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ladychatterley -> RE: LA / NY Times Disclosure (6/27/2006 8:35:22 PM)
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The New York Times is NOT a liberal newspaper. The New York Times ridicules anyone that questions free trade, published Judy Miller's rumors based on Chalabai's hallucinations as fact and assumes that capitalism is the best way. The Nation, Mother Jones, The Progressive and The New York Review of Books are all liberal papers. (I'm a liberal, and damn proud of it.) The New York Times is a 'fact based' newspaper. The editorials of the NY Times have a liberal tilt (Rich, Krugman and Herbert, clearly liberal, Dowd, Friedman and Kristof not exactly classifiable although my gut instinct is that Nicholas Kristof is a liberal (Bill Kristof is a whole other can of fish), Brooks and Tierney libretarian to conservative; the unsigned editorials are liberal).
The Wall Street Journal is not a right-wing paper. It has a bias towards the free market and clearly revels in capitalism. But the WSJ's editorials are very, very right wing.
If the Bush administration had done anything to show they cared about the safety of the American people, I might trust them. But when you ignore a presidential daily briefing that said "Bin Ladin Determined to attack inside United States" dismiss the CIA agent with a "you've covered your ass" and then play golf for a month, when you ignore a hurricaine headed toward New Orleans, when you lie us into a war that makes us much less safe, and when you spy on us all through illegal means (Fisa is the law, Bush ignored it--that is illegal!) and attack the gays and kinksters and focus on flag burning to distract from your utter incompetence, then forgive me if I don't give you the benefit of the doubt!
Bush is destroying this country! He is evil. He is mortgaging our grandkids future, had completely destroyed our crediblity and goodwill in the world, has encouraged the rise of Islamic fundamentalism (How on earth are we losing a 'who is right' contest with jihadiists?), selling our economy to Halliburton, ignoring global warming, and seems to be using Noam Chomsky's critique of American power as his playbook! He said it would be easier if it was a dictatorship, and he is doing all he can to take us there. (That is a liberal tirade--when you see stuff like that in the NY Times, outside of the op-ed section, then you can call it a liberal paper. But the entire debate (if you can call it that) in this country has moved so far to the right that Nixon would seem like a Democrat and Eisenhower, who warned us about the military industrial complex, would seem like a commie.)
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