The Great Liberal Iraq-Up: Prosecute The NY Times

NOTE: This is a follow-up to a post from June 12:

The Great Liberal Iraq-Up - er, Crack-Up - has been going on almost since the statue of Saddam Hussein was ripped down. The latest evidence of the GLIU comes from the MSM as it straddles the fence on Zarqawi in a way reminiscent of the way WEEI's Glen Ordway straddles the fence on his highly-rated afternoon Boston radio show. Of course Ordway's fence-straddling is for laughs and for setting up debates with the likes of Sean McAdam, Bill Burt, and Steve Burton. The MSM's fence-straddling is motivated by opposition to US victory over Islamo-Arab imperialism and by the old Cover Your Ass mentality.

Coverage of Zarqawi's death illustrates this CYA approach - there were repeated denials about Zarqawi, Al Qaida, and Saddam Hussein, even though the facts showed the truth of the matter to be the opposite of the MSM's cherished conceit denying that Iraq and Al Qaida were allies in aggression. And such denial continues as a successor to Zarqawi is named. The reaction of Democrats to Zarqawi's passing further reinforces that the Democrats are not interested in US victory, which says a lot about how much Democrats sincerely care about this country.

And this culture of denial continues as the hard truth that Saddam Hussein had strong stores of N/B/C weapons and it was the US - no one else - who destroyed them continues to come out.

Even more revealing, though, is how much the MSM and liberals in the State Department don't care for US victory, shown as they team up to blow another operation by the US against Al Qaida. And as the MSM screams about the brutal treatment of Zarqawi, one should contrast their willingness to kill Terry Schiavo.

Then there is the MSM's smear campaign against Ann Coulter because she pointed out that the Jersey Girls, four widows of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, had been coached and cajoled by leftist writer Gail Sheehy into becoming propagandists against US victory against the enemy that killed their husbands. It shows what kind of "tolerance" the MSM has - and an even more egregious example of liberal "tolerance" is the recent harassment of Swift Boat veterans who called out John Kerry for lying about his service and lying about American conduct in Vietnam, harassment disturbingly reminiscent of Communist psychological torture of American prisoners.

Follow-Up:
So Now we have the New York Times in effect breaking the law by blowing the cover off a legitimate program tracking terrorist bank accounts. The program is perfectly legitimate and effective, but perish the idea that the Times would ever give a damn about American security - this is, after all, the same Times that published the stolen Pentagon Papers in grossly falsified form to push an antiwar agenda that the actual papers resolutely did not support, this on top of its consistently inaccurate coverage of Vietnam onward (and hence the title of one of the few books to take the Times to task for its shoddy foreign affairs coverage, the recommended 1984 document Bad News: The Foreign Policy Of The New York Times by Russ Braley).

The Times has thus given away what most objective viewers felt for over 40 years - it is a newspaper dedicated to aiding and abetting the enemy of the US, pretty much no matter who it is.