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Mumbai, the NYT's revisionism, and lessons not learned

The Times' Editorial Page blames the Bush administration for "blessing" the military coup against Hugo Chavez without mentioning that it did the same. Why does that matter?

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  • Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:05 PM

    zoltan newberry

    "Why did they smear him? Well, this unmarried guy had the temerity to have a girlfriend who worked at the World Bank. This American Jew was enjoying a real loving relationship with an Egyptian woman who did not work directly for him. The NYT helped to hound him out of there, and not a peep from stalin.com.

    And, when Clinton was revealed to not be having real affairs of the heart, but the kind of abusive sexual demands we passed so many laws to prevent, we also heard not a peep from Glen Greenberg and the NYT, who defended Bubba to the max. So, Glen and all you good libral-pwogwessive twits found no problem with Billy Clinton's predatory behavior toward women, but Paul Wolfowitz had to go, right?"

    Hey, zoltan newberry, I hope you were clear headed when you wrote this, because I cannot fathom how you can come up with this crap. NYT defended Clinton? Did you read all NYT editorials about Whitewater? I am not talking about the despicable assertions by the Republican Dan Burton, right wing talk radio and the disgraceful hounding of the Clintons by WallStreet Journal.

    Are you saying there were no ethical lapses by this unmarried guy at the world bank who happened to be a "neocon"? Just because the hypocrites at the WallStreet journal came to his defense does not mean that he was as clean as a whistle.

    And will you lay off the ridiculous attacks on Glenn? He is more honest and decent than the lying idiots (neocons) who cooked up the Iraq war to satisfy their egotistic need to rearrange the map of the middle east.

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