Lies About the N.Y Times

There is no let up in the right's utterly dishonest attacks on the New York Times. Michelle Malkin posted about it both today and Monday. The lies in her longer piece from Monday are quite shocking. Even by her standard.
Her post focuses on the dastardly publication by the Times of information about the Cheney and Rumsfeld summer homes in Maryland. Michelle Malkin is outraged that the paper would publish a picture of Rummy's house - even after Rummy said it was fine by him, and the secret service said no harm was done. She entitled the post "Our Homes are not Our Castles," as she wanted to sream to her Gods of the left's propensity to publish personal information about political opponents, while the right, the far too nloble right, could nevercommit such evil.

She writes that "Leftists scoff at my observation that there is a concerted effort to dig up and publicize the private home information of prominent conservatives in the media and blogosphere to intimidate them"  To prove her point Malkin lists four links. The first and the second are two posts from one blog. The fourth is in fact a conservative blog who is a supporter of Michelle's. The first and the last links are speaking of posts containing personal data about Michelle herself, which were part of a response to Michelle's publishing personal data about someone on the left. So, in looking at this problem so far, we have found one lefty blog and one righty blog that post personal info on political opponents; the righty one being Michelle herself. (april 19/2006, 8:53 P.M.) The fact that she had posted an opponent's personal info should have surprised anyone who had read the following sentence a few paragraphs earlier in the post: "Conservative readers have asked me to publish the private home addresses of NY Times reporters, editors, and photographers.  My response: NO."

Which brings us to the third link. While this does give out some information about Rumsfeld's personal data; it's unclear to me that it is a "lefty" site. It lists so much foreign data, that I suspect it's not even a site run by Americans. But it provides personal data on at least two more Americans - that would be the addresses of the winter and summer homes of both Mr Sulzberger and Mr Keller. These gentlemen are the publisher and the editor in chief of the New York Times.

So while Michelle thinks it an outrage that the Times named the town in which Rummy has a house, and showed a photo of the house, with Rummy's permission, she herself links to a site that gives the exact street addresses of the homes of two people who run the Times, even though she explicitly said she refused to do so.

This sleazy, reprehensible behavior is not part of the Republican tradition. The party that offered us Goldwater, Rockefeller, would never want us to  waste our vote so that idiots  can conspire to keep a liar in power.

Comments

[Joe Huffman]

I think you probably missed the point on "the fourth". It's a easy to miss with a quick scan. I think MM linked to that page to point out one of the comments I received, and then posted, after putting the information on the web page. This person said they wanted to rape MM with a broken beer bottle.

Also, being nit-picky here, I don't consider myself conservative. Libertarian is a better label. Being an atheist and supporting gay marriage sort makes me an outcast in conservative circles.

[entlord]

The funny thing is, after admitting that there has been a number of fluff pieces on various elected officials' weekend retreats, they continue to flog the matter that the article revealed that there is a lens in the birdhouse on the front lawn.
Their argument is that now Al Qaeda knows where the security camera is and can attack with impunity.
I guess they think Rummy and Cheney got their security systems off the Home Shopping Network, like these wingnuts obviously did.

[bbbustard]

Joe - Thanks for your comment. I apologize for using the word conservative; I didn't look at your own site enough.
But I disagree with your other point.In linking to your site Michelle acted as if she were proving her argument that liberal sites like to publish the private data of prominent conservatives. What was on your site was sick and evil, but did not support the
point which Michelle claimed she was making.
Are you two driving to MO? My Uncle who lived in Idaho some years ago, would have had no problem with that idea

[bbbustard]

Thanks Entlord, but I have to disagree - I think the fear is that Dick and Rummy had Haliburton install their electronic protection, at huge cost to us, but are totally undependable and unreliable. The Bushies are caught inthe proverbial sticky wicket: They overpaid the same group to protect those two guys as they did to provide tons of other services. We have reason to believe that the lens in the birdhouse will not work, but, really, all of the other billions we have given them has been money well spent.