained by the United States killed at least 1000 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign. It is reputed to be the worst such atrocity in modern Latin America history.

The conservative press watch organization Accuracy in Media charged the newspapers and the reporters with conspiring to hold their stories until late January, just before President Reagan was required to certify that El Salvador's military forces were making progress in human rights in order to continue the subsidies. The reporters denied the charge.

In late July, Accuracy in Media devoted an entire edition of its AIM Report to Bonner. Its editor Reed Irvine declared that "Mr. Bonner had been worth a division to the communists in Central America". Irvine made insinuations about Bonner's political sympathies, noting that he had once worked for Ralph Nader, omitting that he had been a Marine Corps officer in Vietnam, and all but calling him a communist agent."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre#Backlash

Their petition (You will want an email address that you don't want to use):

http://boycottnyt.com/boycott-the-new-york-times-petition/

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1. Jeeesh, behind the times - I thought AIM = American Indian Movement! n.t

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2. Sadly, I thought it meant AOL Instant Messenger nt