Posted on 10/31/2008 6:12:29 PM PDT by vadum
Today I received the following email via Facebook from Dan Mitchell, a New York Times reporter. It was a reaction to my appearance last night on the satirical news show, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” On the show I talked about community organizing, ACORN, electoral fraud and related matters.
Mr. Mitchell wrote:
I notice that you have a picture of you and Oliver there. This seems to be fairly common among people who have humiliated themselves before millions of people on shows like the Daily Show -- they pretend they were in on the whole thing and it's all just a big laugh. But it doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of people who know you will *always* know you as a giant asshole. And this will never change. This video will be online forever, haunting you, and superceding everything you have ever done or ever will do. And rightfully so. You deserve it.
The photo he is referring to is a profile photo I posted in Facebook that was taken of me with reporter/comedian John Oliver after the taping a few weeks ago.
Here is a screen grab of the email:
How do I know Dan Mitchell is a reporter for the New York Times? Because when I attempted to block Mr. Mitchell from communicating with me, this helpful information box popped up (another screen grab):
Isn’t it interesting how the New York Times has been using Facebook to attack conservatives? Just two weeks ago it was revealed that New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor went snooping around on Facebook and sent an email to the youngest daughter of Senator John McCain, Bridgette, in hopes of scoring an exclusive interview.
And isn’t it interesting that just today a new news story broke about yet another ACORN employee involved with crack cocaine. Talk about a Bill Ayers moment.
We’ve received quite a few negative comments related to my appearance on “The Daily Show,” but the last thing we expected was harassment from a reporter for the nation’s supposed newspaper of record.
The New York Times is major-league biased. Big time.
What's your problem? You almost try to defend the Times by saying Mitchell might well be a janitor and not a reporter, and you got outed as wrong. You're the one who should have done a little search on Mitchell before you posted your comment (I did!).
Face it. you're wrong, Valum is right. Take it like a man.
It’s an opportunity to reach out to a whole new segment of people. I don’t think everyone who watches the show is hopelessly doctrinaire-left. A lot of people watch it because it’s funny. I do (though not every night). I thought the movie “Reds” was an awesome piece of cinema even though I despise the ideas underlying it. But I digress.
Besides, the crack allegation is true even though I admit it sounds absurd at first. Somebody has to set the record straight about this group ACORN.
Proof: http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/?p=2190
I’m not embarrassed at all, nor should I be.
If you actually go back and read my post in its entirety, you will see I was quite clear that I wasn't defending the times and that I thought they were biased (first sentence of the post). I also said EVEN IF HE IS A REPORTER, the fact that the guy made a Facebook post doesn't prove anything about the times.
Where do you work? Do your posts here reflect the opinion of your employer?
The NYSLimes stock is now rated as junk. This may be the last national election in which the Slimes can pretend to be relevant. And good riddance.
There is a fund after the NYT, but it ain’t Rupert:
This is oh-so-much more delicious irony. A southern family, with money from construction and coal? How declasse’.
Murdoch might make a run at the NYT, but I think he would run afoul of anti-trust laws. Remember, he already owns the NY Post, and now the WSJ/Dow Jones.
You’re missing the point. He is a reporter. Check the NYT website. And he is obviously extremely biased. That’s the point of this. The NYT harassed McCain too by sending an email to his youngest daughter through Facebook. Look it up. There is no conspiracy theory here. Just facts. The left harasses the right by any means possible.
Sometimes the truth (i.e. crack and ACORN) is unpalatable. Deal with it.
I think the fact that a reporter for any print outlet would allow his workplace to be linked to puerile sniggering is unprofessional. That would seem to be the point.
As a private citizen, Mr. Mitchell can send all the inane, sneering e-mails he wants. When he allows those missives to be traced to his place of employment, he crosses a line. On top of that, given his occupation and its code of ethics, he has erred egregiously.
No doubt the NYT is biased, but HEY I said that in the first sentence of my reply. What I am saying is that some guy posting on Facebook, or DU, or here for that matter, doesn’t prove that his reporting at his day job is biased. Your logic is flawed. Deal with it.
The New York Times has demonstrated, over and over, what a bush league outfit it is. The man behind the curtain is a pathetic little weasel who no longer wields the power he once had to influence news cycles with the wave of his hand. It’s hemorrhaging subscriptions and advertisers, who are bailing like rats from sinking ship.
I know about the connection between crack and ACORN. That is not the point.
I am sorry to tell you but, had I not known who you were, I would have thought they used an actor to impersonate the “stereotypical” cook republican. You were edited horribly. You have not reached anyone that was not already on our side. Moreover you unwittingly participated in a propaganda effort worthy of the best Hitler and Stalin could have put together.
Sometimes I think our side falls in the same trap our liberal friends do. We become guided by good intentions. You may have had good intentions going there, but the result was atrocious.
Some entities cannot be reasoned with, reformed, approached, or persuaded. The stinking putrefied offal that trickles out of the Daily Show’s gutter is one such entity. This is not a show born out of the wonderful effusion of liberty of the press which just happens to lean left. This is a full fledged anti-traditional values propaganda effort aimed at changing our country. Our side should steer clear.
And people have never been known to use fake names on Facebook?
Anyone could be Dan Michell on facebook..
Not that I doubt it is actually him. Seems to fit the integrity of NYT’s bigots.. er...”writers”
How can you stand watching that “daily show” crap? (and the garbage that follows it- colbert) Same old garbage night after night. It isn’t funny at all.
The only people who laugh at it are left wing moon bats, and their laughter isn’t really laughter, it’s hatred. They’d laugh watching an abortion.
If I had Soro's money, I'd buy it just to tear it down, and put a plaque where it once stood saying, "Finally, justice for all those Ukrainian people who starved to death while fat NYT's editors smacked their lips feasting on their bread and butter"
Where I work and what I do is of no concern of yours. My employer is not in the business of attempting to influence people to think and believe a certain way, like the Times is.
Just as a salesperson is a representative of the company they work for, so is a reporter, and therefore a reflection of that company's philosophy.
I agree with you about people's overreactions to a single source of info, instead of doing the intelligent thing, and doing a little digging themselves, but what can you do - liberals and their ilk can only hold one thought in their head at a time, hence their ability to have opposing beliefs (belief in free speech, but shouting down those who don't agree - and calling that their free speech right!).
Mitchell is a bona fide Times reporter, and whether or not he was on "company time" when he sent the email to Valum is irrelevant; As a reporter for the Times, he always represents the Times, just as Brit Hume "represents" FOX news channel, and the libs would surely jump on him and FOX if Brit sent a similar email to someone.
I like how you think.
If I had Soros’ money, I would be inclined to do the same. I might not be so charitable on the plaque tho. I would find a way to implicate the conspiracy of liberal subscribers to the paper all these years for their feckless complicity and support.
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