Saturday, November 06, 2004

Common Folk

For sheer distortion of reality, the New York Times is mandatory reading daily, but this Thomas Frank piece is a winner.

"Democrats", he intones in the title, "forgot the common folk." Not - the media elites forgot the common folk. Frank likes to pretend that the New York Times and other leftist media who drive the Democrat party, and have for years, are bystanders instead of architects that are driving the Democrat party, as they have newspapers, to near destruction.

Frank has this wonderful advice (mind you, advice from major media that has thus far managed to destroy their own credibility and the credibility of the Democrat Party):
Yet this would have been a perfect year to give the Republicans a Trumanesque spanking for the many corporate scandals that they have countenanced and, in some ways, enabled. Taking such a stand would also have provided Democrats with a way to address and maybe even defeat the angry populism that informs the "values" issues while simultaneously mobilizing their base.

Excuuuuuuse me, but weren't the corporations that grew spectactularly and completely unregulated and without scrunity, under the Clinton watch?? And wasn't the SEC under Clinton responsible for the misstatement of earnings, the corruption and collusion of auditing firms in this fraud? And wasn't it the SEC under Bush who found this fraud and has pursued the criminals?

Don't count on the New York Times for truth, folks. They are in the Spin business - trying daily to find some excuse - any - that could be used to rally the party they own and control and direct.

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