NYT's Keller uses Spitzmas story to justify recent McCain smear
Attention Times: Stick to the News!
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Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, is trying to use his paper's Spitzmas story to lend credence to its recent John McCain contrivance:
"[A] day after Spitzer resigned in disgrace following the Times' revelations that he had frequented a high-priced hooker ring on several occasions, Keller, in a phone interview with E&P, clearly saw some room to boast.
"It certainly has had the same volume of reaction, sometimes a good story is just a good story," he said about comparisons to the McCain report. "We certainly took our share of heat on the McCain story. The McCain story is one that I am still proud of and stand by."
The McCain piece turned out to be an empty attack, inference and innuendo rather than news, while the Spitzer piece blew the lid off a personal and political fraud. You cannot use a recent success to justify past idiocy. But I can just image Pinch and Keller printing whatever garbage they want, and when they're called on it, insisting: "Well, remember, we broke the Spitzer story!"
This would be fine if time Old, Gray, Drunk Lady would stick to reporting the news, leaving the political opinion to their editorial page.
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Did not the authorities contact Spitzer's aides to tell them of the investigation...THEN the NY Times "broke" the story. Are we to believe these hard hitting, nose to the grindstone, NY Times reporters had no inkling of Spitzer's affinity for whores in the months or years that he has shown such an inclination? Or could it be the NY Times dared not derail their boy Spitzer, he of the support for the Times cause celebre, homosexual marriage, and risk not having the Governor do that vital work?
Whereas the story they "broke" regarding McCain's alleged relationship with a lobbyist of a personal nature has gone nowhere, was not instigated (obviously) by a legal investigation.
I wonder if the Governor of NY was a Republican who did not support the Times priority of homosexual marriage if the Times would have waited until the Governor's aides were contacted regarding the investigation to "break" the story? I suggest not.
Well, why not? One prostitute to another, trash to trash, birds of a feather so to speak.
Mr Keller and staff have finally met their medium.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Jesus Christ associated with, ministered to, and saved prostitutes. Jesus Christ cast the like of Bill Keller and his staff into swine, sending them off a cliff.
One can only hope that someday, Bill Keller is invited to a forum to discuss the merits of the McCain story, and get's taken to the woodshed by any number of capable candidates - lets see Charles Krauthammer maybe, or Bill Kristol, someone of that stature. This guy gets off way too easy talking to himself or to some friendly reporter and is never challenged directly, face to face. If the Times had any integrity, he would have been fired.
Where was the NYT when Spitzer was terrorizing innocent people on Wall Street? They were in his corner, praising him for fighting corporate corruption, that's where. All the while, political corruption was happening right in our front yard and the NYT -- ostensibly the last line of defense against the abuse of power by government officials -- was cheering him on.
Spitzer held a press conference to admit what he'd done. That's not a major investigative reporting coup, it's just a case of reporting what everybody else was going to report anyways, once the investigation led to charges.
None of this is going to change the fact that the editor of Time Magazine, the editor of U.S. News & World Report, the editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and numerous other major news outlets all refused to print the McCain story because it was so totally lacking in evidence.
Even the Boston Globe, which is owned by the NYT, didn't print it. Keller needs a serious reality check if he thinks this restores his credibility in any form or fashion.