What the Newsweek Farce Was Supposed To Distract Us From

[Matty]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/in...rtner=homepage

This week there were a lot of rumors that the WhiteHouse's Newsweek tirade was a diversion from something else they expected to break.

This story is it.

The New York Times attained a copy of an investigation report of Afghanistan torture by the U.S.

By the way, watch the interactive as well.

Edit: interactive

[kurto]

I guess the NY Times is just making stuff up. Clearly the NY Times is going to be attacked for reporting the news.

They must just be angry liberals.

(I thought I'd give the standard response when anyone reports bad news.)

[mosta]

nonsense. there was only one fluke occurence of two or three
unrepresentative, criminal individuals who secretly engaged
in questionable behavior. everyone else is representing this
country abroad, sowing democracy, with honor, as well
trained, well supervised, educated God-fearing Christians.
Americans would never stoop to the disgusting level of our
enemies. if any one ever would try to sink to the level of
torture, their peers, not to mention their superiors, would
never tolerate that. and our government certainly would not
try to pile lies on top of it.

[whiskeytown]

so we outsourced it - problem solved - [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

RB

[trippin bily]

lol
its the NEW YORK TIMES !!
Why not qoute CBS or NRWSWEEK !
Thank you. I needed a laugh.

[thatpfunk]

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its the NEW YORK TIMES !!

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You do realize that to normal people (not neo cons) it is one of the most respected newspapers in the world?

[jaxmike]

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its the NEW YORK TIMES !!

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You do realize that to normal people (not neo cons) it is one of the most respected newspapers in the world?

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Not anymore. It's readership has been dropping, and I suspect so has the confidence in it's reporting. It's NOT a reliable source of information. Never really was.

[kurto]

At least you're reliable for a laugh.

Who would have thunk that the neo-cons would automatically dismiss it? I sure didn't guess it.

[jaxmike]

six months ending march 2003 home delivery nyt 709,881
six months ending march 2004 home delivery nyt 688,645

six months ending sept 2003 home delivery nyt 702,419
six months ending sept 2004 home delivery nyt 692,154


six months ending march 2003 single copy nyt 323,166
six months ending march 2004 single copy nyt 310,155

six months ending sept 2003 single copy nyt 341,904
six months ending sept 2004 single copy nyt 310,431


apparently they had a small spike in growth recently. I expect thats from liberals moving out of "flyover" country and into the bastions of socialism.

[kurto]

Jax obviously doesn't even read his own posts. He printed 4 different statistics for the exact same thing.

And then, you can't be a RW troll without making a random comment about Socialism. GOOD BOY. YOU REMEMBERED!