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Letting The Inmates Run The Article

By The Daily Dish
Jan 26 2010, 2:17 AM ET

DiA calls out the NYT:

[T]he Times, while putting this in the perspective of now and going forward, and noting voter anger several times, makes no mention of the budget situation Mr Obama inherited. Instead, it lets a spokesman for John Boehner get in a yuk-yuk line: "Given Washington Democrats' unprecedented spending binge, this is like announcing you're going on a diet after winning a pie-eating contest." This is like making fun of someone winning a pie-eating contest after you've just devoured a schoolbus full of children headed for fat camp. If, in the American newspaper's tradition of scrupulous balance, you're going to let both sides get their word in, then make sure to get both their records in too.

The amnesia of the American public seems to have infected even the NYT. And this is what is going on here. The forces of reaction are trying to psych out the forces of change and reform. And they're succeeding with this just as they succeeded in normalizing torture and forcing the sad, lost MSM into the euphemisms of war criminals.



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