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Posted on 05/21/2003 1:08:07 AM PDT by Timesink
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That about sums it up. But do the suckers over at the Times conned by Blair get it yet?
In Liberal La-La Land discouraging words dare not be spoken for fear of being un-PC.
Unlike, e.g., Johney Apple or the aging Maureen Dowd.
A black racist.
I wonder how other blacks will feel about Blair being a poster boy for them.
"I was tired of listening to the other reporters joke about victims like the five children who were raped by a man in the Bronx," he writes, "or how black-on-black violence was just making the city safer for everyone."
I'm shocked, reporters from NYC are racist?! I thought that only went on in the south perpetrated by rednecks.
Let's hope the one good that come from this is that Howell Raines and all like him heed the words of Martin Luther King when he envisioned a day his own children would "live in a nation not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
"'To be called "honest" by Jayson Blair - there's something to treasure.' - Jonathan Landman"
I'll bet the irony of this remark escaped Jonathon. Jayson's been known to deliver messages from Clio.
Part of reform entails admitting your faults and shortcomings and then taking steps to stop doing those things that got you in trouble to begin with. I see nothing that would lead me to believe that this has occurred, or will occur. Instead Blair has found yet another angle to exploit, that being the race card. There are thousands of young, black African-Americans who would give their right arm to have had the same opportunities as Jayson Blair. Very few of them would abuse it as he did.
No, there won't be any reform, because Jayson Blair is a habitual liar, an opportunist, and a con artist. Anyone who exhibits those traits is usually beyond reform. One has to want to change, and since the lying has worked so well for him, why bother changing. He's no different than William Jefferson Clinton, one of the most famous liars in history. Clinton didn't change even after his so-called fall from grace. He's still out there spewing lies, and making money off those lies. A con artist is a con artist for the rest of his life. No conscience, no guilt, no remorse.
And I want to offer my middle finger, you steaming pile of crap.
Mr. Vigliano also said that suggestions that proceeds from a Blair book would be garnished under the Son of Sam laws—which stipulate that the perpetrator of a crime can’t profit from it, and that any proceeds must go to the victim—were ludicrous because, he said, "Who is the victim that would have to recoup money in Jayson Blair’s case? The New York Times?"
Perhaps some eager attorney out there will put together a class action lawsuit on behalf of the subscribers of the ny times.
I believe I read somewhere that the Justice Dept. is investigating. Not sure exactly what they are looking for.
New York Times investigates concerns raised about other staffers
...Mathis said the Times has not provided any information in response to a request by federal prosecutors for information about Blair. The inquiry was made informally Monday by James Comey, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan.
Neither the newspaper nor the prosecutor's office would describe the information being sought, and Mathis said the Times has not received a subpoena.
It was not clear what crimes could have been committed, but one expert has said the government could consider charges under mail or wire fraud statutes, which allow cases against defendants who devise a scheme "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services."
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