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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:21 AM
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New York Times Accused of Toying with Treason
Here is the wingnut take on the NY Times. After all the Times has done for the warmongers, this is the thanks they get.http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=katsiva&comment=113577677004536750

by Jim Kouri, CPP
New York Times Accused of Toying with Treason
December 28, 2005 06:19 AM EST


Here's the opening of their December 27 editorial titled, "Gray Lady Toys with Treason":

"Has The New York Times declared itself to be on the front line in the war against the War on Terror? The self-styled paper of record seems to be trying to reclaim the loyalty of those radical lefties who ludicrously accused it of uncritically reporting on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

"Yet the paper has done more than merely try to embarrass the Bush administration these last few months.

"It has published classified information -- and thereby knowingly blown the covers of secret programs and agencies engaged in combating the terrorist threat."

While the New York Post stopped short of calling the New York Times' actions treasonous, I for one won't. I believe that the Times should be investigated, prosecuted and suffer the consequences of their actions in a time of war. Whether they believe we are fighting a war or not, isn't the point. The point is they committed an act far worse than those accused leakers in the Valerie Plame investigation; an investigation that the NY Times championed. How many times during the course of the Plame investigation did the Times sanctimoniously fret over our national security? Does the word hypocrisy come to mind?


http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=11075
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:23 AM
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1. Sad. n/t
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Chimichurri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:26 AM
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2. The more stuff comes out against *, the uglier this is going to get.
Bushco have thrown down the gauntlet and KNOW they are above the law.
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:26 AM
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3. No... they blew the cover
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 09:27 AM by Gman
on the government secretly spying on US citizens. Knowingly blowing the cover on illegal activities of the US government is not a bad thing. This is the same bunch that would call Patrick Henry a traitor because he said "Give me liberty or give me death." and that he was endangering national security and that if he wasn't a terrorist supporter he would have nothing to be afraid of.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:36 AM
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4. Welcome to the new and updated world of 1984
Where telling the truth and upholding the Constitution is now treason:banghead:

And I love this little gem of historical rewriting: "In fact, most of the left in the US were against entering World War II until Hitler attacked the USSR." The sad truth of the matter is the that the vast majority of Americans who weren't wanting to get the US involved in WWII were Republicans, conservatives, and the fascists that abounded throughout the nation at this time. Charles Lindbergh, a vicious anti-Semite, Henry Ford, who provided Hitler with the inspiration for the "Final Solution", and George W's grandfather, Prescott Bush, who helped bankroll Hitler, were all against America entering WWII. Republicans throughout Congress employed many obstructionist tactics in order to keep the US out of WWII for as long as possible, and probably would have had complete success except for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In is absolutely amazing how much these people are willing to twist the truth in order to serve their own purposes. Of course one is coming to expect that from these Neo-Cons. And sadly, their followers and lap-dogs will eat this shit up and proclaim it to be the gospel truth. Just so damn pitiful.
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:44 AM
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5. Once again, "The Party of Personal Responsibility"......
takes none. They instead deflect all criticism and responsibility to the people that point out their enormous transgressions. There's not an ounce of character or integrity within the entire Republican Party, not an ounce.
They break the law, create intelligence to illegally take our country to war, out clandestine CIA Agents, spy on our own citizens and destroy the lives of anyone who dares question their abuses. Yet it's the new York Times that is at fault here. :eyes: These people are so pathetic it's sickening. If this doesn't demonstrate the dangers of one political party controlling every aspect of our government, nothing does.

November 2006 can't come soon enough for me!
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A Simple Game Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:15 AM
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14. I know five Republicans that used to have an ounce of
integrity. Really, I do.

In December of 2000 they pooled their integrity and put it into a one ounce perfume bottle, actually filled it to the brim! Their reasoning was, they had no immediate plans for using it, but you never know when it might come in handy.

They were quite proud of their achievement, and that was their downfall. They liked to brag about having some integrity and would show it off to impress people. On one occasion they were showing it to a Democrat when the stopper came off the top of the bottle. Well the integrity did what anything with, well anything with an ounce of integrity would do, it flew out of the bottle and attached itself to the Democrat.

So, yes, as far as I know, Republicans don't have an ounce of integrity between them.
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SillyGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:11 AM
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6. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Its astounding to me the amount of the pretzel logic these RWers will employ to make their arguments. To this creep its no big deal for an Administration official to out a CIA agent and a CIA front company, but its treason for a newspaper to report on the criminal acts of the Administration.

I notice that when they have no valid defense, they muddy up the waters with their trademark anti-American treasonous leftists routine. Joe McCarthy would be so proud:

During a recent Fox News Channel debate between talk show host Mike Gallagher and left-wing columnist from The Nation, David Corn, something interesting occurred which went unnoticed. Usually, it's the liberal-left debater who resorts to name calling (i.e. racist, xenophobe, jingoist, etc.). After Corn's diatribe against the war and the Commander-in-Chief, Gallagher simply replied that Corn believed what he was saying because he's Un-American. For the rest of the debate all David Corn could do is protest that he indeed was not Un-American. And Gallagher laughed for the rest of the time he and Corn were on the air. A wise man once told me that most leftists are cowards, but hell hath no fury like that of a leftist uncovered.

Someday, hopefully soon, conservatives will stop pussy-footing around and call a traitor a traitor and treasonous behavior treason. Let's uncover them. Let the fury begin.





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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:12 AM
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7. When you lie down with Republicans... n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:16 AM
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10. Yep. They deserve each other.
Thank goodness for the Indy media and the net.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:13 AM
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8. Didn't The NYT Hold That Info For A Year To Save Chimpy's Ass
in the 2004 "election"?
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:33 AM
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11. Yes, they did. Only released it because it was going to be in a book
that one of their reporters had published.
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:14 AM
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9. Funny how the same people who are waging their own
divisive culture wars here at home . . .are so obsessive about screaming "treason" at any story that doesn't mimic the Party line.

If we are truly a "nation at war" every wingnut should be tossed into a detention camp for promoting dissent and disunity on the homefront. No nation at war would allow a stupid "war on Christmas" at home while its military is risking lives overseas.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:39 AM
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12. Ohm Jeez, I can't believe they're trying this! Never mind...
It's as bad as the way they spun Judy Miller.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:49 AM
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13. The hysteria in the room must be cutting off the author's oxygen. n/t
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