Stop defending the New York Times!

[gulliver]

OK, I heard Randi Rhodes defending the NYT Friday, and Salon has an article by Conason. Both defenders take the stance that the NYT was just revealing information that was already previously available. Indeed, we are hearing from the defenders that the White House itself revealed some of that information.

News Flash. Bush and the GOP aren't attacking the NYT because of outrage over the publication of secrets. They are attacking the NYT for election-year publicity. Therefore, our defending the NYT is counter-productive. Bush and his rubber stamp Republican Congress want the issue kept controversial so they can posture and prevaricate.

[Kagemusha]

1. To bury the issue the NY Times would have to go out of business.

So long as it functions as a leading daily, the abuse won't end. Well, it won't end for years after the fact either (see: Bill Clinton)

[RagingInMiami]

2. It's not necessarily defending the New York Times

It's defending the First Amendment.

[gulliver]

4. We should defend the First Amendment by defending Joe Wilson.

Defending the NYT over and over against the scurrilous treason charges just muddies the water and lets the GOP wax strong on national security. Unformtunately, IMO, no one has yet figured out how to really defend the freedom of speech in a way that doesn't actually hurt it.

We should ask how many White House enemies the president has personally ordered attacked when they were just exercising their rights to free speech. If we are going to defend the freedom of the press, let's ask how the Bush Administration's counterfeit press undermines the real press.

[DainBramaged]

3. What newspaper spent more time skewering our last GREAT President

more than any other in the world? And who exposed his affair BEFORE Sludge?

Fuck them, they stopped being on our side when they refused to question Booashe's run up to war.

[Joe Bacon]

5. The WHORESHINGTON POST is just as guilty of sabotaging Clinton

I detest the SCREW YORK TIMES. As far as I'm concerned, they're getting what they deserve. I first turned on the TImes, when It and the Whoreshington Post and the Lies Angeles Times all ganged up to smear Gary Webb's contra cocaine expose. They drove Webb to his death.

Then they lied about Whitewater. They made up lie after lie about Clinton. Now they coddle Bush every which way. Screw all of the Pre$$titute$!