New York Times sooooo wrong about North Korea (Editorial from Oct. 1994)

The Corner (National Review Online) ^ | October 1994 | Editorial Board

[Williams]

The whole thing was idiotic from the start. We had to give N. Korea billions of $$ and NUCLEAR REACTORS so they would'nt (it turns out actually they still would) make nuclear weapons to attack us with??? What kind of crazy precedent was that??

[r9etb]

They deserve a keel-hauling!

Think before you sentence, tex. Consider: keelhauling drags a person across the barnacled bottom of a ship. This scrapes significant amounts of flesh off the haulee, most of which either sticks to the hull, of floats off in little hunks.

You don't really want to be surrounded by little floating hunks of Clinton or Carter, do you?

[seamus]

Don't hold your breath. The Washington Times story on this quoted Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association and a supporter of Clinton's naive 1994 accord with North Korea. Here's his take:

"Based on what little we know, it's very unclear whether the evidence presented by the Bush administration really does constitute a breach by North Korea of the agreement. If there is a new crisis regarding North Korea's nuclear ambitions, the Bush administration bears a heavy responsibility to try and resolve it."

In other words, like Baghdad Bonior and Jihad Jim McDermott, we'll take the tyrant's word over that of our president. And if North Korea did breach the accord, the Bushies pushed them to do it. It's all Bush's fault, and he'd better fix it.

I wish I could think of a stronger word than chutzpah withoug using profanity.

[texson66]

You don't really want to be surrounded by little floating hunks of Clinton or Carter, do you?

We are already surrounded (in MD) with little hunks of Clinton or Carter floating around us: they are called DEMONRATIC voters!

[weegee]

Another nominee for the "Peace in our time" Chamberlain award.

[MrNeutron1962]

Actually, DU’s big hypocritical tent collapsed last night, when Skinner, the DU ‘Owner’ decreed that anyone advocating not voting for Democrats this November would be banned from the site. He then proceeded to ban many long time posters, in the name of saving the demoratic party, and the US from Republican Destruction. They are now all crying about it, and the greens are wetting themselves.

The Dummy-cratic Underground is now guilty of the greatest sin they charge us with, self-serving hypocrisy in action, it is a thing of beauty to behold.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...Reassuring the North paid off in the end...

Clinton seemed "reassuring" when faced with any tough choice. He just took the path of least resistance as determined by public opinion polls, and the NY Times and the rest of his enablers remained on their collective knees ready and willing to nurse his ----- on demand.

[Callahan]

I'm trying to figure out how the NYT is going to respond to this. My guess is the lead ed will be something like "Sadly North Korea betrayed our trust. However it is up to President Bush not to betray our trust by politicizing this conflict.

[newsperson999]

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[seamus]

Exactly. And they'll throw in how Bush's "irresponsible talk" of North Korea as part of an "axis of evil" pushed them to defy the wonderful accord negotiated by the wise and peaceful William Jefferson Clinton.

No matter what, the editorial will be worthy of an all-caps BARF ALERT!!

[walkingdead]

Has anyone copied this and sent it to NYT? I'm really curious to see what they have to say about this..... if anything. Commie rat bstrds!

[backhoe]

Wonder if they ever read these?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/771000/posts

The Atomic Genie- what we have about North Korea's Nuclear program
various FR posts | 10-17-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

"Here is a partial listing of what we have on Free Republic regarding North Korea & Nukes... "

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Way to go, Seamus! I'm sure you're right about the NY Times will never revisit this little bit of their illustrious history. Facts are inconvenient at times.

I was paying close attention to the NY Times coverage back in the fall of 1994 -- my son was righting a paper for a class in his senior year in high school on bias in the media. He was tracking the NY Times coverage of the fall election: tracking the headlines and coverage that appeared on the front page above the fold, below the fold and then buried inside the front section. We saved every issue of the NY Times that entire fall and kept constant oversight of their coverage. After the great GOP Victory in all branches (takeover of the House, Senate, vast majority of Governorships) that fall, based in large measure on the Contract With America and Nationalizing of the Election: we noted that NOT ONCE was there a news report on the Contract With America anywhere in the front section of the NY Times that fall -- either before the election or even following it. There were reports on the "Electorate's temper-tantrum" and other stories rationalizing the Demos gigantic collapse -- otherwise it was a complete whitewash.

Just like in Orwell's 1984: where the news media is controlled by the government (Clinton Administration then) and inconvenient facts are dumped into the "Memory Hole."

Thanks for posting...

[seamus]

I'd bet that, as usual, we FReepers beat them to the punch.

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[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

From our own "Backhoe" here at FR.

Go look at this link for the TRUTH about N. Korea. Dating back to the late 90's btw!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/770875/posts?page=55#55

[91B]

Great find-Freepers are the world's greatest at rooting out the truth and exposing lefty idiocy.

[NormsRevenge]

BUMP

[lepton]

I was paying close attention to the NY Times coverage back in the fall of 1994 -- my son was righting a paper for a class in his senior year in high school on bias in the media. He was tracking the NY Times coverage of the fall election: tracking the headlines and coverage that appeared on the front page above the fold, below the fold and then buried inside the front section.

A similar project of mine led to interesting results on another issue: relative criminality. I tracked all accusations of criminality by a government official in the newspapers, and watched to see how it turned out. I found that Republicans were 3 times as likely to be accused of wrongdoing, but that Dems were nearly three times as likely to actually have done wrongdoing - leaving a nearly 9:1 discrepancy between reporting and reality.

[philman_36]

You don't really want to be surrounded by little floating hunks of Clinton or Carter, do you?
There be sharks in the waters!