BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE
IT TOOK A LOT OF HITS AND SLAMS FOR IT'S IRAQ WAR 'REPORTING' FROM 2002 AND 2003 (AND SHOULD HAVE FOR THE 'REPORTING' OF DEXY AND BURNSIE WHICH FOLLOWED) BUT THE GREY LADY IS COMING BACK!
THE NEW YORK TIMES THIS WEEK HAS A WORLD WIDE EXCLUSIVE, A SHATTERING STORY OF DEATH AND A DEATH POSSIBLY CARRIED OUT BY A BELOVED INTERNATIONAL FIGURE.
AS THEIR HEADLINE PROCLAIMS:
"Doctor Who Worked on Joan Rivers Steps Down From Post at Medical Clinic"
DOCTOR WHO!
ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED SCI FI FIGURES OF ALL TIME!
DOCTOR WHO HAS BEEN THE STAR OF A SHOW WHICH HAS PRODUCED NEW EPISODES EVER SINCE 1963.
WILL HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE DEATH OF COMIC LEGEND JOAN RIVERS BRING DOWN THIS BBC DYNASTY?
STAY TUNED TO THE NEW YORK TIMES FOR MORE GROUND BREAKING REPORTING!
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
The editorial board of the Macon Telegraph weighs in on Iraq -- apparently to demonstrate their brains are as soft as an overripe Georgia peach.
All must come together and support US President Barack Obama's plan, declares a body determined to sport their ignorance.
There is no plan -- just more of the same.
Dissent is the hallmark of democracy.
How sad but telling: Journalists who rush to give up freedom and to censor and bully others.
They grow 'em mighty pathetic at the Telegraph.
Most of all, the scared little puppies can't stop wimpering -- such as here: "We need our lawmakers to act and act quickly. This is a case of national security. We would caution the president about making statements about what we won’t do. As the evolving situation in Syria and Iraq has shown, there may come a time in the not-too-distant future when more American boots are needed on the ground fighting next to Iraqis and Kurds."
You sort of picture them cowering in their own filth, don't you?
What national security?
Do the morons not even know how to listen?
In the speech, Barack declared, "While we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland, ISIL leaders have threatened America and our allies."
Where's the threat?
In the horror porn fantasies of those who work for the Telegraph.
Barack's unveiled plan turned out to be the same thing he was already doing but on a little bit wider scope.
And how's that been working out?
One sign of the failure of Barack's action would be membership in the Islamic State increasing.
AP notes CIA spokesperson Ryan Trapani declared today that there had been rapid growth in IS membership since June and that they now have "between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria, up from a previous figure of 10,000."
Not only have Barack's actions not reduced membership in the Islamic State, they also have increased it -- at a rate that not even Nouri managed.
Matthew Rothschild (The Progressive) grasps what the Telegraph's editorial board can't:
Another President who fails to recognize how counterproductive war can be.
In Iraq, there are 6 million Sunnis who, with every bombing against ISIS, will be pushed more and more into the extremists' arms, as they see the United States waging war against fellow Sunnis.
In Syria, 60 percent of the country is Sunni, and bombing ISIS is likely to have a similar effect, further tearing that country apart. And if somehow the bombing "degrades" ISIS, it will serve to solidify Assad in power.
Barack had a chance to offer something new and didn't. What he's planning to do is the same things that have allowed the Islamic State to significantly increase their own membership.
Even Ruth Conniff is dismayed. And I believe she is (I know Matt is).
But over at The Daily Warren -- excuse me, The Nation. It just feels like The Daily Warren.
There's something really sick about a political magazine grabbing onto politicians with all the desperation of a Jimmy Page groupie and running from one celebrity crush to another like a 12-year-old.
If only Elizabeth Warren had a third nipple -- like Harry Styles! -- the staff of The Nation could serenade Warren with "What Makes You Beautiful."
Instead, we're stuck with Leslie Savan and her tired horse face.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Is that the 'optics' Leslie rails against?
Well you know what I don't like?
I don't like the useless -- whether their name is Ralph Nader or Leslie Savin, I don't like 'em.
And you're useless if, like Leslie, you whine that Barack's speech was reduced to 'optics.' No, she doesn't know what she's writing about. Some believe they have an excuse to avoid doing the work.
Which is what she did: avoided doing the work.
First, the press did not dub Barack's suit 'tan.'
The tan suit -- I have no idea if it's tan or not nor did I obsess over it -- check the archives -- came from Twitter and other social media as Barack was delivering his speech.
The press even reported on that.
Leslie missed it.
She misses a great deal. Such as, repeating someone else's criticism -- huge chunks of it -- is not doing any of your own work.
She's so useless that she's written (and copied and pasted) a huge number of words whining about Maureen Dowd and others and how they covered the speech.
What Leslie never did?
Write about the damn speech.
We did. We wrote about it last week when he gave it in the 'tan' suit or whatever.
We wrote about it and we critiqued it.
It's a week later and all useless Leslie and her ugly horseface can do is whinny in the words of others.
Whether you agreed with Maureen Dowd or not, she's always one up on Leslie because Maureen puts her own thoughts in.
Doing a slightly better job than Leslie is Zoe Carpenter who asks "Is the War on ISIS Illegal?"
Zoe never took the time to weigh in herself -- an opinion writer at an opinion journal who can't share her own thoughts?
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