Heh:
As noted yesterday, unhinged lefties who read the New York Times are ready to lynch Bill Kristol. But they and the paper’s ombudsman have nothing to say–nada–about the clear conflict of interests of liberal Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse.
The name should ring a bell. In 1989, a year in which she wrote two dozen stories about abortion, Greenhouse marched in an abortion-rights rally in Washington. She wasn’t covering it. She was a participant–despite the paper’s ethics policy banning political activism by its journalists. In June 2006, she delivered a left-wing diatribe at Harvard ripping the Bush administration and conservatives, lamenting that “our government had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule of law and toward creating law-free zones at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, and other places around the world. And let’s not forget the sustained assault on women’s reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalism.â€Â
And now? Now, NRO’s Ed Whelan has uncovered Greenhouse’s unethical failure to disclose that her lawyer husband, Eugene Fidell, has been filing amicus briefs for Gitmo detainees. In other words, he has been actively participating in the same cases that Greenhouse was reporting on–and neither she nor the paper informed readers.
UPDATE: Wake me up when E&P publish their scathing critique.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 1/15 @ 10:21 am #
Her name’s really Greenhouse? That’s really unfortunate. Funny, but unfortunate.
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/15 @ 10:24 am #
Her name’s really Grindhouse, but they changed it.
Comment by Moron Pundit on 1/15 @ 11:00 am #
First, Grindhouse was like a shotgun full of handjobs.
Secondly.
Dan, I’ve had it. I’m done with you implying that the media is biased. There is absolutely NO EVIDENCE ANYWHERE to suggest such a ridiculous theory.
Oh, and the Packers still suck. Wait, that’s what I wish they did. So confusing on the pain meds.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/15 @ 11:36 am #
“And let’s not forget the sustained assault on women’s reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalism”
Yep. The unhinged left in one sentence.
Comment by JD on 1/15 @ 11:46 am #
“And let’s not forget the sustained assault on women’s reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalismâ€Â
When asked for evidence of said assertion, the lobotomized cranium of the barking moonbat was entered into evidence. And, datadave. And, Kyoto.
It is not bias or a conflict of interest when done in service of Teh Narrative.
Comment by Matt, Esq. on 1/15 @ 11:53 am #
Its news that NY Times writers are unprincipled schills and the paper covers up for them.
SHOCKING I TELL YOU SHOCKING
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/15 @ 12:07 pm #
Women’s reproductive freedom? WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHT OF MEN TO GET ABORTIONS!!!111!!
Comment by MarkD on 1/15 @ 12:19 pm #
I’m too lazy to look, but their stock price at one time reflected the value of the NYT building and the land it was on. In other words, the newspaper business itself was worthless.
If that’s true, it’s still overvalued.
Comment by steve on 1/15 @ 12:26 pm #
oh, i get it: Bill’s absurd calls for prosecution and incompetent analysis track-record are somehow justified because some other idiot writing in the same paper didn’t disclose something she should’ve.
The Great Race to the Bottom continues, unabated.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/15 @ 12:50 pm #
Oh, look! One of the unhinged!
Comment by McGehee on 1/15 @ 12:53 pm #
Um, no steve. The point is not that Kristol is somehow exonerated because of the Gr***house loon. The point is that the Kristol-lynching moonbats consider the Gr***house loon unremarkable even before Kristol was there to exonerate her.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/15 @ 1:27 pm #
That’s not an ethical failure, that’s flatout corrupt and a perversion of journalism. Is this really her? OMG.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/15 @ 1:45 pm #
I mean, how dare Kristol assert that someone be prosecuted for leaking classified information.
happyfeet, that’s so not cool. not sure why she’d be worried about reproductive rights.
which is why they prosecuted and convicted Lyndy England and her friends.. oh wait…
I’m so not gonna make it through this year completely sane.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/15 @ 1:50 pm #
Don’t worry; we’ll all be there with you.
Comment by JD on 1/15 @ 1:59 pm #
I’m so not gonna make it through this year completely sane.
It is like they are intent on dragging eveyone down to their level.
steve - Despite completely missing the point, you seem positively brilliant in comparison to the likes of timmah and datadave.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/15 @ 2:01 pm #
Great comment, maggie. You hit the nail on the head. It had me, both laughing and crying, out loud.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/15 @ 2:05 pm #
yay!?
Comment by Pablo on 1/15 @ 2:12 pm #
Anyone got a spare Makita battery? I need to bore some holes deep, deep into my eyeballs.
Comment by JD on 1/15 @ 2:39 pm #
Maggie - A sad, depressing, prescient, and spot-on assessment.
And, fuck off timmah.
Comment by steve on 1/15 @ 4:15 pm #
“I mean, how dare Kristol assert that someone be prosecuted for leaking classified information.”
The use of SWIFT had been mentioned in public many times. To criticize the NYT for making it more commonly known is warranted. to bring up the specter of imprisoning members of the press is either an attempt at intimidation or pathetic pandering to the likes of y’all.
JD - do you know what prescient means?
Comment by Squid on 1/15 @ 4:36 pm #
to bring up the specter of imprisoning members of the press is either an attempt at intimidation or pathetic pandering to the likes of y’all.
Or, perhaps, it’s an attempt to make the editors and publishers think a little more carefully about publishing sensitive national security information the next time a disgruntled political appointee decides to take it upon himself to embarrass his bosses by leaking secrets to sympathetic buddies in the press.
Just perhaps.
Comment by Squid on 1/15 @ 4:39 pm #
(Or, perhaps, it really is just pandering, in which case Kristol is merely upholding the finest traditions of the NYT.)
Comment by JD on 1/15 @ 4:44 pm #
steve - Yes. look it up if you do not understand. Maggie made a statement that tracks with how many of us see this playing out, going forward.
Steve - Do you know how to tie your shoes?
Comment by JD on 1/15 @ 5:45 pm #
Ah, I see, steve … loafers.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/15 @ 6:01 pm #
you have citations for that steve?
Comment by JD on 1/15 @ 6:04 pm #
Maggie - Facts, schmacts. You know they simply assert it long enough to make their fellow travelers believe it.
Comment by Major John on 1/15 @ 10:03 pm #
“UPDATE: Wake me up when E&P publish their scathing critique.”
Set your alarm clock for 2026, Mr. Dan Van Winkle.
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