Crack NYT Editorial Team Discovers 8-Month Old Press Release
Even for the New York Times, this is a little odd. Yesterday, in a house editorial, the paper alerted its readers of the latest outrage: "Now Mitt Romney has made [Robert] Bork a chairman of his Justice Advisory Committee."
Now? This was announced in August of last year. Don't bother suffering through the editorial, as there is absolutely nothing new to justify the grey lady's decision to react eight months after the fact. It's a boilerplate attack on Bork -- the only amusing part is the paper's disgust at Bork position that "except when the Constitution expressly says otherwise, the court must defer to the will of the majority." That, of course, is exactly what the NYT and the President have been saying about Obamacare.
So what gives? Did the editorial board just decide that they didn't have any new smears that day, so they dredged up the old press release?
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Jun '10
Re: Crack NYT Editorial Team Discovers 8-Month Old Press Release
That which the Grey Lady views as a badge of shame merely shows that Mitt Romney has enlisted one of our greatest legal minds to his team. He's also a man who suffered the grotesque slings and arrows of the likes of Teddy Kennedy and came out of it with his dignity intact.
Good for Romney.
Must have been a slow smear day.
Edited on April 27, 2012 at 6:31pmJun '10
Re: Crack NYT Editorial Team Discovers 8-Month Old Press Release
Double post.
Edited on April 27, 2012 at 6:31pmJul '10
Re: Crack NYT Editorial Team Discovers 8-Month Old Press Release
The Treyvon Martin case doesn't look like the gold mine it once did. So they're scratching around the bottom of the barrel until a new "racism" incident can be pounced upon.
Re: Crack NYT Editorial Team Discovers 8-Month Old Press Release
Gail Collins has to wring her hands every day about something. It goes with being a liberal.
Re: Crack NYT Editorial Team Discovers 8-Month Old Press Release
Eight months old is one thing. But this is proof that the NYT is living 25 years in the past.
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Tabula: agreed. Of course the editorial defends Bork's lynching, which goes to show that Mollie's exactly right: they dredged up an 8-month old press release to re-fight a 25 year old confirmation battle. And here I was thinking "progressives" were focused on the future.
Jan '11
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I couldn't help myself, so I did read the editorial ... and then, the link to the original editorial in 1987 where they denounced Bork before the vote was taken.
I spewed my coffee when they described Arlen Specter as "the Judiciary Committee's ablest questioner."
What a bubble they live in!
Sep '10
Re: Crack NYT Editorial Team Discovers 8-Month Old Press Release
To progressives, its always the night before: Torquemada, The Spanish Inquisition, Lee Harvey Oswald, various lynchings in the deep south, the Night of the Long Coat Hangers, and the Watts riots.
Most of us have our nightmares during the sleeping hours, but for the progressives, every waking hour is another cherished opportunity to regulate the humor out of every thing and find another orc hidden behind another rose bush.
Apr '11
Re: Crack NYT Editorial Team Discovers 8-Month Old Press Release
At least 54 of her columns have been about Seamus*. I'm guessing she decided she should really write a non-canine hit piece and went back to her archives of material.
*Writing his name without feeling the need to explain who he is, like writing that of Miles Parker Romney, and expecting a decent number of people to recognize Mitt's Great-Grandfather, reminds me that only Sarah Palin has ever experienced so intensive an exploration of her decades old (in Romney's case, sometimes centuries old) family history. Bush eventually got some of it, but I don't recall reading anything that went more than a generation beyond the Presidents, Governors, and Senators directly related to him.
Jul '11
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How long til the Romney affair rumors? The ones no credible agency knows about nor would run. So it starts again.