[Peace-discuss] Sunday NYT: What to think

[C. G. Estabrook]

This is scary mainstream stuff indeed, and certainly should be taken seriously.

It does show how worried the liberal establishment is about the popular 
discontent represented by the Tea Party movement. (Don't these people know 
enough to leave politics to their betters?)

Worse, the liberal paper of record continues on its campaign in support of 
Mideast war - nothing new there, it's been down with the program for many a day 
- but also I think sees it as a cover for Obama's elite-favoring domestic 
policies ("Don't you know there's a war on?"), both directly and via 
deficit-hawkery.

Of course even the imminent disappearance of the NYT won't do much god.  The 
cure for the Times' bad speech is more speech, not less. We should be attacking 
directly the Times liberal prevarications and misrepresentations, as you do 
here.  --CGE

David Green wrote:
> Many elite Americans--mostly liberals--read the Sunday NYT in order to 
> be told what to think. Today Frank Rich told them that the Tea Party 
> movement has no basis in genuine dissatisfaction, including antiwar 
> sentiment (foreign policy is not mentioned in the article). Liberal Rich 
> throws in his lot with the "mainstream" GOP perspective:
>  
> "No less an establishment conservative observer than the Wall Street 
> Journal editorialist Dorothy Rabinowitz describes Paul’s followers 
> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703444804575071330757893248.html> 
> as “conspiracy theorists, anti-government zealots, 9/11 truthers, and 
> assorted other cadres of the obsessed and deranged.”"
>  
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28rich.html?ref=opinion
>  
>  From Israeli Ephraim Karsh, we get a racist view of the Islamic world, 
> and the case for an attack on Iran:
>  
> 
> "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s two-track plan — discussion with 
> Tehran while at the same time lining up meaningful sanctions — is fine 
> as far as it goes. But a military strike must remain a serious option: 
> there is no peaceful way to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, stemming as 
> they do from its imperialist brand of national-Islamism."
> 
>  
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28karsh.html?ref=opinion
> 
>  
> 
> This is scary "mainstream" stuff, and should be taken seriously.
> 
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> DG
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