The morning after the heroic former Mayor of New York called the New York Times one-sided and biased, the bombastic old newspaper-turned-DNC-operative is still out there, trying to be accepted as a real newspaper. Fewer and fewer are buying it, and by "buying it" we mean either the line or the product. Around the rest of the country, dozens of old guard papers who have followed the Times lead and allowed leftist opinion to leak off the editorial page and onto the news pages are blazing the trail for the Times down the path to bankruptcy.
I remember the days when the New York Times was the dream job for a young journalist. It wasn't that long ago. I used to purchase it three or four times per week and wouldn't throw it out until I'd read the whole thing. Everybody knew the editorial page was pretty far out there, but who cared? And wasn't the editorial page enough for the far left? Here they got their opinion out there in a publication that millions of people read and held in high respect. But like some little kid seeing a jar of candy on the counter, a bunch of idiots decided that far left opinion would be "more meaningful" were it allowed to pop up in place of the news on the front page. Did it make far left teachings more believable? Of course not. When somebody is telling you that no matter how hard you work, your earnings need to be reallocated to someone else, it wouldn't matter if it were wrapped in gold, it's still junk. Instead, by mixing the news with far left nonsense, the entire news industry suffered a tremendous hit. People have stopped buying newspapers. Newspapers are falling by the wayside one after another and the rush to oblivion is quickening. If obama loses despite the far left using the death march of newspapers to push a total failure of a candidate, another dozen major publications will certainly shut their doors. I was a journalism major at Maryland and I love the industry. There was no better place for an idealistic young person. It wasn't that long ago when opinion anywhere but the opinion pages was absolutely not allowed. In fact, we libs would jeer at the dummies who tried to slip an opinion into their news accounts. Sometime between 1977 when I graduated and today that primary rule changed. How ridiculous! People bought papers to be informed. You learned what was going on on the news pages and, if you needed cogent help in forming an opinion about the day's events, you could read the opinion pages. Now you cannot get half a clue about important events reading the newspapers, that's how bad it has become. I'm liberal, I love newspapers and I stopped buying the Times and cancelled my subscription to the Baltimore Sun years ago. In the case of the Sun, it was the day after one of their far left nuts used a terrible racial slur to describe Maryland Lt. Governor and eventual RNC Chair Michael Steele. It was a slur that was never apologized for nor retracted, and the writer was never fired. I cancelled the next day. Any paper that slipped that far wasn't a newspaper any more. I'll confess to picking up the sports pages now and again. The Sun still has fine MLB reporting, although their extreme cutbacks have slaughtered their college and prep coverage. I used to buy the Times every Tuesday, for certain, when they ran their weekly Science section. Then that got over-run with the Global Warming nonsense. (I sense that the Earth is warming a bit, and I can't rule out that man either has a bit to do with it, or will at some point. But the idea of butchering the economy on such slipshod science is absurd. Any idea that has to do with taking the USA out of the role of World Leader, when we've proved a million times over that we are the world's last real hope, is worse than absurd and stupid, it's suicidal.
Newspaper people don't even have the moral courage to admit their trip down the far left highway has been the major cause of the circulation downturn. Here in Baltimore they assigned a reporter to do a story about their declining readership and concomitant slippage in advertising revenue and, typically, his story didn't even mention the fact that many former readers quit because they couldn't stomach the far left junk on the front page day in and day out. The sad truth is that the Sunpapers is a lot worse than the Times when it comes to far left gibberish. During the Bush presidency, on days when the rest of the media was covering something other than Iraq, the idiots downtown would routinely run some kind of story describing another outrage in Iraq. I'd look online and in other papers to see if they had anything like it and they didn't. In the last four years, while Obama was butchering the domestic economy, the Sun acted like it wasn't happening and all was well in Washington. Similarly, in Annapolis they acted like they were on the O'Malley payroll. Here the state economy was on a downbound train, but in the Sun, all was well. Taxes going up to the point that Maryland is one of the most heavily taxed states in the nation, but in the Sun, no word about it. This is how bad it is: even the Washington Post could not bring itself to endorse Governor O'Malley for re-election. One of the Posts' editorial writers was interviewed on the local news and asked how the Post could have endorsed former Governor Bob Ehrlich over O'Malley. The Post writer was incredulous. How? Have you lived here the last four years? How?
Still, in Maryland, where Democratic voters out-number Republican voters by, I think, 3-1, O'Malley won a narrow victory. Fuel taxes and other taxes are skyrocketing. Maryland is a sanctuary state, meaning that illegal immigrants are welcomed here. Enough residents have signed petitions to put one O'Malley-sponsored law up for a referendum vote. it has to do with state-sponsored benefits for illegals. Maryland has advantages in the current economic malaise that other states do not: it has a high number of federal and state employees whose jobs and funding are unaffected by the rotten economy. Hence, out unemployment rate is a bit lower than the country as a whole.
On one day earlier in the week the New York Times had two front page stories about the lad out in Missouri, Todd Aikan, who made the dumb remark about rape. Two? Even one is a push, but two? Readers of the times would not even know what a failure obama has been over the past four years. they wouldn't know that china has begun threatening Japan. they wouldn't know that obama nearly chickened out when it came time to pull the trigger on osama. they wouldn't know about the big lies obama's campaign has been telling about Governor Romney (even the Post has been critical of this). But Times readers know a lot about Todd Akin because the Times wants their readers to think this is typical GOP behavior. They want that desperately. The question is why these people are so hellbent on pushing such an incompetent - obama -on the nation for four more years? Are they, collectively, that miserable in their lives that pulling a stunt like that gives them pleasure? The USA is the beacon of light that the rest of the world envies. It is no coincidence that one of the biggest national problems is the overwhelming wave of would-be immigrants. What other nation has a problem that even is one-half of the one facing this country?
Sure, Mr. Akin has an ego problem. he can't come to grips with the pain he is causing his party and his country by staying in the race after such a stupid mistake. If he jumped out of the race and, two years hence, ran again for Congress, all well and good. But he pulled his goofiness in a year the GOP can retake Congress. The first poll that weighs his gaffe has the weak Democrat and emminently beatable Claire McCaskill up ten points (there actually was one poll that came out earlier and it showed Aikan still up by a point despite the gaffe. But that poll over-sampled Republicans by 9.5 percent. Every other poll over-samples Democrats. Aikan is going to be extremely unpopular for the rest of his life if he won't pull out and M if he doesn't stop to see the forest those trees are blocking from his view.
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