Scandal Machine (NY Times Editorial Board has a hissy fit)

NY Times ^ | 5/16/13 | NY Times Editorial Board

[GOPJ]

Seems like the media fascists are regaining their bearings.

Dem 'war room' staffers write letters to the Times - pretending to be conservatives to keep hatred for us ginned up.

It's like the lesbian who carved hate messages into her own skin and tried to blame conservatives.

Or the college feminist who threatened herself with rape and tried to blame it on white conservative men.

In the liberal world this type of lie is typical... and yet the press doesn't 'catch it'... Some among them have helped write the fake letters... it shouldn't be hard to investigate this...

[tanknetter]

The Times claims that there’s no evidence of tyrannical government on the rampage.

Unfortunately their arguments supporting that claim DO make the case for incompetent tyrannical government on the rampage.

Which may very well be worse.

Even if ( a very BIG if, given latest information ) there was no ideological bias in the targeting of Tea Party groups, you still have government flunkies who were completely tone deaf and oblivious to how their “non ideological” actions would be seen and taken. We’re talking about a breathtaking lack of common sense on their part.

[CatherineofAragon]

“It’s wrong only when you do it to US!”

[Bender2]

Re: Scandal Machine (NY Times Editorial Board has a hissy fit)

Perhaps, like Dave Bowman... they looked into the huge jet black void and exclaimed--

"My God,... it's full of scandals!"

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hey, Pinch,

Obama knows you called 976-HOTBOYS 174 times over a three month period...

[MEGoody]

The Internal Revenue Service, according to an inspector general’s report, was not reacting to political pressure or ideology when it singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny in evaluating requests for tax exemptions. It acted inappropriately because employees couldn’t understand inadequate guidelines.

Funny. . .they didn't seem to have a problem understanding the guidelines when it came to groups with liberal sounding names.

[TBP]

The details of the troubles swirling around the White House this week are bluntly contradicting the folks at the New York Times who want to protect Obama and the Democrats from any consequences for their tyrannical activities.

[TBP]

Obama knew the horrific inside details at the time of the 60/Min interview---as the facts clearly show now----so then the entire Kroft interview was a lie. What does Kroft say now, knowing he was lied to?

He says Obama and Hillary told the absolute truth, undoubtedly.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the only reason this AP thing came up now is because the administration sees it as a chance to pass a media shield law to permit unlawful leaking of classified intel to handicap intelligence agencies legitimate work, and to deny bloggers and private citizens the same free speech rights and privileges as government-approved press outlets.

Thank you!

I haven’t been a bit happy about the AP brouhaha, and you have articulated/clarified my own thoughts. The AP newswire is a virtual meeting of all major American journalism outlets, and it has been going on continually since before the Civil War. Adam Smith’s dictum that    

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)

implies that by now the AP is, and has long since been, little else but “a conspiracy against the public.” A conspiracy to promote journalism, and politicians who go along and get along with journalism, at the expense of the people and organizations which do not merely boast and propagandize but which efficiently get the needful things done. To hear the journalistic cabal tell it, its second guess is of greater value than the first guess of the businessman, the soldier, or the policeman. To hear that cabal tell it, any law with a noble-sounding name must be beneficial, because the only danger to the public comes from people who will obey the law and will not adjust their affairs in response to a change in law. To hear that cabal tell it, people who live outside of US jurisdiction, people who disregard US law even though it applies to them, and people who will respond to the law - Chinese who are currently building coal-fired electric power plants by the dozen, scofflaws who commit violent crimes in “gun-free” zones, employers who will make certain not to employ enough people to trigger the “Affordable Care” law, and so forth - cannot matter.

Believe me, AP is ALL FOR THAT because they are already happy to act as state-run news, as is the NY Times.

To my understanding, the causality runs pretty much the other way. The government is run by “liberals,” because “liberals” go along and get along with the journalism cabal and therefore “liberals” get elected. The very fact that “liberals” are called “liberals” - a positive label whose meaning was inverted in the 1920s - must be due to the cooperation, if not the leadership, of the journalism cabal.

The Media Shield Law is an effort promoted by Dan Ellesberg, who both wrote and stole the Pentagon Papers that undermined the US in the Vietnam war, and the theft provied him with a living. He was involved in an earlier equally fake effort to promote a media shield law that came up when the left concocted the Joe Wilson ambassador to Gabon and Valerie Plame superspy myth and cried about her "exposure."