Why did the wingnuts choose the NYT to spread their Iraq WMD lies?

[NNN0LHI]

Anyone else thought about this? Normally the very same people who used them do not have a single good word to say about that "liberal rag." But when the big scam came who was their go to newspaper? Why is that?

Don

[philly_bob]

1. Target of opportunity: they had Judith Miller in place.

Just my guess.

[speedoo]

7. I think that is the answer. nt

nm

[librechik]

12. She's not the only one. A lot of the "military experts" they have on staff

are really just mouthpieces for the MIC

[fascisthunter]

2. easy... no one at the time expected the Times to SHill for War

NYT's also had a reputation from the right as being left leaning, so it gave washington and the right wing cover.

[marmar]

3. It cracks me up when they call the NYT a liberal rag...It has a few center-left editorial writers...

...... but it's about as pro-corporate, pro-establishment, pro-empire as you can get.

[Kolesar]

6. NYT's climate protection stories are good...eom

[nyc 4 Biden]

8. +1

[spanone]

4. a source that one would expect the most cynicism from....wasn't cynical at all

voila!!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. because they could.

Besides, if they could convince two of their whores on the NYT, then the rest of us would swallow it whole.

[Poboy]

9. This is easy. Why was Bill Clinton used to put us at ease and pass NAFTA?

[blm]

14. and to get the left to move past BCCI and IranContra's many outstanding matters.

Gee....what would the fascists have done without their so-called 'Dem' enablers?

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Because it's the Paper of Record

It has a reputation that has long been far out of proportion to its quality. It gave their lies credibility.

[Irritable Liberal]

11. It gave Bush et al the cover they needed

See, even the NYT is corroborating our evidence, never mentioning that Judith Miller was getting her info from the same person who was feeding Bush and company the exact same garbage.

[blm]

13. Same reason they took over CNN in the 90s....to use up what credibility they had established

in their earlier days.

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. Because the NY Times is left wing media the same way that CNN

is left wing media.