As we've said 100 times, finding cases of the NY Times shilling right-wing authortarian lies and propaganda is like shooting fish in a barrel...

Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania - soon to be ex-senator Santorum - is nominated for martrydom and/or sainthood by NY Times resident whore David Brooks. As we've written before, Brooks is now sitting in the chair of former Times op-ed columnist WILLIAM SAFIRE, who singlehandedly threw so much journalstic **** at the Clintons that other Republican hacks were able to PILE ON, Abu Grhaib pyramid style, and eventually Tom DeLay's lame-duck Congess impeached the sitting president for a CONSENSUAL AFFAIR - but only after Ken Starr diverted his $70 million - SEVENTY MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS - "independent" investigation from a financial investigation into (literally) assigning DOZENS of FBI agents to INTERROGATE WOMEN about their sex lives, and especially any relations they may have had with President Clinton.

Anyways, David Brooks is now the resident TIMES replacement for Safire, whom (did we mention) had been a lead speechwriter for President Nixon.

At any rate, it's GREAT to hear other writers and critics KEEPING AFTER the Times SERIAL TENDENCY to LIE, MISINFORM, DISTORT, and SHILL right-wing Republican talking points and propaganda.

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Santorum In Memoriam
by Gerald McEntee
10.31.2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-mcentee/santorum-in-memoriam_b_32902.html

David Brooks' obituary for Rick Santorum's Senate career in the Sunday New York Times all but nominated the two-term Pennsylvania senator for political martyrdom. "After Election Day," Brooks wrote, "the underprivileged will probably have lost one of their least cuddly but most effective champions."

I'm not sure what unholy bargain Brooks brokered with his editors to write such blasphemy, but here are a few of Saint Santorum's legislative "accomplishments" that Brooks conveniently omitted.

Santorum voted 12 times against raising the minimum wage, trapping millions of American families in poverty. In fact, just after Santorum sponsored an amendment to deny a wage hike to restaurant workers, executives from Outback Steakhouse, among the amendment's biggest backers, hosted a fundraiser for him. (Santorum flew to the fundraiser on the Wal-Mart corporate jet.)

There are many more examples. He voted against the Family and Medical Leave Act. He introduced legislation to kill the 40-hour workweek. He supported efforts to gut overtime pay protections. And David Brooks thinks Rick Santorum is an "effective champion" of the underprivileged and struggling families?

The right can try to cast Santorum in the martyr role all they want. But Santorum's IMMORAL VOTING RECORD and downright un-Christian rhetoric have lifted the curtain and exposed him as a national embarrassment. And David Brooks [and his LYING editors and publisher at the NY TIMES] aside, voters are tired of Rick's shtick.