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We had access to some material in the book, but we wanted to do our own reporting.
That makes no sense to me.
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Thank you TPM for showing us old people flipping what looks like overcooked meat. Can we can get on to real presidential stuff now?
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But only on the news that fit to print, of course. The aged, gray lady has her standards, you know.
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What the fuck does that mean???
"We had access to some material in the book, but we wanted to do our own reporting.
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Me neither -it’s pure bullshit
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Think the run up to Iraq war.
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“We got called on our bullshit, quick, say something… anything!”
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So what does “exclusive” mean? If they decide a particular ginned-up scandal is crap, can they refrain from publishing it?
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The fact this idiot is being taken seriously is dangerous.
Oh, I present your Liberal Media, a media so liberal they will buy “reports” from some “author” to pursue some sensationalism but which will ultimately be proven false, probably right after the election.
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“We had access to some material in the book, but we wanted to do our own reporting…and Judy Miller will be leading our efforts. She is trying to rehabilitate herself these days, after all.”
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They have access to the same old BS that conservatives have been peddling for the last 20 yrs and they want to put their “liberal” stamp on it so that FOX news and associated morons can quote the “liberal NY times” when they trash the Clintons.
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@paulw: Well, and their record on deciding which ginned-up scandals are crap isn’t exactly stellar. Especially considering how many the Times itself did the ginning-up on.
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This is what I wrote to the Public Editor of the NYT:
Wow, way to be impartial, NYT! Why not just call Hillary a money-grubbing whore on the front page of the paper? What, are you going to print 25M words about this non-scandal the same way you reported on the Whitewater non-scandal, Abe Rosenthal’s pet piece of journalistic malpractice? If you reported on Republican malfeasance – you know, the political party which has been trying to destroy the American middle class since the election of Saint Ronnie in 1980 - as you do on Democratic non-scandals, a Republican wouldn’t get elected in this country for the next 300 years. What are you going to print next, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”? How about a rousing endorsement of Charles Murray’s “The Bell Curve”?
And to put my feelings of frustration in the most polite terms possible, go eat a bag of salted dicks.
I tried to be as civil as possible, but you have to admit that the “salted dicks” admonition was totally warranted. Of course, the NYT will be horrified at such a pedestrian expression of indignation from an unwashed shlub like me, to which I heartily say, “Go fuck yourself!”
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I like this for your language but I think you protest too much.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? You sound like Carolyn Ryan of the NYT. “I doth protest too much” about what?
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And, by the most amazing coincidence, neither did the thousands and thousands and thousands of words they wrote about Whitewater. It was to journalism as “Finnigan’s Wake” is to novels.
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White water redux.
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This is a template that was developed by “Dick” Cheney in the buildup to the War for Halliburton Profits.
VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY [on Meet the Press]: Specifically aluminum tubes. There’s a story in the New York Times this morning — this is, and I want to attribute to the Times. I don’t want to talk about, obviously, specific intelligence sources — but it’s now public that in fact he has been seeking to acquire, and we have been able to intercept and prevent him from acquiring, through this particular channel, the kinds of tubes that are necessary to build a centrifuge.
Cheney neglected to mention, of course, that it was his office that leaked the story to the Times. It is sufficient to point out that it was published in the (liberal) New York Times to establish its bona fides.
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Media Matters has an exhaustive list of the source’s checkered past:
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