Monday, September 9, 2019

The New York Times is not above criticism

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That's Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Jeff Bezos' Nightmare."

Okay, I'm about to highlight from a piece at The Hill by Madison Gesiotto.

Who?

She's on the advisory board of Donald Trump's election campaign.

I don't care about that.  I care about the argument she's making in the piece:


The people who have made an industry out of destroying ordinary people’s lives over old social media posts and out-of-context comments are very upset that it’s happening to them. The New York Times, clearly worried by the recent exposure of blatantly anti-Semitic tweets posted by one of its reporters, and clearly worried that even more embarassing material is in reserve, tried to stop the hemorrhaging with a rambling article demonizing the independent journalists who uncovered the tweets.
In fact, much of the liberal media sphere went into panic mode, vehemently declaring that this particular exercise of the First Amendment is actually an attack on the First Amendment. The reason why liberal editors are so distraught that independent conservative journalists are publishing evidence of the racist, anti-Semitic, and otherwise vile sentiments expressed by their supposedly “objective” employees comes down — as it usually does — to power.
Many journalists are in the profession not to inform the public, but to gain the power to destroy people who question them — and they don’t like those tactics being turned against them. “[U]sing journalistic techniques to target journalists and news organizations ... is fundamentally different from the well-established role of the news media in scrutinizing people in positions of power,” the Times wrote in its article — which was of course labeled “news,” not “opinion.”
The newspaper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, added that “The political operatives behind this campaign will argue that they are ‘reporting’ on news organizations in the same way that news organizations report on elected officials and other public figures,” but he roundly rejected that claim, insisting that his antagonists are trying to “manipulate the facts for political gain.”
To their credit, not everyone in the elite media world is buying it. Erik Wemple of The Washington Post and Jack Shafer of Politico both wrote rebukes of The Times’s indignation. Neither is a conservative “political operative,” but both found Sulzberger’s statement hypocritical and incongruent with The Times’s own reporting on this story. As Wemple put it, “For decades now, representatives of the mainstream media have answered conservative critiques by imploring: Judge us by the work we produce, not by the fact that more than 90 percent of us are liberal/Democratic. Mainstreamers cannot have it both ways.”

 She's exactly right.

The paper cannot hide behind an imaginary wall.  They are not above criticism and they certainly should be able to handle having the tables turned on them.

But they've always been cry babies.  Why?  Because their operation cannot stand up to real examination.  It can't take exposure because there's so much wrong with it.

Gore Vidal had that paper's number and knew what they were up to.

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Monday, September 9, 2019.  The Glenn Kesslers of the world will always make apologies for Joe Biden and always ignore the destruction of Iraq.


Starting in the US where the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues.  Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS went up a few hours ago and is entitled "Jeff Bezos' Nightmare."






  1.  11 hours ago
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are the only Democratic presidential contenders polling in double-digits, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll released Sunday
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That's one poll.  This morning, there's another.  Anthonay Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Kabir Khanna and Fred Backus (CBS NEWS) note:

 But Warren has made strong gains on electability. Among those considering supporting her, the percentage who think she would probably beat Mr. Trump has jumped 16 points since June, from 39% then to 55% now.
Sanders has also made some gains on electability. More of his potential supporters now think he would probably beat Mr. Trump (58%) than said that in June (51%) or July (50%).


FORTUNE's Ros Kransy and BLOOMBERG NEWS examine the new poll and note, "Among those considering supporting the Massachusetts senator, the percentage who think she would probably beat President Donald Trump in 2020 has jumped 16 percentage points since June, to 55% from 39%. That cuts into Biden’s key argument that he’s the Democrat most likely to beat Trump."


 22 hours ago
New CBS polls: New Hampshire: Warren 27 (!!!) Biden 26 Sanders 25 Buttigieg 8 Harris 7 Iowa: Biden 29 Sanders 26 Warren 17 Buttigieg 7 Harris 6
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 21 hours ago
80% of Warren supporters in new early-state poll say they'd be enthusiastic or satisfied if Sanders won the nomination. Basically the same results for Sanders supporters asked about Warren.
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Joe Biden continues to struggle despite so many in the press propping the War Hawk up.  In an appearance on NPR last Tuesday, he clearly lied claiming he had immediately expressed opposition to the Iraq War after it started.  Lie.


 1 hour ago
Joe Biden tries to rewrite the history of his support for the war in Iraq - U.S. News -





 6 hours ago
Joe Biden lying about Iraq shows why our nation has so many wars








How fortunate he's got Glenn Kessler (WASHINGTON POST) on his side to lie for him.  Glenn 'reports' on it today.  Six days after the fact.  He refuses to call it a lie because he waited to 'report' until he got Anthony Blinken's response.  Blinken says Joe mispoke.  Joe doesn't know how to speak?  Joe doesn't know his own record?  Blinken's ridiculous response requires a fact check of its own but, don't worry, Glenn will never do that.

A fact check, by the way, that takes six days to conduct over something this basic really argues that Glenn's not up to doing fact checks -- a point we've made before including when he went out of his way to misconstrue what Beto O'Rourke said in order to call Beto a liar.  The real liar is Glenn Kessler.  And his self-brag that he was reporting on Iraq before and after the start of the war in 2003 should not be seen as a good thing.  The fact that he was reporting on it and doing so in a one-sided manner that failed to question the push to war tells you everything you need to know about liar Glenn Kessler.



Liars like Glenn are why the Iraq War started.  His nonsense he does today is the sort of misdirection liars like Glenn are experts in.  Reality, Iraq is in shambles.

 Sep 7
New post: Video: Iraq Protests – Graduates Demand Jobs
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College graduates complete their studies, pass their courses and . . . can't find jobs.  There are no jobs in the corrupt system.

 Sep 5
Protests: Thousands Of Graduates Demand Jobs From Government
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  1.  Sep 5
Unemployment for young adults stands at 22%, Video: protests: Thousands of graduates demand jobs from government
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Iraq is not stable.  It is a failed state.  And it's amazing how few in the US media bother to pay attention to that reality or any of the warning signs in plain sight.

 Sep 7
while in a visit to Iran, officials refused to meet him, Moqtada al-Sadr, warned PM Adel Abdul Mahdi that on the verge of becoming a “lawless state”
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 Sep 5
Muqtada al-Sadr tweets: “[hashtage] farewell my homeland, This means the end of Iraqi government... This is a shift from a state of rule of law to [hashtag] the state of chaos. If the government didn’t take strict measures, I’ll declare my innocence from it.”

يُعَد ذلك إعلاناً لنهاية الحكومة العراقية.. ويُعَد ذلك تحولاً من دولة يتحكم بها القانون الى: واذا لم تتخذ الحكومة اجراءاتها الصارمة..…
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