Hypocrites Of The Day
Here’s a hypothetical: The media is in possession of emails between private citizens that proved Bush-Cheney officials were perpetuating falsehoods in order to have legislation passed that they knew would be detrimental to the country, but many of their friends would make billions from.
Now, reality…
With the release of hundreds of emails by
scientistsadvocates of global warming showing obvious and entirely inappropriate collusion by the authors — including attempts to suppress dissent, to punish journals that publish peer-reviewed studies casting doubt on global warming, and to manipulate data to bolster their own arguments — even the New York Times is forced to concede that “the documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists.”
What would the New York Times do?
Apparently the paper’s environmental blog, Dot Earth, is taking a pass on publishing any of the documents and emails that are now circulating. Andrew Revkin, the author of that blog, writes,
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.
This is the position of the New York Times when given the chance to publish sensitive information that might hinder the liberal agenda. Of course, when the choice is between publishing classified information that might endanger the lives of U.S. troops in the field or intelligence programs vital to national security, that information is published without hesitation by the nation’s paper of record. But in this case — the documents were “never intended for the public eye,” so the New York Times will take a pass.
It’s assuring to know the New York Times operates within the boundaries of journalistic ethics, consistency, and integrity.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 am
’statements that were never intended for the public eye’
Of course they were never intended for the public eye. What part of ‘dirty little secret’ does Revkin not understand?
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
So, hypothetically, why did they rush out to publish, out of context, every little bit of Palin’s hacked Yahoo e-mail that might, maybe, have some sort of dirt attached to it? hmmm? I’m waiting…. waiting… …
They’re hypocrites of the highest degree. The truth never comes into play, just driving the bus off the cliff as a means to the end, i.e. a socialist world.
Here’s a great read that discusses, within the confines of political correctness, why reality and the truth never seem to affect the lefties:
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/political-correctness-stifles-free-speech/
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Yup.
Igor
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Can we not all, and have our friends/family etc., join in, have our own fun – Send letters to the editors of every left magazine, newspaper and TV circuit – en masse, demanding proper honest journalism. Probably won’t happen but would let them know that WE know they aren’t being honest.
Here’s another idea, sent to me but I will go ahead and do it. Feel free to join if you’d like:
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Want to have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD this year.
As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world..
Make sure it says “Merry Christmas” on it.
Here’s the address, just don’t be rude or crude. (It’s not the Christian way, you know.)
ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
ha ha ha.. I mean, ho ho ho!
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:40 pm
@Syble – I thing that is a great idea. We might want to include local or nearby regional offices as well.