In the USSR's military, there was the military commander and then there was the 'Morale Officer' which is a kind way of saying Communist Party hack. The military commander would make decisions and then would have to run them by the Morale Officer first for approval. That often meant sound military decisions were changed and suborned to stupid party ideology.And by "sees you making the sausage" I mean "has screenshots of the original unbiased reporting and the updated biased reporting side by side.
How is what Peters did to Weisman's article any different? Sound reporting was 'massaged' until it reflected Party Ideology. There is no way anybody can call that revised article anything but propaganda.
Newspaper of record, indeed.
I'm reminded of the great scene in the great film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels where the con man Steve Martin is pleading with the French cop that the woman who swore out the complaint against him was jealous because she'd caught him with another woman. After all, he's French, isn't he? He can understand that? The cop's reply is priceless:
To be with another woman, oui, that is French. To be caught? That is American.The Times wasn't just biased here, it was incompetent.
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Yup.
Although this story has been kicking around for a few days .... the one thing you will notice is the complete lack of coverage in the rest of the MSM.
How come?
Because they ALL use the same playbook.
Crickets…
That’s all I hear, and all I expect to hear about this whole thing. The people that hate Obama think he’s capable of any evil, and so they are unsurprised by this. The people that love him think he can do no wrong, and that this was all the result of a government that is “too big” for one man to run. Their solution, as it were, will likely be to make the government bigger by creating another bureaucracy whose job it is to watch the other bureaucracies to make sure they are being honest (or at least not being obvious about their graft). Of course, in a couple years when THAT bureaucracy gets embroiled in a scandal, they’ll create another one to watch THEM, forgetting the lede: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
http://notboutthing.blogspot.com/2013/05/irs-targeting-presidents-political.html
Me? I’m unsurprised. Obama overtly asked for this when he demonized the tea party in front of the entire nation, time and time again. There was nothing covert about it. When he calls the tea party illegitimate and anti-american, why does he act surprised when the bureaucrats that answer to him treat them as such?
And here, yet again, we’ve caught the New York Times carrying his water, and my guess is that they will see no ill effect for it. AGAIN.
How many times does it need to happen before the Gray Lady is relegated to the junk bins of history as just another joke of journalism?
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