Monday, June 22, 2009

So the NYTimes CAN keep a secret!

Wanted to share the best part -- posts about the NY Times and their moral standard or lack thereof:

It has been revealed that one of the reporters for the NY Times was kidnapped seven months ago in Afghanistan. Apparently, the NY Times and all their buddies managed to keep the incident quiet because they feared for the man’s life. It was the only right thing to do, according to the report.
Which makes me wonder how their guy, a mother’s son, is more important than all of the other mother’s sons in the military that the NY Times worked hard to put in danger? Isn’t the news the news? Obviously not. More obvious is that the NY Times considers their people “better” than the kids of flyover America.
We can presume that an appeal for secrecy on national security grounds by the Obama administration would be given much greater consideration than an appeal by the Bush administration. This is, after all, the Times

I don’t think there were any constitutional issues involved in escaping from the Taliban the way their definitely were with the everyone but al Qaeda surveillence KGB op

Read the NYT explanation/editorial here: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/70801

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