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Akamai

(1,779 posts)
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 10:51 PM Jun 2017

Jason Zengerle today in NY Times said BOTH sides are engaged in a

scorched earth policy in North Carolina -- does anyone the hell believe this?

I sure believe that Republicans do "Scorched Earth" --but Democrats do not.

We want everyone to succeed --those we disagree with and their families.

Any thoughts on this?

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NRaleighLiberal

(59,940 posts)
1. Having lived in NC for 25 years and currently witnessing the insane hell that is GOP "leadership" -
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 10:54 PM
Jun 2017

both sides do not do it. The republicans are truly special kinds of assholes.

still_one

(91,937 posts)
3. The NY Times is going out of their way again to insure its double standard bullshit that
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 11:08 PM
Jun 2017

they pushed all last year, and into this year

This is the crap they pulled a few weeks ago when making excusing for the republicans view on global warming by saying that it was "Democratic hubris in the Obama years", helped push the republicans over the edge:

"The Republican Party’s fast journey from debating how to combat human-caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favoring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over cooperation and conciliation."

Then they proceed to make excuses for the republicans by saying "most republicans do not believe climate change is a hoax"

“Most Republicans still do not regard climate change as a hoax,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist who worked for Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. “But the entire climate change debate has now been caught up in the broader polarization of American politics.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

The Times has been doing this all too Frequently in their articles, believing I suspect, that it makes them appear "balanced". What it actually does, is distort the true picture of things.

The hiring of Bret Stephens is a perfect example of that philosophy:, "see how objective we are, we give equal voice to those who have different views, regardless that the Science on the subject has already spoken

In February they reported on a Democratic Member Quiting the Election Commission, and by invoking this so-called "balanced approach, left readers with the impression that both sides do it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/fec-elections-ann-ravel-campaign-finance.html

It was a completely distorted picture of what was happening in that committee. The Democrats on that committee were willing to compromise, and work with their republican counterparts, but guess which side would not meet half-way?

The article gave such a distorted picture of what was really occurring, that the Democrat who resigned from that committee followed through with an editorial to present an actual picture of things:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/dysfunction-and-deadlock-at-the-federal-election-commission.html

In the Times infinite wisdom to setup false equivalencies between the republicans and Democrats, they have a video by Mark Scheffle and Shane O'Neill telling us how both republicans and Democrats have flip-flopped on Comey. It is so out of context it is pathetic. Shame on the NY Times for this and the other garbage they have been peddling.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005090191/comey-fired-democrats-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

As far as I am concerned their paper isn't even worth lining bird cages.

The "gray lady" has been going down hill since Judy Miller

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
4. Krugman has been writing since 2000 about media both-sides-ism.
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 11:08 PM
Jun 2017

Does the NYT news section not read their own op-eds?
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