NYT - Who Are You? - No, Really, Please Tell Me, Who Are You?

[blue2helix]

Nice editorial from the NYT today entitled "The Great Divider" which delivers a scathing indictment of President Bush's destructive and misguided behavior. However, NYT editorials are harder to digest these days. I can't help but always detect a synthetic chemical aftertaste called Judith Miller. I believe a finer vintage would have fully extricated this pollutant from its wine.

Perhaps the reason that this bitter flavor persists is because the NYT facilitated a bloody mega tragedy by passing off unverified opinion (WMD) as fact to a trusting and deliberately uninformed public. To date, I have never heard from the NYT a proper explanation for this behavior in terms of either motive or process.

Forgive my cynicism (preferably skepticism when possible), but in today's terror climate, cynicism seems to be the only diagnostic tool available by which we can listen to the tortured and dying heartbeat of truth.

If the coming elections do in fact portend a historical moment of national consciousness and accountability, I hope that the NYT has the courage to come clean and join in the redemptive process.

But in the meantime, perhaps thou protesth too much NYT.