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June 10, 2007
Gray Lady Explains Burying Major Terror Plot Story
We finally have an answer to why the New York Times grudgingly printed the story about Muslim terrorists trying to blow up a gas line leading to JFK airport on page 30 of the Metro section (page 37 in the local edition).
Weekend editor Marty Gottlieb was the senior editor in the newsroom when the decision to bury the story was made. He explained to the Gray Lady's ombudsman that "he was mindful of a history of orange alerts that came at politically convenient times and previous terror plots that wound up amounting to less than they first seemed."
In other words, the NY Times figured we didn't need to know about a major terror attack in the nation's largest city being thwarted, one that U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf said would have caused "unthinkable" devastation, because President Bush probably made the whole thing up anyway.
As Hot Air points out, the news broke on a Saturday morning, the worst possible time for the government to make the story public if it were trying to draw people's attention. But then, the Times could explain this by reminding us that Bush is not only an evil genius, but also a bumbling incompetent.
This sort of tinfoil hat moonbattery passes for news at what was once our "paper of record."
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 10, 2007 7:18 PM
Comments
No, no, Bush himself could never come up with a plot like this...The FBI, at the urgings of and under pressure from the adminstration (Cheney, et.al), however could.
They need to foil something every once in awhile...makes 'em look like they are on top of things. Justifies their funding....etc.etc.
Posted by: westerberg at June 11, 2007 12:21 AM
OK everybody, time once again to laugh at westerburg!
Posted by: KHarn at June 11, 2007 1:56 PM
