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One Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words of Editorializing (NY Times Pics = Hick Immigration Opponents)
Ace Of Spades ^ | June 22, 2007 | Ace Of Spades

Posted on 06/25/2007 5:56:25 PM PDT by lowbridge

New York Times photographers, fair and balanced. How the New York Times sees the world -- and, more importantly, how the New York Times presents its view of the world to the public.

Amnesty supporters:

Amnesty opponents:

Even liberal writer Nicholas Von Hoffman noticed:

The other day The New York Times did a piece on the grass-roots opponents of the great compromise immigration bill. The accompanying photos showed a bunch of snaggletoothed retards living in trailers on the outskirts of town near the dump.

Thus the message is conveyed that if you want to identify yourself with right-thinking mainstreamers, you will be in favor of this bill. Episcopalians are, Harvard-educated reform Jews are, Roman Catholics who favor a woman’s right to choose are, so get with the respectables and let your legislator know you love this bill.

Amusingly (and ironically -- mostly), he then begins referring to immigration opponents as "snaggle people," lampooning the NYT's editorial position.

How liberal is Von Hoffman, by the way? Pretty liberal -- so liberal that Andrew Sullivan named his "Von Hoffman Award" for him, due to his prediction of a crushing Taliban victory in Afghanistan made just before they were routed.

His article is well-worth reading, though -- he's calling for an immigration pause, something that few except Nixon-goes-to-China lefties feel comfortable calling for, lest we be called "racist" by Lindsay Graham.

The NYT's brave new public editor (i.e., shill apologist) of course denies any editorial intent by illustrating opposition of to the bill as coming entirely from corncob-smokin' chicken-chokin' banjo-strokin' cousin-pokin' lynch-ropin' inbred hillbilly racist mutants:

I asked Michele McNally, the assistant managing editor in charge of photography, why her editors would choose to run a picture of a man missing a tooth when they had to know it could contribute to stereotypes about the kinds of people opposing the immigration bill. She said there had indeed been a discussion about Murphy’s appearance: how not to show his missing eye, which looked less flattering.

“I think it is discriminatory to say all toothless people who represent controversial positions shouldn’t be used,” she said. “This is a very big country that has a variety of styles and types.”

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I think all those people who have been complaining about Murphy’s photo owe him an apology. They assumed that, because he was missing a tooth, he was missing a brain. They also assumed that editors at The Times shared their prejudices and were attempting to ridicule opponents of the immigration bill.

They were wrong on both counts.

What bull$%&#. I've seen some illegal immigrants, and let me tell you, they're not all comely. Some are pretty rough-looking, as a matter of fact. And yet New York Times photographers have this knack of presenting only the most telegenic and pull-the-hearstrings illegals to illustrate its pieces.

I suppose the NYT's public editor will rebut that that little guy doesn't have all of his teeth, either.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alfredeneuman; bias; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; liberalbigots; mediabias; msm; nytimes; toothlessidiot
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To: potlatch

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My torturedtillas are not like yours!


81 posted on 06/26/2007 5:29:12 PM PDT by devolve ( _Illegal_Aliens_Killed_25_Americans_Each_Day _A_Mex_Illegal_Alien_Sold_911_Terrorists_IDs_)
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To: devolve

Lol, I know - but what ever tickles your fancy - Or whatever hot sauce tickles your tonsils!!

Speaking of fancies, what happened to the Paris Hilton reply? Snicker.


82 posted on 06/26/2007 5:41:50 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: dragnet2
I went to the Ace of Spades link, and this is what it said about the eye:

I asked Michele McNally, the assistant managing editor in charge of photography, why her editors would choose to run a picture of a man missing a tooth when they had to know it could contribute to stereotypes about the kinds of people opposing the immigration bill. She said there had indeed been a discussion about Murphy’s appearance: how not to show his missing eye, which looked less flattering.

“I think it is discriminatory to say all toothless people who represent controversial positions shouldn’t be used,” she said. “This is a very big country that has a variety of styles and types.”

So he is missing an eye! They did us a favor by covering it up a little ;-)

83 posted on 06/29/2007 12:53:27 AM PDT by KittyKares
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