Category: New York Times

Paco Uses ‘Elitist C*nt’ In Reference To David Brooks!

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by Smitty

The Enterprising Paco appears to have gone all Dan Riehl over a certain John Feehery at the Daily Caller.

Feehery’s piece is a prime example of Brooksian nematodery. The title of this post comes from the following passage of Paco’s flogging:

You have unhappily tripped up upon your very entrance into the arena of public discourse by saluting that blackguard, David Brooks – a self-styled “conservative” whose principles have proven to be infinitely malleable, and whose worldview is a veritable windsock of elitist cant.

Read the whole thing; it’s a drubbing most delightful.

Adam Gadahn Can Look Forward To Excruciating Torment

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by Smitty

Dan Riehl notes of the recent acquisition in Karachi:

I also wish he were being interrogated under the Bush administration, as opposed to the current one.

This blog has obtained some hush-hush footage of the new interrogation methods to be used by the Administration’s elite interrogation outfit, code name: Redwater. In our endless quest to out-grey-lady the New York Times, we cheerfully reveal just what Gadahn can expect:

All the News That’s Fit to Steal

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The New York Times admits to acting as a “fence” for a word thief:

Zachery Kouwe, a Times business reporter for a little over a year, resigned last month after he was accused of plagiarizing from The Wall Street Journal. . . .
Plagiarism is a mortal journalistic sin, and Kouwe’s departure was inevitable from the moment that Robert Thomson, the managing editor of The Journal, sent Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, six examples of language taken verbatim, or nearly so, from a Journal article about continuing legal fallout from Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

How does this kind of stuff keep happening? Consider the process by which Kouwe was hired:

Mr. Kouwe’s career at The Times began in November 2008. He was one of about a dozen reporters and editors who were hired to enhance the Times business-news verticals (DealBook, Your Money, Technology, etc.). At the time, the hires rankled some staffers, since the paper was in the midst of a hiring freeze and other than acquiring superstars—Peter Baker, for example—editors weren’t hiring anyone for any other section.
The hires were encouraged by the business executives at the Times Company since those blogs tend to draw traffic (and compulsive readers) that are an attractive proposition to advertisers right now.

In other words, management was trying to go cheap. Hire a bunch of relative youngsters (Kouwe is 31) at substantial savings in comparison to the salaries of senior reporters and put them into an online format with minimal editorial supervision, yet packaged and sold to readers with the brand-name prestige of the New York Times. Yet another legacy-media strategy doomed to failure.

There are several issues involved here, including the demonstrable fact that people who are too lazy to do the jobs they’re paid to do can’t be counted on to give credit to those whose work they steal.

While I’ve sometimes joked about my own laziness, I’ve never been tempted to plagiarize. If something is so good that it’s worth stealing, just quote it and give credit to the source:

“Heh,” said Professor Glenn Reynolds.

“Hmmmm,” said Allahpundit.

“Pudding,” said Ace of Spades.

And, yeah, I stole that picture of Kouwe from the Observer, which lifted it from the Times. No honor among thieves. Or, as the attorneys say, “Fair use.”

Sue me, you vicious bastards.

Married at 10? Divorced at 12? Hey, Who Wants to Play ‘Guess Which Religion’?

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If you guessed “Lutheran,” try again:

Nujood is a Yemeni girl . . . 

(Doggone, I was going to guess “Belgian.”)

. . . and it’s no coincidence that Yemen abounds both in child brides and in terrorists . . . 

(Beware of the Utah Liberation Front!)

For Nujood, the nightmare began at age 10 when her family told her that she would be marrying a deliveryman in his 30s. . . .

(I’m guessing the deliveryman was Methodist, right?)

Her new husband forced her to drop out of school (she was in the second grade) because a married woman shouldn’t be a student. . . .

(Typical patriarchal Methodist!)

Nujood’s father asked the husband not to touch her until a year after she had had her first menstrual period. But as soon as they were married, she writes, her husband forced himself on her. . . .

(Methodists don’t take “no” for an answer.)

Yemeni journalists turned Nujood into a cause célèbre, and she eventually won her divorce. The publicity inspired others, including an 8-year-old Saudi girl married to a man in his 50s, to seek annulments and divorces. . . .

(Saudi Methodists — the worst kind.)

At first, Nujood’s brothers criticized her for shaming the family. . . .

(No self-respecting Yemeni Lutheran would get divorced.)

There are a couple of reasons countries that marginalize women often end up unstable. First, those countries usually have very high birth rates . . .

(Pre-pubescent girls can’t get pregnant, but the time to explain that to a Yemeni Methodist deliveryman is probably not on his wedding night.)

Second, those countries also tend to practice polygamy and have higher death rates for girls. That means fewer marriageable women — and more frustrated bachelors to be recruited by extremists. . . .

Polygamy and extremism — these are frequently occuring problems among fundamentalist Methodists. But maybe you noticed something kind of interesting here:

Not once in the entirety of his 807-word column did Nicolas Kristof name the religion of Nujood and her ex-husband.

Wonder why that is?

MSM Promoting Parasite Annabel Park

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A former New York Times “strategy analyst” attempts to create a left-wing clone of the Tea Party movement and — surprise! — gets gushy write-ups from both the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Professor William Jacobson exposes Annabel Park for the deceptive phony she is.

Remind me of this the next time Nancy Pelosi starts slinging around her “Astroturf” accusations. You can bet Annabel Park will never be smeared by Frank Rich.

Via Memeorandum, more at  Hot Air, Commentary, Left Coast Rebel, The Lonely Conservative,  JustOneMinute, American Power, The Jawa Report and Another Black Conservative.

Remember: If You Didn’t Vote for Obama, You’re a Dangerous Nut

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From my latest American Spectator column:

Accusing opponents of dangerous insanity has become so commonplace in the Age of Obama that such discourse is now taken for granted. Frank Rich devoted the entirety of his Sunday New York Times column to insinuating that the Tea Party movement is a paranoid aggregation motivated by “frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage,” and thereby complicit in the Feb. 18 crime of Andrew Joseph Stack III, who piloted his Piper airplane into an Internal Revenue Service office in Texas.
This rhetorical conflation of political protests and Stack’s kamikaze crash required Rich to overlook the quite specific grievances described by Stack in his profanity-strewn suicide note. Stack alluded to a “$10,000 helping of justice” — apparently a penalty for failure to file a tax return several years ago — and blamed his accountant and the IRS for a more recent audit involving $12,700 of his wife’s unreported income.
Along with his strictly personal ax-grinding against the IRS-CPA axis, Stack also ranted about “the vulgar, corrupt Catholic church,” “the monsters of organized religion,” “presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies,” the “rich” and “wealthy.” None of that bears meaningful resemblance to the politics of Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Glenn Beck or any of the other name-brand figures swept up in Frank Rich’s all-encompassing indictment of what he calls the “anti-government right.” . . .

Please read the whole thing.

UPDATE: It’s a target-rich environment, so to speak:

More at Memeorandum.