Comments on: What Do the NY Times and a 12-Year-Old Have in Common?

By: deguello

deguello — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:59:26 +0000

Twelve year olds as experts in counter insurgency? Sounds typical of a rag that called Stalin an agrarian reformer, Eminem a genius, and Castro a freedom fighter.The NYTimes: toilet paper for puppies in trainig!

By: Crispie

Crispie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:18:32 +0000

Mortimer,

Of course the Times sends someone over there. It’s much easier to get Moqtada al Sadr’s talking points that way. And you’ll take the Times word because they have demonstrated so conclusively their lack of bias. I mean, it’s not like they’ve ever been caught fabricating stories… oh wait…

By: Mortimer

Mortimer — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:43:51 +0000

More NY Times baiting for the fascist warmongers, the idiots who swallow the latest party line on Iraq without question. How many of you brilliant cons figured this all out and have all the answers beforehand? At least the Times actually sends someone over there instead of a bunch of the usual parasitic hacks sniping from their keyboards safe at home. I’ll take the Times story over crap like this pandering trash anydays.

By: Toby Hill

Toby Hill — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:24:03 +0000

Got to hand it to the NY Times, they refuse to disappoint their remaining 100 subscribers. Maybe they could boost their subscriber base if they would report on themselves that they hire former Saddam Military Officers for their articles?

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By: M.E.

M.E. — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:40 +0000

I don’t read the New York Times any more. It reminds me of Soviet Communist Party’s official newspaper “Pravda” (The “Truth”). For the Soviet readers, if “Pravda” wrote “bad”, it meant “good” and vice versa. In the same way should be read the New York Times. It’s very good news from Iraq for a simple reason (and not good for the same reason for philoterrorist NYT): Maliki’s Government has grown strong enough to eliminate Moqtada al Sadr’s “army” of thugs and other Iranians agents ending with anarchy. To have an exact idea of the events see: Faster, Please! The weblog of Michael Ledeen. March 27, 2008. But see above all Victor Davis Hanson’s books about the Western Way of War.

By: muggsie

muggsie — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:56:20 +0000

Yes Wayne and the reporter added that the Sadr Army had been doing so “well” up to that time.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:58:45 +0000

Interestingly, I heard a report on NPR (hey, it’s the only classical music station left in DC) that Sadr had told his forces to stand down and stop fighting. The report indicated complete puzzlement over why he would do so. No consideration was given to the possibility that the ‘Sadr Army’ was getting clobbered by the Iraqi government forces and Sadr was trying to preserve some level of military capability before it got wiped out, even though he has done exactly the same thing in the past for that reason.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:27:28 +0000

Morton,

It’s PR squish. It allows for western politicians to talk about the the problems of Islam without making political enemies at home. Of course, your implication is correct. The problem is not just the would be suicide bombers and preachers of hatred.

As Mark Steyn brilliant wrote this on the subject:
But in this instance the folks wanting to silence others’ songs would seem to be the Muslims — or “radical Muslims,” as we still say, more in hope than conviction. Another reader sent round a mocking e-mail — “Are you man enough to shoot a nun in the back?” — and was promptly rebuked by one of his female friends: “This is a one-off situation you describe and so you can’t suddenly leap in to tar every Muslim with the same brush: It wasn’t a response from the Muslim world, it was the reaction of one person.”…

If, say, I were to shoot a staffer for The Nation in the back in the name of National Review, you would expect at the very minimum my bosses here to suspend the column at least until I’d been acquitted at trial. If, instead of that, Rich Lowry and Kate O’Beirne were marching through the streets chanting “Behead the enemies of National Review!” and William F. Buckley were to issue a statement offering the publishers of The Nation the choice between conversion to conservatism, paying a poll tax to him, or death, and if it were rumored that Rick Brookhiser, John Derbyshire, and dozens of other “moderate” NR writers strongly disagreed with my decision to shoot the Nation guy but didn’t dare say anything, I think the reasonable person would conclude that the problem is more than just one fringe nutter.

By: Morton Doodslag

Morton Doodslag — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:20:31 +0000

Having wondered about the reflexive misuse of “radical”, I failed to note that Mr. McNally’s dissection above of the ongoing disgraceful NYT coverage of Iraq is excellent.