Times Torments

The New York Post ^ | December 23, 2005 | John Podhoretz

[TheForceOfOne]

SADLY, it's time again for the world to weep and wail and gnash its teeth over the Neediest Cases — those unfortunates chosen by The New York Times during the holiday season for your concern.

So please do what you can about the plight of Li'l Pinchy. This poor little rich boy, who prefers to be called Arthur Sulzberger Jr., is not having a merry Fitzmas. It's only been a few months since the woman he chose as this generation's martyr to journalism, Judith Miller, was run out of Pinchy's own newspaper after Pinchy's editor suggested Judy was fooling around with Scooter Libby.

His underlings at the Times and the entirety of the American Left seem to have decided that Pinchy is personally responsible for the war in Iraq because he allowed his newsroom to publish articles suggesting that (can you believe it?) Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction!

As if to make amends for that decision, Pinchy and his staff last week published an article suggesting that George W. Bush had been engaged in impeachable offenses for bypassing a special wiretapping court. For a moment, it seemed that Pinchy had restored himself to the good graces of the Left.

[TheForceOfOne]

Here is a Time Cover I would love to see! lol

Seriously though, the more we find out about the MSM the more sinister the whole story gets.

[sd-joe]

It sounds like Podhoretz is writing in Maureen Dowd's voice in this.

[TheForceOfOne]

Podhoretz can be a putz, he is on again off again like Bill O'Reilly.

[RabidBartender]

"Don't forget about poor Paul Krugman. Every column he's written since 2001 has said that the Bush economic policies are a disaster — the same ones that have led to 4 percent growth over the past two years and continued strength despite ridiculously high gas prices. Paulie is really in danger of becoming a historical laughingstock."

In the immortal words of Larry the Cable Guy: I don't care who you are, that's funny.

[Oldhunk]

Nice slice and dice of NYT. Enjoyable reading.

[TheForceOfOne]

I picture that idiot hiding in a dark corner of the mail room over at the Times, sucking his thumb and mumbling incoherently to himself and some imaginary friend.

Editor: Hey Paul, we need another Op-Ed piece for tomorrow, Paul, Paul are you okay? Somebody get an ambulance!! lol

[proxy_user]

He is wrong about one thing, though. The publicly traded NYTimes stock is Class B shares, with no voting rights. The Class A shares are held only by members of the Schulzberger and Ochs families.

[TheForceOfOne]

I take your FReeper's word on that, I don't know much about the stock.

[proxy_user]

My info is usually pretty good. I read a lot and remember most of it....

[TheForceOfOne]

I believe you.

[FormerACLUmember]

NY Slimes Holiday Greetings!

[TheForceOfOne]

Hey,
I was watching Fox News yesterday and they did a piece on the ACLU losing a case over displaying the 10 Commandments and they also got read the riot act by a judge.

[FormerACLUmember]

Yes indeedy. Ths ACLU remains however virulently anti-Christian.

[TheForceOfOne]

And it may be their downfall. They speak from a position of extreme bias and don't reflect the opinion of the majority whom they claim these legal cases represent. I think this judge was the first to tell them this but not the last.