Brit Hume Grapevine: Why Did They Look Into It? (NY Times only 'asking questions' about Roberts)

Fox News ^ | 8/05/05 | Brit Hume

[denydenydeny]

Adding: I'm summarizing the lefty point of view in my previous comment, it's NOT my own.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

What am I missing here? It's what reporters do.

 

You're kidding, right?

 

How 'bout to start with, just what the hell does this have to do with Roberts' appointment to the Supreme Court?

 

People do everything short of murder, and in extreme cases even consider that in order to adopt children. Still it is their own da_n business unless there are laws broken. After you take into account Roberts' standing in life, this is nothing more than a BS witch hunt to stain his reputation. When are the American People going to stand up and tell these a$$h@les enough is enough? This partisan backstabbing serves no one, it is time to put a stop to it!

 

I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned, for a major newspaper to start advocating the diminishment of a person's civil rights is just an absolutely low down, stinkin',  political, dirty trick!

 

The length the left is willing to dive into the dumpster in order to promote their political ideals is just disgusting!

[streetpreacher]

...because I want my side to always be digging too.

For garbage? Sorry but I hope our side has just a shred more of decency than the leftist swine.

[tobyhill]

Reporters report the news based on the foundation with the probability of information and cross the line when they attempt to build this foundation without reason. What the NY Times did was attempt to create news where there is none. The only thing that could have come from the unsealing of documents was that Judge Roberts jumped line on adoptions but everyday parents of the adopted are given preferences based on their lifestyle and accomplishments so again it was attempting to promote a story where none existed.

[Cosmo]

".....Mighty wide of them."

First it was "hugh", then came "series," now we've got "wide."

Go ahead -- Call me a wide ass.

[leadpenny]

god forbid, Hillary becomes president and nominates her husband to the Supreme Court. You bet your bippy I want my side pulling out the stops. No rules in love or politics.

[leadpenny]

Still, as far as we know, no laws broken. The only thing that will hurt a newpaper and it's owners is circulation numbers.

[little jeremiah]

Another interesing side point is the large number of homosexuals who work for the NYT...very large proportion. Grampa Dave knows all about it.

Very often when you read a particulalry nasty lying biased leftist hitpiece, the writer is also a homosexual activist.

[tobyhill]

While no law may have been committed the thing that will hurt them is credibility. Anyone with any common sense knows what the Slimes were up to and it was not to lend joy to children being adopted by good parents it was to create a story, where none existed, and make Judge Roberts look bad. People are sick and tired of this BS journalism and are shutting these propagandist out in record numbers.

[Grampa Dave]

"Very often when you read a particulalry nasty lying biased leftist hitpiece, the writer is also a homosexual activist."

There are thousands of Jayson Blairs pretending to be journalists all over our nation. They hate President Bush and there isn't anything they wouldn't say or lie about to hurt him.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

Still, as far as we know, no laws broken. The only thing that will hurt a newspaper and it's owners is circulation numbers.

No doubt. Makes one wonder just how many subscribers they intend to lose, doesn't it? I haven't seen the numbers lately, but it has been publicized that they are losing big time.

How neurotic do you have to be to keep losing money over your refusal to see the writing on the wall? The country is just full of these idiots lately.

[McGavin999]

So, the right to "privacy" only applies to women getting abortions, not to any other citizen under any other circumstance. This is so low it can't even be measured.

[Cowboy Bob]

It maybe time to investigate the private lives of a few Big Media so-called journalists...

I've been saying this for a long time. Should also investigate people like Ralph Neas and his ilk too.

[McGavin999]

Except nobody is talking about the adoption, they're talking about the total lack of ethics and common decency of the New York Times.

[pollyannaish]

Oh, but they are not in a position of power, dontcha know.

[McGavin999]

If the NYT was told that I hope they stopped there.

How stupid would you have to be not to know that a sealed record is SEALED! Adoption has always been sealed, it's for the benefit of the child. To breach that seal would only HURT a child.

Going after a man who has been nominated for the USSC by harming his children, putting their entire well being at risk to advance your petty political agenda is well beyond despicable. The New York Times had to know that it's illegal to get into sealed records. They didn't care, they wanted to find dirt, and it didn't matter if they ruined the lives of children along the way.

Every single stockholder of the NYT will reap the blowback on this one.

[Grampa Dave]

Also, if freepers own any mutual fund which has a sizeable share of NYT stock, send an email to the fund manager and ask him to justify why he/she/it dares to own NYT stock. SPX is the symbol for the S&P 500 index.

Conclude with "Unless you sell this loser, I will be filing charges with the SEC against you, this fund and the fund family. There is no reason beside liberal PCism to own the stock of the NY Times." Then copy the CEO of the fund family.

[little jeremiah]

I'm sure you noticed FR's poll Poll:

Do you think the mainstream media is honest?

No
96.5%

Yes
2.4%

Undecided/Pass
1.1%

I'm amazed that 2.4% said "yes". I guess that means 2.4% of FR members/lurkers are trolls. Along with the undecideds.

[oldbrowser]

What am I missing here? It's what reporters do.

You are missing the obvious intent.

[mware]

The problem was when they ask an attorney how to unseal the documents.

They were on a fishing expedition, looking for dirt. Well, they are the news now. Hope they like it.