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November 3, 2006

About Kerry and the Half Wit New York Times

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Not surprisingly, the NYT presented a laughable distortion of reality in an effort to spin Kerry's disgust for the military:

[...] On November 2, Kate Zernike offered a "Political Memo" in which she suggested that the whole dispute came down to Kerry's inadvertent failure to pronounce one crucial word. "But with a single word- or a single word left our of what was supposed to be a laugh line direced at the president - Mr. Kerry has become a punching bag again, for Republicans and his party," she wrote.

A single word? Could conservatives really be so ruthless and ridiculous as to raise all this ruckus over the accidental omission of a solitary syllable?

Zernike repeats this descripition of the controversy later in her piece: "Mr. Kerry's prepared remarks to California students on Monday called for him to say, "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush." In his delivery he dropped the word 'us.'"

This is a laughable distortion of reality, and Ms. Zernike needs to correct the record as soon as possible. "In his delivery he dropped the word, 'us.'"? Even if you believe the dubious claim that some speechwriter had written the inane and unfunny joke referenced above (a joke which I believe was thrown together retroactively, to try to get Kerry off the hook), he clearly "dropped" more than as single word.

[...] His actual statement came out as follows: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't you get stuck in Iraq."

Sorry, but these two statements are NOT identical save for the single crucial word :"us." They include only 11 matching words, while 23 words from the purported "original text" never actually passed Kerry's lips.

More on the NYT "distortion of reality" here.

As an American, do yourself a favor. Stop buying the New York Times and join the shareholder lawsuit.

Posted by Abdul at November 3, 2006 10:01 AM

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