Grey Lady Dumb

[Johnny Horton]

Originally Posted by mburbank

I follow what your saying. Your right, the best course of action would be to NOT apologize. They could have said, for instance:

"That was the intelligence we had. We acted on it"

You know, the way Colin Powell did when the documents that 'proved' Iraq was enriching Uranium were forgeries that could have been denbunked by a twelve year old using Google?

And the good news here is that the plagiarist/liar is black. That is to say, of African descent, descent being the operative word. I consider it good news for the Republican community who will now have new reason to scream 'high tech lynching of an Upiity Negro' Or they would if the media felt justifying war with poorly forged documents was a sexy enough story to run with.

If it had not been for the shame of slavery and the on-going and systemic racism so everlastingly ubiquitous in American society, the administration would never have would never have had to resort to hiring tokens. The Republican community should be ashamed of themselves for forcing this innocent victim into his hopeless situation. It's enough to make a person just go out in the parkin' lot and just thoi' up ever-whar.

I at first suspected you might have something to say. I was mistaken.

The latest on the NYT embarrassment is that the employment of a lying, stealing, incompetent black college dropout is "affirmative action backfiring." Apparently the plagiarist's boss, also black, could not bring himself to face the truth about his protégé, and applied the "Peter Principle", promoting the would-be reporter. (The fact that there are qualified Asians, Hispanics and Blacks for some odd reason does not register with the NYT hierarchy. Go figure.)