NY TIMES is a sovereign/autocratic state with its own, uniformly & grossly opportunistic and cynical rules & policies, and the Sago tragedy is just another illustration of this fact.
I’ll remind you here NYT’s latest (a few days ago): you remember NYT huffing and puffing in the Valerie Plame affaire – mighty high-minded moralistic stuff, with much talk about the importance of confidentiality in CIA work, national interests, of why outing Valerie Plame was such a criminal & irresponsible act placing one’s career and the national safety at risk, act, etc., etc.
NY Times did 27 stories on Plame, and countless other on Liddy and Cheney, and of course the righteous indignation was always there (Plame’s name was leaked by Armitage, a Department of State guy, and he didn’t do it as a favor to the Bush administration).

And all the indignation regarding the outing of a CIA operatives vanished a few days ago when they themselves named Deuce Martinez, the interrogator who questioned Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other Al Qaeda prisoners – and mind this, Valerie Plame was never covered by the CIA confidentiality status while Deuce Martinez WAS (not anymore, courtesy to NY Times).
Stop buying New York Times!

Morrow:
- Your contentions must be why fatalities fell in the previous 4 years, injuries have kept falling, and are way down from the “glory days” of the 1990s, even after considering reductions in number of mines and miners. (/sarc). The NYT sent itself down the shaft on this one.
- My original post in Jan. 2006 said that if the Sago operators were out of line, the book should be thrown at ‘em. Your failure to note that makes your comment a cheap shot.

Javelin II:
- The post to which you refer was speculation, which is allowed, last time I checked, and which you of course misrepresented above. All of Limbaugh’s pics were in B/W, which is yet another misrepresentation. And you also missed how CNN and NYT made Saddam Hussein look like such a great guy when he got his just desserts, which it yet another misrepresentation. Can’t you get anything right?

Keep on firing blanks, guys.

“After at Least Six Years, Google Abandons Stars and Stripes in July 4 Home-Page Design”
Apparently Google went from Stars and Stripes logo to just a red white and blue logo based on their support for Obama because Obama doesn’t wear a flag pin. And the NY Times put a black and white picture of Rush on their magazine, which is part of the leftist conspiracy to destroy America and the flag according to this perceptive blogger.

And someone who writes juvenile right wing dreck like that is attacking someone else’s credibility and some people here are taking this trash seriously? Hypocrite and moron are too weak terms for this.

“The mine, with more than 270 safety citations in the last two years, is the latest example of how workers’ risks are balanced against company profits in an industry with pervasive political clout and patronage inroads in government regulatory agencies. Many of the Sago citations were serious enough to potentially set off accidental explosions and shaft collapses, and more than a dozen involved violations that mine operators knew about but failed to correct, according to government records.

Sadly, in the way mines are often run, the $24,000 in fines paid by the Sago managers last year constituted little more than the cost of doing business. In the Appalachian routine, miners balking at risky conditions down below can quickly forfeit their livelihood if they have no union protection.
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Mr. Blumer is a two bit Bushbot who churns out cheap out dated trash like this to pander to the little minds here who think the NY Times is their mortal enemy. Keep it up Tom, but check yourself. This is really sending the MSM down the river!

All the news thats fit to print? More like “make all the news fit the agenda”.