Looking at America, Looking at the NY Times
Looking At America, Shitting On Our Values
There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes of their sickening behavior. It was impossible to see the founding principles of the greatest democracy in the contempt these men and their bosses showed for the Constitution, the rule of law and human decency.
It was not the first time in recent years we’ve felt this horror, this sorrowful sense of estrangement, not nearly. This sort of lawless behavior has become standard practice since Sept. 11, 2001.
What a great editorial, and you can tell the NYT is sincere because they just hired WILLIAM FUCKING KRISTOL.
Who better to write for the New York “Not a First-Rate Paper” Times, when Americans need “wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably”, than Bill Kristol who also “squandered America’s position of moral and political leadership, swept aside international institutions and treaties, sullied America’s global image, and trampled on the constitutional pillars that have supported our democracy through the most terrifying and challenging times.”
Kristol has been right about one thing, and one thing only: the New York Times is “not a first-rate paper”, and this hire proves it.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
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