March 22, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

THE SLIMY NEW YORK TIMES

Right-wingers have frequently claimed that The New York Times is a bastion of liberalism. Harpy Ann Coulter even said that Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, should have bombed The Times instead. But it was The Times, perhaps more than any other major media outlet, that cheered on the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. The Times acted like a stenographer for Bush as they published lie after lie. The Times has also made Al Gore a frequent target. It isn't enough that The Times helped Bush steal the presidency in 2000, but now they're attacking Gore anew because of Gore's quest to deal with global warming. This article by Robert Parry is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

When historians sort out what happened to the United States at the start of the 21st Century, one of the mysteries may be why the national press corps ganged up like school-yard bullies against a well-qualified Democratic presidential candidate while giving his dimwitted Republican opponent virtually a free pass.

How could major news organizations, like The New York Times and The Washington Post, have behaved so irresponsibly as to spread falsehoods and exaggerations to tear down then-Vice President Al Gore – ironically while the newspapers were berating him for supposedly lying and exaggerating?

In a modern information age, these historians might ask, how could an apocryphal quote like Gore claiming to have “invented the Internet” been allowed to define a leading political figure much as the made-up quote “let them eat cake” was exploited by French propagandists to undermine Marie Antoinette two centuries earlier?

Why did the U.S. news media continue ridiculing Gore in 2002 when he was one of the most prominent Americans to warn that George W. Bush’s radical policy of preemptive war was leading the nation into a disaster in Iraq?