If Bush declared the moon was made of mozzarella cheese would the NYT quote him without question?

[NNN0LHI]

[C_U_L8R]

1. Yeah but Faux News would make a friggin' pizza pie

[billyoc]

2. "Democrats see things differently"

:eyes:

[old guy]

3. Not only the NYT but all the other major outlets as well.

[notadmblnd]

4. No, cause everyone knows it's made out

of American cheese not mozzarella.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Yes, But That's OK - News is for News - Editorials are For Comments

That's just the way it is in a good news outlet. The Times rips Shrub a new asshole almost every day on its editorial page.

[jobycom]

6. They've quoted more outrageous stuff from El Hashheadidente.

They'd quote him, they'd praise him for his courage in standing alone in his beliefs, and they'd give point-counterpoint arguments making boths sides equal, so that the audience could make up their own minds. And they'd give the one voice agreeing with him the last word.

[saltpoint]

7. The TIMES is a bundle of contradictions. It's at once complicit in

the administration's malfeasance (see Judith Miller) and a bruisingly insightful detractor (Frank Rich and Bob Herbert).

But it's also a hell of a good read most of the time. Frank Rich and Bob Herbert are worth any number of small-town U.S. newspapers.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Makes me wonder why guys like Frank Rich and Bob Herbert stay with such a discredited paper?

Maybe they are only there to provide a little cover?

People have done stranger things for money.

Don

[saltpoint]

12. Nah. They're there because they're the best in the business.

Frank Rich is comprehensively intelligent. And they don't hold him back. They let him roam free and far and wide.

Herbert's columns against the Bush administration these past few years have been scathing. He rips the flesh from their bones.

[NNN0LHI]

16. They stay with a thoroughly discredited paper because they are the best in the business?

I don't know if that makes sense to me?

I think they could do better if they really wanted to.

Don

[saltpoint]

17. I'm not in the camp that believes the New York TIMES is a discredited

newspaper.

And I'd like to see you name a colunnist with sharper teeth than Rich.

[ronnykmarshall]

8. It's not?

Well you learn new things everyday!

[radfringe]

9. not only that

Halliburton would immediately do a hostile take-over of all pizza and cheese companies, bush would award a no-bid contract to them to harvest the moon cheese and the media in general would run 24/7 stories about lindsey lohan, britney spears and/or paris hilton

[Hugin]

10. You betcha. nt

[TahitiNut]

13. We'd probably hear about the "reactionary" green-cheese DLC position.

:eyes:

[tom_paine]

14. Critics say that the moon is made of a complex assortment of minerals..."

"...but the president's spokespeople accused the liberal wing of the Democrat Party of hijacking common sense to the point where the simple and straightforward notion of the moon being made of cheese, is dismissed."

:puke:

And that is,in fact, how such a scenario would play out, if the Busheviks actually wished to launder that particular lie into convention wisdom, which they won't, not with this lie, anyway.

[Junkdrawer]

15. Beat me to it, Tom...That's it exactly...It would be portrayed as a PARTISAN....

issue, and thus, giving both sides "equal" time would be the only fair thing to do...with the proverbial thumb on the Republican side of the scale.

[Rosemary2205]

18. Why would they have to question it???

If the facts about the true makeup of the moon is out there, why would the NYT have to question Bush? Informed Americans would already know Bush is an idiot and liar. The NYT doesn't need to tell us. I have no beef with the NYT. They've been more informative than most media outlets.