You've GOT to be kidding! Stephen Schlesinger - Harvard, Time - opines that NY whore Times is a "FLAG of PROGRESSIVE THINKING"!

WOW! Mr. Schlesinger's defense, nay COMMENDATION of the New York Times is so over-the-top, so wacky, that we simply must ask "Is Mr. Schlesinger actually that IGNORANT, or is he so blinded by his Northeastern/Harvard/Time/AIPAC bias, that he actually believes his own propaganda?"

Mr. Schlesinger actually COMMENDS the NY Times for "reprimand[ing]...the Bush administration... for Blackwater lawlessness" but a quick glance at the NY Times front page today reveals NO COVERAGE (much less consternation, much less front-page screaming headlines) of the State Department's Inspector General Howard J. "Buzzy" Krongard COMMITTING PERJURY before Congressional Committee, in his on-going efforts at the State Department (in his role as Inspector General charged with INVESTIGATING Blackwater!) to MINIMIZE, WHITEWASH, and COVER UP Blackwater's.... "LAWLESSNESS", to steal Mr. Schlesinger's word.

(here is a TVnewsLies.org clip from our previous post on the perjury and Inspector General whitewash/cover-up)

Howard J. Krongard, US State Department Inspector General lied under oath to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform It seems that federal prosecutors have been looking into allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse in Iraq by Blackwater, USA. And, surprise, surprise, Krongard was on the carpet for interfering with the investigation.

Mr. SCHLESINGER, YOU, SIR, ARE A FOOL if not an outright IDIOT! You actually belive that one, two, or even three editorials buried deep in the editorial section of the Times comprises a COMMITTMENT to "progressive thinking in America"?
QUITE THE OPPOSITE! DESPITE their AKNOWLEDGING that Blackwater is LAWLESS, that the administration's stem-cell policy "IS A FIASCO" perpetrated to appease the administration's reactionary, fundamentalist supporters; and that the Bush-Cheney administration is SUBORNING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE in the Miers/Bolton CONTEMPT and SCORN of Congressional Subpoenaes, the WHORE Times will do EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to KEEP THOSE STORIES _OFF_ of the front page... where they would make a difference!!

In an insightful column a week or two ago, Frank Rich wrote of the "GOOD GERMANS AMONG US", decrying America's complacency with the roggue, lawless Bush administration. Mr. Rich didn't specifically single out his employer in his commentary, even though, of course, the TIMES has been at the epicenter of EVERY Republican outrage and atrocity of the past dozen years, from helping Republicans turn "WHITEWATER" into a "Monica- Did she, or didn't she" IMPEACHMENT, to sneering at Al Gore all through the summer of 2000 while GIVING Texas Governor George W. Bush a FREE PASS for his long record of scandals, including AWOL/Desertion from the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, to the stolen election of 2000, to of course Judith Miller and the Times ENCOURAGAING and ENABLING the LIES TO WAR against Iraq in early 2003. Indeed, Mr. William Safire, long the signature columnist of the Times (and former NIXON SPEECHWRITER and Nixon apologist) was THE FIRST AND MOST VOCAL to call for MASSIVE RETRIBUTION ON FALLUJAH for the ambush and gunning of BLACKWATER MERCENARIES there. Mr. SCHLESINGER, the LEVELLING of Fallujah is in NO SMALL PART the work of William Safire and the New York Times!

Like a "GOOD GERMAN" in World War II, you will take the reports of "Jewish TERRORISTS ("IRAQI INSURGENTS") SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE" as a perfectly valid excuse to wipe an entire town, village or community RIGHT OFF THE MAP.

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Kudos to the New York Times
by (IDIOT!) Stephen Schlesinger
Kudos to the New York Times
Posted November 17, 2007


The Friday, November 16th editorial page of the New York Times demonstrates why this newspaper these days remains the most important organ of opinion in the country. In three hard-hitting editorials, the paper gave expression, in unvarnished, well-argued, and concisely-honed paragraphs, to outrage over the shameful behavior of the Bush Administration in three instances -- White House defiance of Congressional investigations; the Blackwater mess; and the stem cell fiasco.

The first editorial, "In Contempt" slammed the refusal of two of Bush aides, Chief of Staff Josh Bolton and former White House counsel Harriet Miers to respond to congressional subpoenas to testify in the United States attorneys scandal. Their disregard for congress's right to call witnesses was, as the paper said, not only an illegal obstruction in a lawful probe of an abuse of authority by the government, but also a dangerous effort to upset our careful system of checks and balances.

The second editorial, "Prosecuting Blackwater," reprimands the Bush Administration for its continuing failure to impose penalties on the lawless behavior of the Blackwater guards who killed at least 14 Iraqis in an indiscriminate and unjustified shooting spree last September.

Finally "A Stem Cell Achievement" chastizes President Bush for hobbling stem cell research because of the religious right. While the Times has at moments given pause in the past over events like its flawed coverage of the US decision to invade Iraq, its editorial pages continue on most occasions to hold high the flag of progressive thinking in America. Imagine this country without this paper.