Michael Falcone. Anyone care to make a count of the numerous ways this front-page New York Times article is biased and stupid?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
My guess is this Kathleen Hall Jamieson fool loves Cokie Roberts and needs an Island vacation.
This is a behavior of DC punditry is to “talk about other people” using such GOP style attacks while making them yourself with your kneecapping comments but cleverly blaming “others” for the issue.
McCain wears 500 dollar shoes, owns 10 homes and flies around in his own 12mil jet but Obama is the “elitist?” Pathetic. Thank GOD the New York Times is liberal and I can only imagine if it wasn’t!
If you will allow me a moment of self-indulgence…
Part of my job description as a blogger is to read dreck like that and then figure out the best way to explain everything that is wrong with it.
You can see the job before you as your read it. It’s really a Sisyphusian job, because there is no end to it and you never feel like you’ve really accomplished anything when you are done.
But every once in a while a column comes along that is SO bad that it outstrips my endurance and I just don’t have the energy for it. That’s when I ask you, dear readers, to do my job for me. This is one of those of times.
And sometimes the article is so ridiculous on its face you know just can ignore it and go back to knowing you do an infinitely better job for much less money.
Let’s not be running down $500 shoes. I wear $500 shoes. McCain wears 1500 dollar shoes.
Wow, I can hardly comprehend $50 shoes!
If that had been McCain on vacation in Hawaii, there is no doubt that the NY Times would have portrayed him as a good family man doing the decent thing and taking a break from politics to spend time with his kids. I’m surprised the Times didn’t Photoshop those snow cones and substitute watermelons.
Beating McCain is the easy part. Fighting against the biased, corrupt, and incompetent corporate media is Obama’s real challenge. That’s where the real fight is going to take place in this campaign.
Did it really make the front page? At the bottom it says “A version of this article appeared in print on August 15, 2008, on page A15 of the New York edition.” Ridiculous if it did. Well, ridiculous regardless.
It probably only appears on the front-page in the web edition.
the media has Obama on the defensive…their whiteness is showing. I say that because McCain lies and presumptuousness goes unchallenged – like sending Lieberman Graham to Georgia. Just imagine Obama upstaging Bush?
Gotta say the dude looks cool, focused on enjoying his ice cream and his family. You wouldn’t thinks he’s anywhere near a campaign even for dog catcher.
Obama has a plan to go for the gold and will not allow himself to be distracted by hyper mediaphiles in a festival of juvenilia. Ask Phelps how that works, tuning out the noise.
The most horrible thing about it the NYT’s Georgian bias. Why would it be tacitly endorsing the view that the separatists are BAD and Georgia is GOOD and Obama is BAD for not saying Georgia is GOOD? Unless…
Nah, the NYT couldn’t possible be beholden to oil interests.
Nowhere in the NYT will you find the following:
1.Georgia is a US-Israeli client state.
2.Georgia unleashed violence on the S.Ossetian civilians using weapons provided by US/Israel and training provided by Israelis.
3.The aim of this terror campaign against the S.Ossetian people,as in the usual Israeli M.O. is ethnic cleansing of the S.Ossetians.By driving the S.Ossetians Northward,the Georgians are implementing a Georgia for Georgians policy.
4.No one appears to state the obvious: This magnificent little war is designed to revive the all-but-dead campain of McCrypt.
5.No one would say a thing about where Karl Rove and Condi Rice were before the outbreak of hostilities.Karl was vacationing in the Crimea (talk of an “exotic” location!) and Condi was buying shoes in Tbilisi.
True to his pedigree as a NYT reporter, Falcone assumes the following:When the US uses overwhelming force,as in Iraq, it is good.When the Russians use the same tactics in their own backyard it is bad.No one is allowed to do anything that promotes their self interest.Ony the US is allowed to do so.
This is another article that sheds light on the art of not seeing and not asking any questions.
Georgia is an Israeli client so it’s hard for NYT to print the truth of the matter. Both were enablers of pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, a precedent for Russia…except that Russia has not displayed shock and awe in Georgia.
Israelis are masterful at disinformation. Masterful controllers of the media.
Shrillsspies found in the most unlikely places.Who’d have thought Julia Childs was a spy?
Oh, good grief!
…he emerged from his beachfront rental home to condemn Russia’s escalation, in a way that seemed timed for the evening television news.
Wooooww! That’s sooooo bad of Obama! I mean, it’s not like any other politician in all of American history has ever timed his announcements for maximum media exposure. Bad Obama! tsk, tsk, tsk!
I guess it was the early line about McCain showing his foreign policy credentials. It’s sort of like a dementia patient’s trousers fall to his ankles without him noticing, he trips and falls, and the NYTimes comments not only on his fine dance steps but his sharp new outfit.
The article failed to mention that McCain gained his fluency about Georgia from Wikipedia.
McCain loses no opportunity to emphasize his backing of Bush policies.
Bush policies are less popular day by day.
Why oughtn’t Obama take some time off while McCain champions Bush?
Why does the spellcheck on this site tag Obama?
McSame has taken just about every weekend off, was basically chillin’ until June, but Obama can’t take a week off? Whatever.
And of course, John McCain isn’t presumptuous or anything, calling for more war. Just sayin’…!!!
The stupid: it burns, it burns!