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Lie about Genocide and Collect Your Pulitzer Prize
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| 11/13/05
| Perry de Haviland
Posted on 11/13/2005 7:13:18 PM PST by spanalot
The whole issue of Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize in 1932 has always pissed me off. It just rankles that he got away with it, so the least we can do is blacken the bastard's name posthumously for the sake of the millions of dead Ukrainians he lied about.
Now that Harold Pinter has won a Nobel Prize for literature, I guess the tradition of lionising men of letters who are apologists for mass murdering leftists is still alive and well.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: duranty; genocide; haroldpinter; leftists; literature; media; nobelprize; pulitzer
This is like the NY Times fighting to keep a Pulitzer for Goebels
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posted on
11/13/2005 7:13:20 PM PST
by
spanalot
To: spanalot
extremely shameful.. This isn't just about "reporting".. the minimizing ongoing genocide of Ukranians, the New York Times led many honest people to grossly underestimate the threat and horror of communism. I don't think it's going to far to say this bad reporting changed history in a way that resulted in many needless deaths.
To: spanalot
I guess the tradition of lionising men of letters who are apologists for mass murdering leftists is still alive and well.Perhaps the Nobel committee will nominate the author of a very famous 20th century book titled Mein Kampf? It would certainly be a consistent move for them.
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posted on
11/13/2005 7:41:26 PM PST
by
CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
(The heart of the wise man inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. - Eccl. 10:2)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Naw, being anti-Hitler provides them a fig leaf for their adulatory treatment of all the other 20th century mass murderers.
Think of it as tokenism.
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posted on
11/13/2005 7:44:59 PM PST
by
thulldud
(The Democratic military vote is the REAL "Army of One".)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Perhaps the Nobel committee will nominate the author of a very famous 20th century book titled Mein Kampf? It would certainly be a consistent move for them.Perhaps they'll do the next best thing and nominate Noam Chomsky.
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posted on
11/13/2005 7:56:17 PM PST
by
Rocko
(this post kills fascists...and communists)
To: Rocko
There are plenty of NYT writers today equally suited for awards for covering up for Castro, Ho, and now, trying for Saddam.
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:39:27 PM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(MSM: de facto allies of America's enemies.)
To: spanalot
Hey, I absolutely LOVE this website you linked to.... awesome stuff!
Cheers
Lloyd
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:40:22 PM PST
by
Lloyd227
To: thulldud
Actually, the N.Y. Times wasn't very anti-Hitler and during the entirety of the Nazis power, mentioned Concentration Camps exactly four times, on toto, hidden in the back pages, as the Sultzburgers were trying to get their kith and kin out of harm's reach.
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:43:29 PM PST
by
nopardons
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Perhaps the Nobel committee will nominate the author of a very famous 20th century book titled Mein Kampf? After all Nazi did sound for National SOCIALIST PARTY
Therefor they must be okay. Sarcasm off.
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posted on
11/13/2005 8:43:46 PM PST
by
cpdiii
(Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Oil Field Trash and proud of it, full time Iconoclast.)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Perhaps the Nobel committee will nominate the author of a very famous 20th century book titled Mein Kampf? It would certainly be a consistent move for them. The Nobel committee is going to open a new category in conjunction with the Academy Awards just so they can award The Protocols of Zion as best screenplay.
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posted on
11/14/2005 12:10:59 AM PST
by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: nopardons
My reference was to contemporary liberalism. Hitler is a "safe" bad guy for them, because he's not a current threat. Living bad guys that could conceivably show up in tomorrow's paper saying something nasty about them get the kid glove treatment.
Liberals stand for virtue only when it costs them nothing.
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posted on
11/14/2005 9:36:20 AM PST
by
thulldud
(The Democratic military vote is the REAL "Army of One".)
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