Comments on: NYT – trusted?/ripped off?/betrayed by? – ThinkProgress over Darrell Issa?

By: gwalt

gwalt — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:34:05 +0000

That they, the professional left, are coming out this early and lying a la Dan Rather and John McCain lobbyist affairs is telling. They have no arrows left in their quiver. No bullets left in the chamber. The Left is imploding under their own philosophy and bad ideas. As Glenn Reynolds likes to say; Faster please.

By: runner12

runner12 — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:29:50 +0000

do with his investigations into the Obama administration, namely Operation Fast and Furious or the Gunwalker scandal if you will.

I watched an hour long piece on this on Hannity the other day. It was eye-opening to see the blatant obstructionism being exercisesd by the DOJ.

Issa is relentlessly pursuing this, making himself some powerful enemies along the way. The Leftist media will do anything to discredit Issa while the Obama administration continues to stall and obstruct. The last thing they want is this scandal blowing wide open in an election year.

By: johnt

johnt — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:10:37 +0000

Issa has the cash to take out a full page ad, somewhere if not the Times, which is to scummy even to allow a fully paid response.
So which weirdo will handle the “we stand by our story” bit?
The things they will do for Obama and ruin.

By: Darin_H

Darin_H — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:18:54 +0000

I’d like for them to print the page 23 correction, and for Issa to sue them for slander/whatever and not ask for money, but for a front page correction.

By: toadold

toadold — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:07:59 +0000

In the US it is my understanding that if you are a public figure you can be defamed and slandered and your chances of redress through the court system are low and very expensive. However more and more people are getting tired of the loophole given by having to prove malice by the slanderer. The NYT may wake up some day and find that they have generated enough resentment that their political opponents will have enough power and public opinion on their side to change the law to something like what the British have. The court actions under those rules could be really entertaining and painful to the pocket books of the MSM.

By: rickbull

rickbull — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:52:46 +0000

I?m mentioning that last bit solely for the sadism.

Some of us have grown rather fond of your “sadism.” Please don’t stop doing it.

Thanks,
RickBull