Ex-N.Y. Times scribe likens self to Malvo

World Net Daily ^ | 5-24-04 | WND

[cgk]

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ALL THE LIES FIT TO PRINT

Ex-N.Y. Times scribe
likens self to Malvo

Jayson Blair rages at newspaper
he calls 'my slavemaster'

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Posted: May 24, 2003
6:19 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

In a racially charged book proposal titled ''Burning Down My Master's House,'' disgraced former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair likens himself to Lee Boyd Malvo, the alleged triggerman in some of the D.C.-area sniper murders, and hurls unsubstantiated charges of racism at the paper he calls ''my tormentor, my other drug, my slavemaster,'' according to a report by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post.

In the book proposal, read to the Washington Post by a source not connected to Blair, the 27-year-old says of Malvo: ''The moment I began to see parallels between his life and mine was the moment things began falling apart.'' He writes of ''how the frustrations of black men in this world can explode, crescendo into a huge rage that can manifest itself in some odd and sometimes unclear ways.''

Blair, who grew up in a middle-class family, describes himself as someone told he'd never succeed ''by everyone from his white second-grade teacher to his editor at the Times, who rose from the fields and got a place in the master's house and then burned it down the only way he knew how,'' according to the Post.

Blair, who attended college but never graduated, describes the Times as a ''snobbish place'' with hallways filled with Ivy Leaguers.

He also promises to reveal the Times' ''darkest secrets,'' which he says involve drug parties and one editor's affair with an intern.

Tired of being a reporter after four years, Blair said that's when he decided to get back at the Times.

''Each one I got away with felt like a '[expletive] you' to an institution that I had long ago lost any love for," he said, according to the Post.

Blair resigned May 1 after fabricating or plagiarizing at least 36 stories.

Some literary agents say the proposed book could bring the ex-reporter a six-figure advance.

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[martin_fierro]

Both are as good as dead anyway, either professionally or literally.

[CyberAnt]

This guy is nuttier than a fruitcake!!

[Loyalist]

Now that's an interesting analogy!

So who was Jayson Blair's "play daddy"?

[aristeides]

I think, by the time Blair or anybody else knew much about Malvo, Blair's reporting about the sniper case was essentially over.

[First Amendment]

I wonder why liberals of all stripes always feel that "rage" and "anger" are somehow virtuous? They always feel "rage" and it's so holy and justifiable. Just because the dude is black (or medium brown, really) he gets to feel all this "rage" and it justifies all his stupid, dishonest, repellent behavior?
I used to live in Eugene - the ultimate liberal town - and I saw bumper stickers that went something like this:
"If you're not angry you're not paying attention" and
"Don't trust anyone who isn't enraged".
Liberalism is actually a serious mental illness.

Fortunately it's curable.

[Bernard]

I thought this wasn't a racial thing. Or maybe he's planning on running in a Democrat primary, and needs to practice his lines.

[CFC__VRWC]

This guy is nuttier than a fruitcake!!

I agree, but I have to admit it sure feels good to see this psycho bend the Times over and stick it to them. Nothing this guy can do can be anything near what this propaganda rag deserves.

[Faraday]

Nutty as a fruitcake. But he has my full support in exposing the inner workings of the Old Gay Laddie.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...I say again...

...just like I've been asking all through the Sniper Attacks on people walking outside around the D.C., Maryland and Virgina Area =

...Why were these Snipings, and now the bogus scarey New York Times Articles about them, occurring just as Voters were getting ready to stand in Election 2002 Voting Lines at the Polls..?
(Or Not..?)

[MEG33]

How can I possibly find what he says credible? I enjoy seeing the NYT squirm but Blair is no bearer of Truth.

[Vetnet]

This just in:
The NEW YORK TIMES has found a replacement to fill the standard of excellence they are known for:

"YES SIR MR RAINES, I'LL GET RIGHT ON IT!!!"

[CyberAnt]

Well ... I do agree the NYT deserves all the bad publicity Jayson is giving them - the fact he's making the assertion that he was doing it on purpose just doesn't seem to fit. I think he's using it as a ploy to cover up all his errors and faked stories.

Maybe he was really playing them, but I just have a hard time believing that.

[Faraday]

How can I possibly find what he says credible?

If he writes a book, the publisher's lawyers will require supporting evidence to protect themselves from libel suits.

[darkwing104]

This just in: The NEW YORK TIMES has found a replacement to fill the standard of excellence they are known for: "YES SIR MR RAINES, I'LL GET RIGHT ON IT!!!"

ROTFL

[MEG33]

They can't read his mind.He sickens me.I blame the whole scandal on Raines but that doesn't make me want to elevate Blair.I'd like other newspapers to stop treating the NYT as a reliable source.

[CFC__VRWC]

Maybe he was really playing them, but I just have a hard time believing that.

You're right, there's no way he was playing them like he's letting on. He's just frantically trying to engage in CYA, and he's completely oblivious to the fact he's WAY overplaying his part.

But it sure is amusing to watch him so clumsily use the tools and techniques of the race demagogoues against the oh-so-polically correct and righteous New York Times. It's even more amusing to see the Times refusing to engage Blair directly because they're paralyzed by their own terror of appearing to be "insensitive." Jayson Blair and the New York Times deserve each other - they're both equally despicable.

[CyberAnt]

"they're both equally despicable"

Now that I can agree with!!

[Faraday]

This situation reminds me of Al Sharpton saying to Tim Russert on Meet the Press, "I'll respond to your questions about [Tawana Brawley, etc.], after you force Bill Clinton and Hillary to answer questions about their misdeeds." Actually, Blair could be a press secretary for Sharpton.

[MEG33]

Sharpton doesn't need anyone because he's so good at the big lie! The DNC might be able to use him.