Running for Cover

Another NYTimes disclosure so powerful that not even the Times itself can keep straight whose side we were on.

The Times' big scoop was that the SWIFT program was highly secret and that the American people needed to know about it. Now they're claiming it wasn't even really news and that the terrorists all knew about it. The American people don't seem to feel that they needed to know either, by about two to one. Nope, no anti-Bush bias here!

For a savvy news organization, they're pretty stupid. If they'd read Byron York's The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, they'd have been able to see that following the current nutcases calling the shots on the left, they'd end up in a ditch. They still maintain that the Democrats are going to retake Congress, but that would almost guarantee impeachment hearings against Bush that would hurt them more than the Clinton impeachment hurt Republicans. After all, Clinton did what he was accused of. Most people opposed the impeachment because they didn't want to talk about the sordid details contained in the Starr Report. Are they really going to want to punish Bush when the war is winding down and appears to have played out just as he said it would? The House, being full of furious lefties, might push through a bill of impeachment but it would end in sound and fury signifying nothing, like Clinton's trial did, a tale told by John Conyers.

What is it that keeps driving these people down dead ends that only disgust the voters?

Returning to the NYTimes, I was wondering this afternoon why so many reporters seem so willing to fall on their swords rather than acknowledge its left wing bias. Then I remembered how surprised I was when I first subscribed to the Wall Street Journal for the first time, and realized how many of the interesting stories I'd heard on NPR had come from the WSJ originally. It wasn't long before I discovered that our independent, free media get their lead on what stories are "news" from a few big Eastern newspapers. Between that and the news services, there just isn't all that much free, new or independent in the news media. It kind of ticked me off to realize that all these assurances about defending the peoples' right to know and holding government accountable and speaking truth to power were covering an industry marching in lockstep down the paths defined by the Times and WaPo. That's fraud in my book. And the reliance on cozy relationships with leakers is biased and lazy, and now has crossed into violations of national security laws.

The New York Times isn't even fit to burn, let alone read.