NY Times: For a Day, Terrorism Transcends Politics

[gristy]

article: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/politics/24ASSE.html?hp
transcript: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/politics/24ASSE.html?hp
excerpts: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/politics/24PTEX.html

By TODD S. PURDUM
Published: March 24, 2004

WASHINGTON, March 23 - The setting was a nondescript Senate hearing room, but the scene was as singular as democracy itself: successive secretaries of state and defense with more than 14 years' combined service across Democratic and Republican presidencies being questioned by a bipartisan citizens' commission of familiar faces.

Yes, election-year politics crackled in the air. Yes, Republican panel members prodded and scolded Bill Clinton's cabinet members, and Democrats did the same to President Bush's. But the secretaries themselves often agreed with each other, regardless of party, and their public presence was a powerful sign that terrorism transcends politics - and that blame abounds for failing to fully face the threat in time.

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[stepnw1f]

1. Yawn

Everyone, pull out the American flag again. Ok... now impeach the bastards!!!

[kainah]

2. No wonder the NYTimes can't report anymore

I didn't realize they had gone deaf, too.

[Jazzgirl]

3. Gee, you think they finally fingured out someone was lying?

n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

4. kick

[annagull]

5. Man, the Gray Lady is turning into a dottering old fool

After letting a known liar like Judith Miller do a hit piece on Richard Clarke, love letters to Bush every other day by that psycho Bruimeiller(sp), the NYT really seems like a ship adrift. They have lost it.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Don't forget neo-con shill

David Brooks - If it wasn't for Krugman and a few others, I would pretty much consider the NYT to be a slightly more literate version of the NY Post.

[Democat]

6. NY Times is nearly worthless crap

After they got done spreading lies and rumors about Clinton, they went right into telling us what a great President Bush would be. Now they defend him as much as any other U.S. paper, if not more.

When will the media stop kissing ass to the right?

[leftchick]

7. and when Kerry is elected it will be...

president bashing all over again. They are worthless, wouldn't even wrap my fish in it.

[jrthin]

8. The NYT is a pathetic piece of waste

paper. Even if they were given a clue, they still wouldn't get it. Yesterday they started out their editorial, " Richard Clarke is an angry man." From that point to the end of the editorial, they failed to say why he was an angry man, if indeed Clarke is. Their lead sentence still begs the question, where they trying to leave the impression with the readers that Clarke is crazy or irrational. They need to justify that sentence and the creeps on the editorial board did not.