Such is the news judgment of the New York Times. The Morning Joe crowd had a field day with the Gray Lady, and Pelosi’s travails, during the show’s opening half-hour today, Joe Scarborough having great fun pretending to assume that Pelosi’s pathetic presser would be on the Times’ front page one. Willie Geist eventually discovered the story on A20.
On a more serious note, Scarborough observed that “to be really truthful about this: everybody knows she’s lying.” Mark Halperin of Time was equally dismissive: “the position she took yesterday that caused the most people to laugh was when she said ‘after I realized this was a problem, all I could do was fight for Democratic control of Congress.’” Halperin also underlined the Times’ double-standard, remarking facetiously: “they’re using the template for Gingrich. Just what they would do if Gingrich [had been caught in a similar mess].”
When people including fellow Democrats are laughing at Pelosi, when everyone knows she’s not telling the truth, when the Speaker accuses a key player in the war against terrorism of lying, that is huge news–unless of course you’re a liberal paper more interested in preserving Dem power than in reporting the news.
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I saw this all this morning…and cracked up laughing, couldn’t help myself.
When you have even Mark Halperin agreeing, well, heck, it was priceless…
Job well done Joe …and by the way, much more fun was included later on with Kit Bond and the interview/segment.
For once I really enjoyed the show…
We all know if this was a republican speaker of the House they would not only be on the front pages, they would have had to step down by now by the msm and their screeching 24/7!
That’s pathetic, even for the NYT!
The Washington Times described Her Speakerness’ press conference thus:
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, her eyes wide, her hands gesticulating wildly, on Thursday laid out a third version of what she knew and when she knew it about the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, edging ever closer to debating what the meaning of the word “is” is”
But apparently the NYT just yawned. And they wonder why they are circling the drain….
This is incredible. The NYT is REALLY living on a different planet.
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