The average citizen cares about the price of fuel for his/her automobile, fuel to heat his/her home and the decreasing buying power of the vastly underpaid worker.

The average citizen is sick to their respective stomach seeing “talking heads” rant and rave about poor government, lack of accountability in government and government and the media in general and reporters like Maureen Down and her employer, the Times in particular.

They, the average citizen trying to keep his/her head above water could give a damn about Maureen Dowd, Judy Miller, the CIA or any of it’s employees being “outed” or the consequences of any behavior to those air-heads associated with whatever people like Maureen Dowd is trying to reveal. What part of “we don’t care” do people like her not understand?

If Keller believes that Miller is his biggest problem at the NYT, he lives in la-la-land. Now they want to convince me that Miller was just some lil “out-of-control” journalist in cahoots with a big bad administration. Dowd? The PURE OUTRAGE at Miller. Have you ever heard such since Miers? I mean they are all OUTRAGED and shocked.

1. NYT let their editorials AND news screw facts. Miller is not standing alone in that position.
2. Repeat after me, there is not any non-partisans today, and
certainly not those vaulted writers at NYT. They vote…..let me guess.
3. Have you heard any “professional journalist” or left blogger defend
Miller in the last 5 years? No? So it didn’t just start?
4. When the NYT did their grand mea culpa on WMDs and “oh why oh why
didn’t we question the big bad war”, they failed to COUNT. Yes, I said
COUNT. They failed to take into consideration the facts that would lead
me not to believe one word of it. I can COUNT. So what am I counting?
How many anti-war articles (psst they like to label a lot of them as
news) they run along side of ole Judys. Yep, she ran One–They ran ??
Ten?? Twenty??? Problem for the non counters.
5. Do you suppose anyone bothered to COUNT the NYT leak stories. No, I am not talking about Miller/Wilson. I am COUNTING other CIA leaks published on front pages of NYT. Where is Judy when you need her?

And after all, this is what its all about, true? Otherwise, why would any paper run that many pictures of Abu Graib, knowing it was hurting America? Why would any paper run that many articles on torture, knowing it was hurting America?

Yes, NYT has problems, but they sure don’t start or stop with Miss Judy.

I could not even find Berger’s name listed as “Berger” during his little misapprobiation of documents stuffed into his socks, taken out of a Secret Place. So how many (COUNT) times have I COUNTED Rove’s name over the last 2 years?

I have a burning question for the NYT—–What happened between Feb 2003 and May 2003? Surely they know. And this one you can’t blame Miller. The MSM and the Huffs and the Lefties are nuts over Miller not spitting and shedding Libby for their enjoyment. They kept their mouths shut because they thought she would come through for them. Eighty-Five days and it was tough, but they kept a lid on it. When she didn’t, she is TOAST. So back to my question for all MSM and Keller, because just think how you can be out in front of this ball, instead of hiding behind Miss Judy.

The question? Who shopped Wilson all over town? Why aren’t you doing the big reporting on Krisoff’s original article published long before Wilson. Why did Wilson change the story between Feb 2003 and Krisoff?

This remains a self-delusional rewriting of history on the part of many on the left. This statement relies primarily on the assumption that *all* pre-Iraq war intelligence and reporting on Saddam’s WMD was generated solely to support the future war by George W Bush, presumably even as Clinton was reigning for double terms.

It was not liberal or not-liberal to believe or not believe the information on WMD; it was only *AFTER* the Iraq war that many on the left picked up the “we never believed it!” line, presumably to better differentiate themselves from the right (a losing strategy at the ballot box, so far). Pre-Bush, most on the left couldn’t care less if Saddam had WMD or not. It is baldly contemporary strategeering, and not historically valid.

And therefore to make this circular argument that pre-Iraq war WMD reporting has any bearing on the liberal status of big media, the New York Times, or even Judy Miller herself, is simply absurd. Save the spin for campaign commercials; these delusions have no place in a serious discussion on these issues.

