Rep. Peter King slams New York Times: 'Apologists for terrorists'
By HADAS GOLD | 1/2/14 2:35 PM EST
Rep. Peter King went on an anti-New York Times tirade on Thursday afternoon, deriding the paper of record as a "disgrace" and calling on Americans to "reject" it for its editorial calling for clemency for Edward Snowden.
"Their editorial today and their whole pattern over the last several years, they’ve really made themselves a blame-America-first rag as far as I’m concerned, and why we exalt The New York Times is beyond me," the New York Republican said on Fox News. "They go out of their way to be apologists for terrorists and go after those in law enforcement and military who are trying to win this war."
King, who has long been a defender and proponent of the National Security Agency, called the editors "a disgrace" and said he wishes they "cared more about America than they did about the rights of terrorists' appeasers." King said NSA programs do not violate the privacy of Americans and that lives are saved because of them.
“And yet, The New York Times races to Mr. Snowden’s defense. They don’t care about American lives being lost," King said. "They have this narrow, liberal, left-wing ideological point of view. They did it to the NYPD; they’re trying to do it to the NSA."
"It’s time for Americans to stand up and reject The New York Times and expose them for the rag that they are."
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