Posted on 01/30/2009 6:52:59 AM PST by AIM Freeper
In her new book, Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America ironically, currently #2 on The New York Times Best Sellers List Ann Coulter excoriates Americas newspaper of wretched. Here are a few of her disclosures:
* On October 15, 2008, the Obama campaigns internal pre-debate talking points were inadvertently released to the media. On the same day, The New York Times ran a story in its politics blog, The Caucus, that bore striking similarities to the Obama memo. For instance, both predicted that McCain would bring up Obamas ties to ex-terrorist William Ayers. The Times essentially took the Obama memo, changed a few words, and slapped a byline on it.
* In the 2004 campaign, The Times repeatedly referred to charges of the anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans as unsubstantiated. But Coulter notes: By contrast, not once did The Times describe the laughably unsubstantiated charge that Bush went AWOL from his National Guard service as unsubstantiated out of 18 mentions of that allegation.
* When a conservative says something dumb, for The New York Times, its proof positive that hes a moron. But candidate Joe Bidens repeated gaffes showed he doesnt take himself too seriously, according to the paper.
* In reporting on public reaction to Republican intervention to save Terri Schiavio, a Times story claimed, Polls indicating broad public opposition to government involvement in the Schiavo case may be giving some politicians second thoughts. As evidence, it cited an ABC News poll that consistently misstated the facts of the case, and ignored a Zogby poll (that described the case correctly) showing respondents opposed withholding food and water from the disabled woman by 79% to 9%.
* During the 1984 campaign, The Times repeatedly ran stories claiming Mondale was closing the gap on Reagan. In 1996, there were no Times stories on Bob Dole catching up with Bill Clinton, even though Dole lost by a smaller margin than Mondale.
* Coulter comments on The Times use of ideological labels: These are actual New York Times headlines describing two Supreme Court nominees: An Advocate for the Right News story on Bush nominee John Roberts, July 28, 2005. Balanced Jurist at Home in the Middle News story on Clinton nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg, June 27, 1993.
This only skims the surface. Coulters latest book contains reams of evidence on the way The New York Times acts as an adjunct for the left wing of the Democratic P arty.
Toto, this is not your parent's news outlet anymore.
As for you closing comment ... there are lots of 'otherwise intelligent people' who are swayed by the MSM!"
I say BULLSHNIT! If they get their information from the MSM they are not intelligent!
” For instance, both predicted that McCain would bring up Obamas ties to ex-terrorist William Ayers. “
Anyone remember the Obama campaign’s response when it finally WAS brought up? They tied McCain to the Keating Five. That strategy lasted about a day.
You can be intelligent but still be a fool.
I work with several intelligent physicians whom I consider to be fools, as it applies to “buying” liberal ideology.
Militant
“Republican’s first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed”
You want to send the MSM down the tubes? Pull the plug.
Don’t pay a dime for television. No satellite, no cable, no digital, none of it.
Don’t subscribe to Time-Lies-Warner-Turner-CNN magazines.
Don’t subscribe to your daily newspaper.
DEFUND THE LEFT.
Newspapers are already looking for a federal bailout.
Let the old media die. It just served to work in collusion with the DNC on the daily agenda.
“Culture of corruption” was a DNC talking point and the media SAT on the Mark Foley story until October and then CLAIMED that the GOP “knew and did nothing”. It was a talking point designed to turn off the conservative base, paint Mark Foley as a child molester, and win Congress for Pelosi-Reid.
It’s all about swaying the public opinion through a steady diet of propaganda.
Don’t give them a DIME of your money.
Can’t boycott the Times any more than I do now. I don’t even click on links.
And there are professors at Harvard who've fallen for the Nigerian banking scam.
How many gulible Americans willingly voted for congressman with the most liberal record (to the left of Bernie Sanders - Independent Socialist)? They believed him when he ran to the middle in the campaign.
If you don't watch the nightly news, you are uninformed.
If you blindly watch the nightly news, you are misinformed.
Your tagline is flawed:
The MSM has created its own doom.
Except the last two Sunday's, which my local paper reprints, have been Obama love fests.
Oh, yeah? See my tagline! ;-)
Sorry, I forgot to post this: http://boycottnyt.com/take-action
That page has ideas about more ways to take action against the NYT, even if you’re already avoiding the print and online editions. Hope this helps!
Pitchforks and torches outside SeeBS HQ?
it will take a long time and next to impossible to infiltrate the MSM by working from the inside. Perhaps violent overthrow of the studios is needed.
Si,Si.Lotto numbers on the front page!
Major Ditto’s there!
I’ve waited 35 years for a conservative Paper.
What a blessing that would be.
Now I am with you. You are talking about intelligent people, not people with common sense. You mean intelligent in the educated book sense. Academic Dumbshnits! Yeah, those types just handed Bernie Madoff $50 Billion. Intelligent Idiots!
I can’t believe there are 50 some posts here and not one picture of the lovely Ann Coulter. Rules are rules for a reason!
bump
BTT
10-4! The common sense gene is quickly, but surely, evolving out of our society.
Still, it never ceases to amaze me that some otherwise very smart people can be so blind to the things that seem only natural to you and I.
An executive I work with quizzed me on my views about the election, and I TOLD him. His response was along the lines of, “You seem to be a pretty intelligent person.....except for your conservative views.” I explained to him that I actually had quite a liberal bent when I was a younger lad.......but then I grew up.
He didn’t even realize that he’d been insulted!
Militant
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