I Want to Piss in Bill Keller's Gas Tank
This scares the shit out of me.
Why in the bloody hell would the New York Times, in spite of the protests of several top officials in the White House, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department and the CIA, print this freakin' story about the banking record inqury. I know its old news today, but DAMN.
What was Bill Keller thinking giving the stamp of approval for that to run? Here's a valid question/scenario that I hope you'll respond to:
If Bill Keller was the editor of the New York Times in May of 1944, and discovered that we had decieved the American people (which we did), the British (which we did) and the rest of the god-damned world (which we did) by falsifying the strength of our invasion force poised to strike from Britain, would he have printed the story for the sake of 'potential abuses' of a programme designed to inaccurately portray our military strength?
I hate to admit that that smug bastard by the name of Bill O'Reilly is right about something, but damnit, he hit the nail on the head when he said:
"The New York Times' editorial staff's contempt for the Bush Administration has become more influential in their decision-making process than the security of the United States of America."
And he is 100% freakin' correct, folks. This whole episode of Bush-hating makes me want to piss in Bill Keller's gas tank. I'm pissed off that he gave O'Reilly the chance to be 100% controversial and correct. What really has me freaked out is his desire to trapse every 'secret programme' used under authority of the Patriot Act across the pages of the NYT as another erosion of our Liberty engineered by the Bush Administration.
Mr. Keller is clearly more concerned about the freedom of the press than he is about the security of the nation. To be reasonable, I have to admit that he should be. I happen to agree with the familiar, but no less relevant, statement that our founding fathers envisioned a free and independent press VITAL to holding sway over government amassing overbearing power. It behooves us to have a truly independent voice of objective criticism looming over those that would cast our liberty aside.
However that still begs the earlier question to be asked...when does it go beyond the line? I wonder if Bill Keller was in New York on 9/11/2001. I was. I haven't forgotten how that felt. I wonder if Mr. Keller believes that we're in a war or not. I wonder if he believes that the 'terrorists' would be reasonable negotiation parners.
The recent trend at 'creating' news rather than 'reporting' news has run amok. Frankly I would be standing up and applauding the New York Times if they had revealed a programme that was illegal, or that violated a US Citizen's civil rights. Dissapointingly, by the Times' own admission, there was no illegality in this programme.
Yes it was secret. But, there are 1000's of secret programmes in play every damn day in the intelligence community that are 100% legitimate.
Do we want the President (GOP or not) ever having control of the media? HELL NO.
Do we want the Congress (GOP majority or not) ever having control of the media? HELL NO.
Do we want the media (NY Times or not) to use their better judgement more often? HELL YES!!
I am sick and tired of people (and many of them being in positions of media & politic power) that hate George W. Bush more than they love their country.
Maybe we have turned the final corner on the road into oblivion.
Why in the bloody hell would the New York Times, in spite of the protests of several top officials in the White House, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department and the CIA, print this freakin' story about the banking record inqury. I know its old news today, but DAMN.
What was Bill Keller thinking giving the stamp of approval for that to run? Here's a valid question/scenario that I hope you'll respond to:
If Bill Keller was the editor of the New York Times in May of 1944, and discovered that we had decieved the American people (which we did), the British (which we did) and the rest of the god-damned world (which we did) by falsifying the strength of our invasion force poised to strike from Britain, would he have printed the story for the sake of 'potential abuses' of a programme designed to inaccurately portray our military strength?
I hate to admit that that smug bastard by the name of Bill O'Reilly is right about something, but damnit, he hit the nail on the head when he said:
"The New York Times' editorial staff's contempt for the Bush Administration has become more influential in their decision-making process than the security of the United States of America."
And he is 100% freakin' correct, folks. This whole episode of Bush-hating makes me want to piss in Bill Keller's gas tank. I'm pissed off that he gave O'Reilly the chance to be 100% controversial and correct. What really has me freaked out is his desire to trapse every 'secret programme' used under authority of the Patriot Act across the pages of the NYT as another erosion of our Liberty engineered by the Bush Administration.
Mr. Keller is clearly more concerned about the freedom of the press than he is about the security of the nation. To be reasonable, I have to admit that he should be. I happen to agree with the familiar, but no less relevant, statement that our founding fathers envisioned a free and independent press VITAL to holding sway over government amassing overbearing power. It behooves us to have a truly independent voice of objective criticism looming over those that would cast our liberty aside.
However that still begs the earlier question to be asked...when does it go beyond the line? I wonder if Bill Keller was in New York on 9/11/2001. I was. I haven't forgotten how that felt. I wonder if Mr. Keller believes that we're in a war or not. I wonder if he believes that the 'terrorists' would be reasonable negotiation parners.
The recent trend at 'creating' news rather than 'reporting' news has run amok. Frankly I would be standing up and applauding the New York Times if they had revealed a programme that was illegal, or that violated a US Citizen's civil rights. Dissapointingly, by the Times' own admission, there was no illegality in this programme.
Yes it was secret. But, there are 1000's of secret programmes in play every damn day in the intelligence community that are 100% legitimate.
Do we want the President (GOP or not) ever having control of the media? HELL NO.
Do we want the Congress (GOP majority or not) ever having control of the media? HELL NO.
Do we want the media (NY Times or not) to use their better judgement more often? HELL YES!!
I am sick and tired of people (and many of them being in positions of media & politic power) that hate George W. Bush more than they love their country.
Maybe we have turned the final corner on the road into oblivion.
posted by oldman71 at 22:57
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