Calling Out the Times
Investors Business Daily has a piece about the New York Times. And they're certainly on the right track -- at least in my opinion.
Here are a couple of excerpts:
The real scandal of the eavesdropping story is not the delay of publication at the behest of the White House, but that the Times has undermined the war on terrorism.
Well, okay, you read it first here.
Commitment to American interests has long been in question at the Times.
As was noted here.
And The Times had a terrible year. As noted here.
Here are a couple of excerpts:
The real scandal of the eavesdropping story is not the delay of publication at the behest of the White House, but that the Times has undermined the war on terrorism.
Well, okay, you read it first here.
Commitment to American interests has long been in question at the Times.
As was noted here.
And The Times had a terrible year. As noted here.
posted by LadybugUSA at 5:22 PM
4 Comments:
Carol approvingly quotes Investors Business Daily for writing, "The real scandal of the eavesdropping story is not the delay of publication at the behest of the White House, but that the Times has undermined the war on terrorism."
So I will quote approvingly from Atrios who asked, "Can anyone - anywhere - explain, just a little bit - just one time - how 'national security has been damaged' by revelations that the Administration was eavesdropping without FISA-required warrants and judicial oversight rather than with them?"
To make it more topical replace the phrase "national security has been damaged" with IBD's preferred "undermined the war on terrorism."
C'mon Carol, Bachbone, Greg, Dave M., Stackja1945, it's all teed up for you. Heck, post on Eschaton, and you'll get a much larger readership than you ever will here.
When an institution like the New York Times has been respected as an authoritative voice in society for so long, it becomes almost inconceivable that it could fall on hard times.
The magnitude of the shift in the public's view of the main stream media cannot be overstated. The choke hold the left has had on the public's sources of information has been nearly invincible for far too long.
But that choke hold is being broken. The NYT and the MSM are finally being seen by the general public for the left wing propaganda machines they truly are. No longer can the NYT realistically claim to be the "newspaper of record". The majority of Americans now know it is simply the largest, most influential left wing propaganda machine in America.
And this "seeing the man behind the curtain" could not have happened without talk radio and the internet. Thank God for the freedom of expression that is just now breaking free from the oppressive grip of the monopolistic left wing main stream media!
Has the NSA leak damaged America's efforts to defeat our enemies during a time of war?
That's a good question. It's a valuable question. It's a question that has to be asked.
The answer to this question determines whether this is simply more of the same old Washington insider political gaming or if this is truly actionable criminal - even treasonous - behavior.
Who am I to answer the question? Nobody. I don't have any real insight. I only have opinion from a truly laymen's point of view.
But perhaps Rep. Jane Harman, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has some insight to the answer to this very important question. She said on December 21st:
"As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities."
Greg, the quote you have from Jane Harman continued...
"Like many Americans, I am deeply concerned by reports that this program in fact goes far beyond the measures to target Al Qaeda about which I was briefed." [Cite]
That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement to me. (I'm guessing you got the Harman misquote from FOX, right Greg?)
I'm also guessing the "far beyond" corresponds to the warrantless aspect. After all Jane Harman was a co-signer of a letter to Dennis Hastert which states (in part), "Regardless of whether that is true, we believe that the President’s statements on the 17th, and the justifiable concern of the American people over the allegations in the Times article, require the House of Representatives to take steps immediately to conduct hearings on the scope of Presidential power in the area of electronic surveillance."
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