The New York Times forgets Clinton’s role
It’s laughable that an editor of this publication claims to be shocked that the “paper of record” would print a phony letter attributed to the mayor of Paris criticizing Caroline Schlossberg’s attempt to be named Hillary’s replacement.
Just prior to this latest example of journalistic malpractice, the New York Times, whose motto is “let’s get Bush one last time,” ran a 5,000-word distortion blaming Bush for the financial crisis while ignoring a wealth of its own reporting on the subject in 1999. Apparently they’re too smart to read their own paper!
In September 1999, the Times noted that “Fannie Mae has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton administration to expand mortgages among low-income people, and has felt pressure to maintain its phenomenal profits.” Also, “In moving into this new area Fannie Mae is taking on much more risk, likely causing trouble in an economic downturn.” Imagine that!
None of this was mentioned in the “get Bush” article, nor was Clinton’s “aggressive deregulation” of the financial-service industry. In fact, Clinton was mentioned only once in passing, while we learned that Bush received $850,000 from mortgage brokers and bankers, but not that the top three recipients of cash from Fannie were all Democrats!
Tony Moschetti
High Point
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Dateline January 4, 2109:
Earth invaded by soldiers from Uranus!
The consciousness of Tony Moschetti (which is stored on a small portion of one of the original Nintendo game systems) writes a scathing LTE to the NY Times (the sole surviving newspaper) blaming the whole mess on Bill Clinton. Tony states that according to the FreeRepublic.com, Ron Paul told Clinton in 1998 that there are "horrible things coming from Uranus" and that Bill Clinton had misunderstood the conversation and therefore did not take the necessary steps to counter it, so like all problems that happened in the 21st century and beyond this problem can be traced directly to Bill Clinton (except of course, for those caused by Hillary).
A technician was dispatched to fix the Nintendo thinking it was a hardware problem determined that it was a software problem where the program had gotten stuck in a feedback loop that no matter what the question was always came back to the same answer. The decision was made to terminate the program but that was stayed by a last second pardon by President Palin.
Posted on January 4, 2009 8:59 AM
Rufus, your response is so very typical of you lunatics on the left. You clowns never actually mention what is in the letter, or the subject of the letter, but merely spew out mindless pap that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Uranus, Ron Paul? I don't recall mentioning either one. Neither did I say that ALL of the problems were attributed to the amoral, pathological lying adulterer who had his law license revoked for lying under oath, nor his long abused, and humiliated wife.
I did mention a previous NY Times article pointing out some facts (we know how you leftist loons hate facts!) contradciting the entire, latest NY Times hit piece. Or the latest phony letter published by the Times. Nothing to say there, Rufus! Where do we find you sickos?
Posted on January 4, 2009 10:14 AM
Is it possible to conduct civil discourse here?
Instead of tit-for-tat derision is it possible to conform to the "golden rule"?
Posted on January 4, 2009 11:16 AM
"Neither did I say that ALL of the problems were attributed to the amoral, pathological lying adulterer who had his law license revoked for lying under oath, nor his long abused, and humiliated wife."
Sorry Tony if I implied that you had an unnatural fixation with Bill & Hill.
It's your fellow Republicans that you should have issue with rather than the NYT & "sickos" such as myself. Wonder why they didn't use this "story" as a major campaign issue last year. Could it be that it isn't a primary cause for our current difficulties and they would look foolish if they tried to make the case that it was? McCain tried it for a day or 2 then dropped it like a hot rock.
RBM,
I always try to be civil, sometimes I get silly but (almost) never personal. And as Tony noted sometimes I don't stick to the subject but that's the sicko in me coming out.
Posted on January 4, 2009 6:53 PM