Posted on 07/20/2009 9:14:01 PM PDT by This Just In
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July 20, 2009
NY Times reaches a new low
Jack Kemp
Back at the time of the William Kennedy Smith rape trial in Florida, in the 1990s, the NY Times had published the name of the alleged rape victim after the local New York WNBC television station aired it. Later, at the trial, the then-head of the National Enquirer was entering the court building when journalists asked him if he would be also publishing the name of the alleged rape victim.
In answering in the negative, an incredible role reversal occurred. The National Enquirer publisher lifted his nose and sneered, "Who do you think we are? The New York Times?"
This month, Noel Sheppard's Newsbusters reports:
"On July 12, the New York Times claimed Sarah Palin's hair was thinning, and used it as evidence that the Alaska governor was not handling the stress of office well:
Friends worried that she appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele."
Gov. Palin's hairdresser has denied the charges, Newsbusters goes on to say.
Even my own low opinion of the New York Times has been lowered. They have now become Maureen Dowd Meets The Weekly World News.
What Rush Limbaugh has referred to as "The Chickification of the News" is in full oeuvre here. The New York Times is now publishing a gossip opinion about Gov. Palin's hair - with no medical evidence to back up their catty remark. Did their reporters overhear this in the lunchroom of an exclusive Manhattan private girls' school? Or was it written on a bathroom wall?
The Times is obviously clearly afraid of Sarah Palin. But who thought that they would sound like a girls' lunchroom clique IN PRINT, documenting their fear for all the world to see? Perhaps the two authors of this Times article, Jim Rutenberg and Serge F. Kovaleski, could take some lessons from the Alaskan Governor on how to comport themselves.
I’m very sorry, but isn’t Jack Kemp in the great beyond?
How about “Poo-porters”... People who carry other people’s poo.
Times,
Heal Thyself!
That depends. Is there just one Jack Kemp?
A PETITION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
SARAH TURNS TO FIGHT FOR AMERICA
A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH
...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.
I wouldn’t read the Time if someone paid me to do so. About all it’s good for is lining the litter box.
They’re all girls over at the N.Y.Times.
Not all girls are jealous and running scared from Sarah Palin. The boys are being catty as well. It’s called Marxism. They’re all Marxists at the NYT.
Palin threads require pictures. Where are the Sarah Palin pictures?
You are far too kind ---- and I say that as someone who was once proud to be a "reporter."
“About all it’s good for is lining the litter box.”
Providing your cat is liberal.
The New York Times, back in the 80s when President Reagan was in office, ran a front page article about First Lady Nancy Reagan that claimed she had a love affair with Frank Sinatra.
As I recall, it was not backed up by any factual evidence. The sole value of that article was to smear Nancy Reagan in one of the most despicable manners possible.
I stopped regularly reading the New York Times in the late 70s, and after that article dropped it from my newspaper reading list altogether.
Most ‘news’ agencies now have three main sources of news.
API
UPI
Twitter
I’m a girl .... and I totally admire Sarah.
Just the boys who want to be girls. They’re fabulous and they’re scared!
Or moronic whores.
If the Obama war room ordered the NYT to print that Sarah Palin was originally born on Mars or was seen around the Michael Jackson estate on the day he died they would print it.
I’m a woman, and I am fully in Sarah Palin’s camp. I believe she would be among the greatest presidents we’ve ever had should we be so blessed.
She has my vote any time. I’m not jealous of her. I’m happy and confident in myself. I admire her, and I respect her so much as an American woman.
The Marxists are using “womanish” things to criticize her about with the hope that that will quash female support for her. I believe that strategy is failing and that shrillness will become louder as the failure becomes more obvious.
Go Sarah go!!!!!!
Without the WWN's creativity and humor.
Purporters of the daily Snewz.
There were at least two, and the one who writes for American Thinker is still alive.
That article was written by Maureen Dowd, when she was a reporter, before she started writing her opinion column.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/07/us/all-that-glitters-is-not-real-book-on-nancy-reagan-says.html
Jeannine
Thanks! That's world class; and, a keeper.
You know, I no longer care what comes from that organization... It will disappear one of these days.
However, let me tell you what I care about :)
Or at least before she started getting paid to write opinion columns...
I’m a girl, and I have a tremendous girl crush on her.
Well said.
*Therefore, you’re saying it for me, too. ;-)*
“NY Times Reaches a New Low”
If you were talking about their stock price then you could use this headline every day.
;-)
You left off the other main source - their own arses.
It’s AP, not API.
UPI is now owned by the Washington Times, and is considered anathema by most news organization.
You mean:
AP
Reuters (British/Islamofascist)
NYT
CNN
AFP (French)
Thank you for the up to date, and precise information.
It now seems all those mentioned are starting to go to Twitter for their ‘breaking’ news.
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