Holy Moly!
Oct. 17th, 2004 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWho said this:
The New York Times. Not some pundit, not some clown in the letters page, this is the express position of the editorial staff. This is the official statement of the Times, their editorial policy regarding the mendacity, malevolence, incompetence and disconnect from reality that is the Administration of the United States under George W. Bush.
The president who lost the popular vote got a real mandate on Sept. 11, 2001. With the grieving country united behind him, Mr. Bush had an unparalleled opportunity to ask for almost any shared sacrifice. The only limit was his imagination.
He asked for another tax cut and the war against Iraq.
... Along with the invasion of Afghanistan, which had near unanimous international and domestic support, Mr. Bush and his attorney general put in place a strategy for a domestic antiterror war that had all the hallmarks of the administration's normal method of doing business: a Nixonian obsession with secrecy, disrespect for civil liberties and inept management.
... Mr. Ashcroft appeared on TV time and again to announce sensational arrests of people who turned out to be either innocent, harmless braggarts or extremely low-level sympathizers of Osama bin Laden who, while perhaps wishing to do something terrible, lacked the means. The Justice Department cannot claim one major successful terrorism prosecution, and has squandered much of the trust and patience the American people freely gave in 2001. Other nations, perceiving that the vast bulk of the prisoners held for so long at Guantánamo Bay came from the same line of ineffectual incompetents or unlucky innocents, and seeing the awful photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, were shocked that the nation that was supposed to be setting the world standard for human rights could behave that way.
... The Bush White House has always given us the worst aspects of the American right without any of the advantages. We get the radical goals but not the efficient management. The Department of Education's handling of the No Child Left Behind Act has been heavily politicized and inept. The Department of Homeland Security is famous for its useless alerts and its inability to distribute antiterrorism aid according to actual threats. Without providing enough troops to properly secure Iraq, the administration has managed to so strain the resources of our armed forces that the nation is unprepared to respond to a crisis anywhere else in the world.
... We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course.
The New York Times. Not some pundit, not some clown in the letters page, this is the express position of the editorial staff. This is the official statement of the Times, their editorial policy regarding the mendacity, malevolence, incompetence and disconnect from reality that is the Administration of the United States under George W. Bush.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-10-17 05:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-17 09:07 am (UTC)Linkage?
Date: 2004-10-18 07:37 am (UTC)Thanks for pointing it out!
Re: Linkage?
Date: 2004-10-18 06:04 pm (UTC)Registration required, but there are ways around that.
--
Yr friendly neighborhood know-it-all
poor
Date: 2004-10-20 03:40 pm (UTC)Which is completely NOT what journalism is. Typical of the NYT. Not surprising. Stop reading this trash and get on with your lives.
Re: poor
Date: 2004-10-20 04:16 pm (UTC)The purpose of an editorial page is to reveal the bias and opinions of the owners and editors of the newspaper, and has no other purpose. Completely unbiased journalism is pure fantasy; nobody has ever practiced it. I'm much happier with the paper being out in the open with its opinions.
Re: poor
Date: 2004-10-21 11:36 am (UTC)Reporting the facts without bias or opinion. ::rolls eyes::
"Completely unbiased journalism is pure fantasy; nobody has ever practiced it. "
Like FNC reports both sides of the story so you can make a decision on your own? Maybe you should take a look at the programming sometime...
"I'm much happier with the paper being out in the open with its opinions."
Then you favor opinionated news. End of story.
Re: poor
Date: 2004-11-06 03:50 am (UTC)Hell, given today's media, you should be glad that it was on the editorial page. That is journalism. They put the opinions where they belong, which is far different from most media outlets, like FOX News, which deliver similar opinions as the main story.