Please don’t lapse into the below, rather than making some salient statements about your point of view. Some people will show their angst rather than their talking points of view which could be very valuable.

Thanks.

Jorge Says:

October 22nd, 2005 at 7:34 pm
RAVO

You seem to be staggeringly drunk on the kool-aid.

Pray to God to help you see the light and sober up.

How could they tell? Maureen Dowd is hardly the one I’d choose to defend journalism. They’ve all become celebrities, more important than what they report. Is it any wonder that Miller is now the star of “Desperate Journalists”?

You seem to be staggeringly drunk on the kool-aid.

Pray to God to help you see the light and sober up.

Miller’s editors should certainly have put some caveats in her reporting. They didn’t.

For MoMo to be dumping on Miller at this point is interesting as she thereby avoids asking how Ms. Run Amok was allowed to continue. (And, I’ll bet, encouraged.) Because the only thing which scares MoMo more than W is the prospect that the NYT has ceased to be taken seriously as a paper of record.

It is now pretty much a rather large daily talking points memo for the leftish end of American politics. Sadly, as such it is losing readers fast and gradually being marginalized as a source of analysis. It’s sister paper, the Boston Globe is losing readers in droves as people begin to realize that the NYT world view is stuck in 1975.

This is a recipe for disaster: an unwilling public, an unable administration and an unafraid enemy.

Keep it up liberal left media…left to your devices, the good people of this nation would get what only YOU deserve.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/benshapiro/2005/10/19/171895.html

WHAT IS A REPORTER to do? You cultivate your sources, you till fertile ground. You get the good dirt. Then you print the manure. In the case of Judith Miller and the New York Times reporting on government, reporting

Democrats are becoming increasingly shrill in their attacks, growing more desperate by the moment, and being more willing to abuse our legal system for political purposes.

Is it working? Again, as I have been predicting, NO!

Are they successful in manipulating polls to show a lack of support for this administration, our military effort, or our economic successes?

Sure, because this is a game played on their home-field in the liberal media, all at their advantage. But what impact is it having with real mainstream Americans? According to RNC fund-raising efforts, it seems to be even further energizing the team, just as I also predicted.

What Democrats just don’t get is that the American people are sick and tired of back-stabbing politics of personal destruction. They are well aware of the fact that the Democratic Party hasn’t had a single positive original idea in forty years and they are not at all convinced that their life sucks or that it is the federal government’s job to manage people’s personal lives even if it does.

Democrats have a vision for America alright: a socialist vision based on a welfare-state full of beer slurping Big Mac-eating couch potatoes too lazy to care for themselves, and willing to exchange their freedom for a meager federal handout from a handful of socialist Democratic elites hungry for political power.

They have a strategy, too. It is one based on destroying the Republican Party in order to improve their own public image by default.

But it isn’t an American vision and it isn’t a winning strategy. Neither is new and both have been failing for years now. But don’t expect the DNC leaders to come up with anything new or positive anytime soon. They are officially the “glass is half empty” party. They couldn’t muster a positive thought if their life depended on it.

So kick back and continue to enjoy the Howard Dean-led implosion of the DNC. Get some popcorn and a coke. It’s going to get really entertaining in the upcoming election cycle.

http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=17457

Actually, it’s 3 wars, because he’s had to deal with factions at CIA and State who have been actively working (and leaking) against him.

In the meantime. Oil for Food is now tied in ever closer to Saddam AND Al Qaeda…..not that anyone outside of FNC or WSJ seem to care much. Guess they know which war is REALLY important to them…

The Commander in Chief, the Generals, the officers, the troops, the Iraqis and the enemy all understand that the only way we can lose this war is if the people of the United States lose their will to fight it.

Our media seems to be doing everything it can to slant its coverage of the war in an attempt to erode public support and hinder President Bush from reaching his well defined objectives.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=9772