Clarice Feldman provides an excellent rationale in support of William Lalor's call for AG Gonzales to indict the New York Times.
I support the call for indictment but I do have reservations concerning doing so prior to the elections. Not so much in that it might hurt Republican's chances to retain control, for I do not consider that issue in doubt, but that it might improve the financial well being of the NYT prior to years end by generating additional readership. Junior Sulzberger's incompetence in business management is destroying the Times at a very good clip and it would be a shame to do anything to slow down the destruction.
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ANYTHING to get more readers for the NYT !!! If he has done wrong, let the indictment go ahead. Even a krazy monkey down under in NEW ZEALAND knows that.
I dunno--I almost hate to give NYTimes the satisfaction of a "NYTimes Law" going on the books. Far better to ostracize the low-down dirty dogs and let 'em go bust in the American marketplace.
I was talking to a friend about this earlier today and he said the Times is doing this so that they can blame Bush when they go broke.
I don't know if it is the right thing to do or not, it almost seems as if that is what they want.
It's just a crying shame for Pinch and his current bunch of pathologically oblivious nowhere-men to so sully a magnificent old American brand. Even if it does have a checkered record (Duranty, et al), the typeface is nice, and the venue in America's City is priceless.
To indict, you must first have a grand jury and there's no time like the present to start..If they bitch we can remind them that they folded for Fitz and they in affect created the precedent..Then we can put Miller on Oprah talking about how the NYT which is mewling for sympathy jettisoned her..etc etc..(Is her Book out yet? Maybe she can call it Victim of the Press Patriarchy )
Clarice,
Can the DoJ empanel a special grand jury specifically dedicated to the matter without also appointing a special prosecutor? If they do go after the NYT I really don't want to see another special prosecutor - just a nice run of the mill regular prosecutor coming to the end of his career.
Dragging them into court allows them to wrap themselves in the first Amendment and the american Flag. I think a boycott of NY Times advertisers is a much better strategy.
This is something I would like to see start picking up steam in the blogsphere. We need to track down their main advertisers and start pressuring them to remove ads from the NYTs.
I like that. I'll participate.
Rick, any prosecutor can empanel a gj..typically it is how all federal criminal cases begin.No special prosecutors again, puh-leeze.
In fact, with so many incidents, the AG might want to set up a special DoJ task force to deal with these matters..
I met a woman from Oregon today while demonstrating against the World "Peace" Forum and she swore, by golly, that the NYT is a mouthpiece of the Bush admin - they held back on some story about WMD - and she would not allow any notion to the contrary to sully her steadfast ears. We're living in crazy years.
'Peers, she's probably convening the coven right now to tell them about you, the fascist hitlerite robot she met today, who complained about the NYTimes being an organ of the hard left, can ya bleeve it.
I'm beginning to long for the pre-telegraph days, when news moved at a horse's pace--and only someone who could tell one end of the horse from the other had the ability to transmit it.
you may be right--it sure worked fine for Toyota, they never have YET had to bring out the Real Ota.
One end of a horse, and the right end of whatever you needed to get past the highwaymen!
Dag got called a fascisti but maybe I was all-too confusing to get the knee-jerk response. It may be, in any case, that New York is like a wild card: all things NYC can be made to fit your personal myth. One English lady who couldn't figure for the life of her why people were picketing a "Peace!" forum cried out at me: "but I love Jewish people! I lived in New York for ten years!" (Hell I probably couldn't last ten weeks there!) Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the people who stopped to talk with me were American Jews and I don't think I convinced any that they were in bad company, what with the shockingly biased program and the Palestinian group using a rock-throwing child as their emblem and all... It makes you wonder if the NYT is in the lead making so many American Jews into devout brothers and sisters of their enemies or rather if the NYT is simply following the crowd deep into its delusion.
...and only someone who could tell one end of the horse from the other had the ability to transmit it.
Dunno. Some horses are plenty smart and can find their own way even when the rider is dressed in motley, sitting bass ackwards, and waving a bladder on a stick. Which is to say there is no way to keep a Times reporter from spreading the news.
So Cantwell is finished?
"if the NYT is simply following the crowd deep into its delusion"
Personally, I think that the most likely scenario. Despicable as it is, I think the NYT and its reporters believe that they are meeting the needs of, what they think, the majority of this country desires. And when placed against the results of the last Presidential election, they are not far off. Treason and sedition never enter into their mind. It is all a "I coulda been a contender" mindset. They just do not understand the concept of "lose", "lost" or better luck next time. "Almost" is good enough for them to cast themselves as Saviour's of America.
The biggest thing they ever built was the monster WWII battleship Yamato, almost as big as our Nimitz class carriers, the largest ships ever. With the US invasion fleet off Okinawa in 1945, the Yamato was sent against it with only enough fuel to get there, not back. She was new, only a few years old. Our carriers planes sank her before she could engage the landings. The Japanese knew the mission was suicde, but sent Yamato out anyway. Sure glad those folks are on our side now.
I never get enough of reading about the Battle of Midway. The way that series of actions unfolded, the sublime sacrificial courage of those fliers out over that open ocean, the luck of the Dauntless squadron arriving on the heels of the sacrifice of Torpedo 8 (the lone survivor of Torpedo 8 watching it all while bobbing in the sea amid the enemy fleet), the winning the battle--and turning the war--by flaming the enemy carriers in a 4 minute dive-bombing attack...well, if you made it up, wrote it in a novel, not a soul would buy it, it's literally too fantastic, too otherworldly.
And I agree--you can see a national character in the sillouettes of its warships (Italians esp).
Oh, I wrote it down--it's on my list. Here's one I'm reading now, a big 700 pg detail monster, "Fire in the Sky--the Air War in the South Pacific" by Eric M. Bergerud (Westview Press). Lots of research. How things looked and felt in 1942-43 at the time--that is, before anyone knew what '44 and '45 held in store. Tough hombres out there at the end of a mighty slim string! USN actually had no right to expect to win in Guadalcanal and the huge sea battles fought in support of it. But they went in anyway, the crazy bastids.
There's a whole section down at Barnes & Noble on the best way to do that!
I need to find a good book on how to stop buying books.
LOL--I volunteer to write the first one: "How to Get Someone Else to Write Nine Books"--
Arrrgh! Anudder book!
I put 'em all on my Amazon list, and Terrye's two recommendations too.
Thanks.
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