We forgot to mention something yesterday with reference to the New York Times’ breathless report on Marco Rubio’s 17 traffic tickets over a span of 18 years “taken together with his wife.” Commentaries mentioned that Marco had but four of those during that time period. All were minor and both he and his wife’s traffic court obligations were promptly met. That “record” is the stuff of individual news stories fit to print by the lights of the NYT.
Maybe it’s not out of ignorance that they will publish stuff that is transparently false or misleading or biased. Maybe it’s because they have an agenda they are firmly committed to and assume it’s their readers who are stupid or ignorant.
Consider the “revelations” in this Thomas Lifson article in the American Thinker
New York Times ignored 15 unpaid traffic tickets of Obama in 2007
The problem is that the Times studiously ignored the scofflaw behavior of Barack Obama, who ignored 15 outstanding parking tickets until his run for the presidency forced him to clean up his record. Fire Andrea Mitchell reports:
Funny how this pitiful New York Times fails to release that Obama had 15 outstanding parking tickets dating back to the 1980’s. King Obama didn’t pay off these 15 parking tickets until just before he launched his presidential campaign in 2007. Ironic isn’t it? Remember State Department’s airhead Jen Psaki? She was a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign back in 2007 and dismissed the tickets as not relevant. But Rubio’s are according to the left wing media, just remember that.
Another excellent piece by Clarice Feldman today. In addition to its title story, Jennder and other confusions Ms. Feldmann covers a range of important stories that the MSM is too busy to report on. But first the story that is on every American’s mind thanks to the lame-stream media. Feldman writes:
Bruce Jenner’s decision to take hormone treatment, wear a wig, call himself Caitlyn, get tarted up and pose in a corset for the cover of Vanity Fair has created a media avalanche,
Feldman goes on to relate the level and preposterous nature of the left’s handling of what from them you would think is the story of the decade. She sums up the nonsense with these comments and a perfect reference, complete with video clip.
Maybe like the People’s Front of Judea dolts in Monty Python’s The Life of Brian the young feminists should all just agree that while men actually can’t have babies no matter their outward appearance, as a symbolic move “against oppression”, these men have the right to have babies or abort the ones they can’t actually have.
You will swear the clip anticipated the inanities we see glorified today.
Clarice goes on to wrap-up the most recent round of truly depressing and scary events. A couple of brief excerpts:
Executive amnesty with benefits, via Instapundit:
The IRS has confirmed to Congress that individuals granted amnesty by President Obama’s unilateral lawmaking ”executive action” will indeed qualify for a refund of back taxes, even if they never filed a tax return:
IRS lawyers have ruled that once illegal immigrants get numbers, they can go back and re-file for up to three previous years’ taxes and claim refunds even for time they were working illegally.
Iran Ignores its obligations . . . Administration doesn’t care
In one of his many emails for The Israel Project Omri Ceren notes that Iran is increasing its enriched uranium stocks and the administration is laughing this off:
On a policy level, the ISIS analysis emphasizes that Iran’s refusal to meet its obligations “show the risk posed by relying on technical solutions that have not yet been demonstrated by Iran.” Tehran is under sanctions and in the middle of negotiations — and still can’t be relied upon. The risks of Iranian intransigence post-sanctions relief are straightforward.
Feds insecure data storage . . . critical information continues to be stolen
Chinese hackers seem to have hacked into Interior Department Office of Personnel management records and stolen three decades of security clearance information (including that of intelligence agents), this is the second known hack of federal records in recent years and though it occurred in December this major security breach was not discovered until April.
Maybe the Jenner story IS the story of the decade in that it suggests what the decade has come to, and what is journalized as important.
DLH
