2fer: MOONie Times going Lib - & Faux supports Gays

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There ought to be a forum called "When Hell Freezes Over" with these two items as the first entries. And, no, I cannot take credit for the O'LOOFAH graphic here. It is actually in the 2nd link, including the caption.


"Who brought the loofah?"

On Edit: Awww, the graphic won't link. It's O'LOOFAH in a Gay threesome.

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/washington_times

Hell of a Times

Max Blumenthal

.... A nasty succession battle is now heating up at the paper, punctuated by allegations of racism, sexism and unprofessional conduct, that has implications far beyond its fractious newsroom. According to several reliable inside sources, Preston Moon, the youngest son of Korean Unification Church leader and Times financier Sun Myung Moon, has initiated a search committee to find a replacement for editor in chief Wesley Pruden--a replacement who is not Pruden's handpicked successor, managing editor Francis Coombs.

Preston Moon wants to wrest control of the paper from Pruden and Coombs, according to a Times senior staffer, in order to shift the paper away from their brand of conservatism, which is characterized by extreme racial animus and connections to nativist and neo-Confederate organizations. A Harvard MBA, Preston Moon is said to be seeking to install an editorial regime with more widely palatable politics. His search committee is reportedly headed by Times editor at large Arnaud De Borchgrave, the former editor in chief of UPI who edited the Times from 1985 to 1991. Once an ardent anticommunist who oversaw a Times fund for the Nicaraguan contras, De Borchgrave has been critical of the Bush Administration's unilateralist approach to foreign policy. According to a senior staffer and a source close to Times senior management, De Borchgrave favors UPI's editor emeritus Martin Walker as Pruden's successor. Walker is a former correspondent for the liberal British newspaper the Guardian and has been a vocal supporter of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's early New Labour politics. (De Borchgrave declined to respond to questions about his alleged role in the Times succession battle.) ....


http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/Issues/2006-09-21/news/tailpipe.html

Straight to TV Hell
A Fox News Stipend for Gay Newsgroup Has Homophobes Worried.

Maybe there's some truth to that "fair and balanced" slogan after all. Last week, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) held its national convention in Miami Beach, and the 600 or so attendees owed their fun in the sun partially to Fox News, which donated $10,000 to the event as one of its sponsors.

This came as a surprise to Tailpipe, since the network that brings you the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, those rebar-chewin', ultrahetero vaqueros who like to portray themselves as engaged in a constant struggle to keep their testosterone under control, isn't exactly known for its affinity for rainbows. It was also a surprise to a group called Americans for Truth, which bills itself as "the only national organization devoted exclusively to exposing and countering the homosexual activist agenda."

Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, acted swiftly in response to Fox's alarming gayness. He sent a strongly worded letter to Roger Ailes, president of Fox, demanding that Fox immediately deposit an additional $10,000 into the coffers of a "pro-family organization." This, LaBarbera wrote, would balance out Fox's alarming attitudes toward gays — especially if Fox decided to give money to AFT. By doing so, Fox would prove that it is "committed to living up to its credo and not taking sides in the Culture War." ....

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