NY Times caves again
MoveOn to Pay Full Times Ad Rate
On the issue of an issue that just hasn’t moved on, the liberal activist group MoveOn.org announced this afternoon that, in light of today’s column by The Times’s public editor, Clark Hoyt, it would pay the full advertisement rate of $142,083 for its controversial “General Betray Us?” spot in the A-section of the newspaper nearly two weeks ago.
TTP has resisted discussing this stupid, much ado about nothing free speech debacle faux controversy over the MoveOn ad. Mainly because it is simply another excellent example of the far from mainstream GOP performing a classic magicians hand fake in order to avoid having to actually discuss anything of merit- such as the war. Or torture. Or health care. Or…ok, you get the picture. And of course when the whiners want maximum coverage for their hypocritical sobbings about how partisan and shameful this exercise of free speech is they do a quick comb-over to cover their horns and slither into Faux News, where the Ministry of Truth functions 24/7.
Heres two important aspects to keep in mind about this ridiculous spectacle:
One, 19 US troops have died in Iraq since the ad was run. All of the debate, all the crocodile tears of the keyboard commandos and their chickenhawk idols, it only keeps people from discussing the issue, which is how do we get our ass out of our illegal war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Secondly, from all accounts General Petraeus is a bright fella, bright enough in fact to have written an army manual on fighting an insurgency.
Which he and the army aren’t following.
So if you want to screech about something, screech about that. We don’t have the forces in place to put down the insurgents- and we won’t without a draft- so what, exactly, are we doing there? That is what this nonsense about an ad is willfully obscuring- that we’re waging an illegal occupation of a once sovereign nation- on the cheap. We deserve to be- and will be- beaten like dogs until we leave. This is not the troops fault, they go where they are told.
The fault lays at the feet of a tyrannical president, a shamefully craven congress, a media who’s posture when reporting involves a head in the sand and a butt in the air, waiting to receive the latest spurting of propaganda, and a general too politically charged to have the strength to follow his own recommendations- or quit.
