Sunday, April 23, 2006

NYT: All the PR Fit to Print

The continuing slide in the NYT stock price is mirrored by its sloppy, lazy journalistic standards, obviously aided by an ideological favoritism towards Clintonistas, that Mickey Kaus unmasks in his latest irrepressibly funny deconstruction of the old Grey Hooker on the Hudson:
"New York Times Scammed by Clinton-Burkle Spin? The NYT's John Broder and Patrick Healy describe the origins of the life-giving friendship between Bill Clinton and Ron Burkle with a PR-perfect paragraph that should have set off the BS-meter:"

You really have to link the article to understand how the blowsy old hooker NYT kow-tows to Burkle and Clinton, including a quote by Burkle that Bill Clinton "spends 500 hours/year with me going around on my private plane to humanitarian activities" besides mentioning how other ex-Presidents have profitably prostituted themselves for lucre after their terms of office [except for Gee-Mah the Eff-Up Carter, who gets praised by the NYT for messing up the monitoring of elections around the world with his clueless platitudes.]

It turns out that Burkle may be the NYT's new humanitarian-of-the-month because he invests in losing enterprises like Al Gore's invisible TV network and donates mucho dinero to the Democrats.

Of course, no mention was made of Burkle's very messy divorce in the NYT, nor of the New York Post Page Six psychodrama Burkle instigated, possibly to keep his divorce papers from going public.

Nor does the Op-Ed piece in the NY Post concerning the $500 million investment the California Pension Fund has invested in Burkle's Yucaipa Enterprise get mention in the NYT, which reserves its Pulitzer-reporting to treasonous law-breaking exposes of America's national security defenses. [It's obvious to all but the NYT that there is a giant slush-enterprise operating at the Burkle Company HQ that reeks of Democratic Party cronyism].

As the NYT stock price plummets further south, perhaps the CALPERS Democratic slush operation might decide to subsidize this agitprop outlet of the MSM's leftish fringe.

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