Quote of the day
posted at 10:32 pm on January 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
“The marriage of the Times’ flag and Obama’s silhouette was jarring. One guest remarked that the poster looked like something put out by Pravda — state-run liberal media…
Hence the party. But for a paper with the Times’ long-held journalistic values, hosting a party for a political candidate is far from seemly. ‘I don’t know how to explain it,’ one Times staffer said. ‘I don’t know what the thinking was.’”
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disgusting, and par for the course.
homesickamerican on January 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Great quote!
Weight of Glory on January 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM
His celebrity, and power to inspire the audience, is even a profit center — selling papers — at a moment when the paper must find new ways to market itself and make money.
Even for the most anti-capitalist paper in the country, it’s still all about the bottom line.
Tony737 on January 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Indeed, Lenin II
Entelechy on January 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
So…who was that Mexican billionaire who just bailed out the Grey
Ladywhore?Probably a fan of Diego Rivera, who would have loved this latest art form…
coldwarrior on January 22, 2009 at 10:41 PM
The Times is trying to make a buck off Obama, knowing the Mexican acquisition vulture money will eventually dry up.
When the Times eventually goes begging to Uncle Sam for survival money, I hope someone reminds them of the Constitutionally defined separation of News and State, and the Feds should no more bail them out than they would bail out the Catholic Church.
Suck it, NY Times
Kenrod on January 22, 2009 at 10:41 PM
This is an insult to former Pravda.
mugged on January 22, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Dissent is STILL patriotic! Pass it on.
deewhybee on January 22, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Oh, I do know…
PattyJ on January 22, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Guess you didn’t get that memo…sub para 3, in that second executive order Obama signed today, makes dissent a crime punishable by no less than five years or $50k. /s
coldwarrior on January 22, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Shocked? Not me? At least they’re not trying to hide it anymore!
Y’all see the UFO that flew over DC after the Immaculation? I’m sure it was an angel… *ahem*.
SouthernGent on January 22, 2009 at 10:47 PM
ROFLMAO
Do I have to go any further? Is there more?
Why yes. This sounds like a great idea.
We can do this. Put up swag, party for Obama, sell the sh*^T at three times what it costs, and put the money in your/our/my pocket.
Yes We Can!.
Skandia Recluse on January 22, 2009 at 10:47 PM
We are going to see Pinch Sulzberger head coming out of Obama’s mouth because he is so far up Obama’s…well you know.
Mr. Joe on January 22, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I, for one, am very frightened about the possibilities here. Clearly, the press, led by NYT, and many on the left have socialist designs on Obama. This, plus the cult of personality they crafted together, lead to a mimicry of Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, and on and on.
One common denominator of all the aforementioned was a policy of persecution of the Jews. How far are Obama and his handlers willing to take this?
stonemeister on January 22, 2009 at 10:51 PM
At 14% interest I’m thinking Tony Montana.
thomasaur on January 22, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Yeah, but are they going to be selling Inauguration kitsch a year from now? I doubt it. Let ‘em dream on.
ddrintn on January 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM
The MSM was more in the tank for the idiot messiah than Pravda ever was for the party or any member of it. The only comparison is the North Korean press, which happily reported that Kim Jung Il shot a 36 on his first round of golf (mostly holes in one and two). I still have faith that the MSM would only report the idiot messiah as having shot around a 52.
And this only gets worse, as the MSM went all-in with their propaganda, so they can never pull out and report the truth about their beloved retard, since that will expose all of their under-handed lies that were promulgated for the campaign.
progressoverpeace on January 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
All the propaganda that’s fit to print.
jgapinoy on January 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM
All the propaganda that’s print to fit…seems more appropriate.
coldwarrior on January 22, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Wow….
Just..wow..
Jesus H. Christ….
BigWyo on January 22, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Did they all get the Sphincter Brown Lip Balm in their press kits, too?
To simulate the fervant ass-kissing look that is so in right now?
Along with their new motto:
All The News That’s Fit To Praise Obama.
profitsbeard on January 22, 2009 at 10:58 PM
lemmings
gatorboy on January 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM
“Now can we have a newspaper bailout, Mr Obama, sir?”
jgapinoy on January 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM
The New York Times is way behind. England had two daily rags that only published Labour Party propaganda many years ago. (Sun and Daily Mirror). Obviously, I have ignored the tribune.
OldEnglish on January 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Sadly, I trust the NYT more than I do Osama Obama.
And I don’t truth the Times at all.
How in God’s name can we survive four years of this bullsh!t?
MrScribbler on January 22, 2009 at 11:11 PM
That’s sarcasm…isn’t it?
jgapinoy on January 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Ha! This is the same NYTs that decided to boycott the WH Correspondent’s dinner so they couldn’t be used in Politician’s propaganda.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
MayBee on January 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Don’t type when you’re really angry, folks.
MrScribbler on January 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Why not celebrate? Their candidate did win, you know.
/sarc
cs89 on January 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM
As much as I hate to say it, this country really needs to go through a severe depression.
This may sound harsh, but look on the bright side. Think of all of these simpering LibTard bastards actually having to deal with an honest to God life or death crisis. Not the ‘OMG!! I can’t afford my $7 coffee this morning’ crisis. I think an ‘Damn, I’m not going to be able to eat anything this week unless I can do something useful’ type thing.
I don’t know if you can actually die from just laying down and peeing all over yourself, but I’m really keen to see if it can happen.
A cleansing is in order.
BigWyo on January 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I think what’s needed is for the public to get a good heaping helping of Democrat rule for a while. The only problem is, while conservatism will rebound (inevitbaly, I think), this bunch of idiots is going to do so much damage, it may take a couple of centuries to clean up. If ever.
ddrintn on January 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
* inevitably, good Lord.
ddrintn on January 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
progressoverpeace on January 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
You are forgetting that the American public, especially in NY, have very short memories. In fact you can compare it to the a computer memory refresh cycle, when the power is turned off the data is lost. The public goes to sleep and wakes up to a brand new world every day.
As much as I would like to see the NYT roll over like a dead cockroach, it won’t. There are just too many RICH liberals that couldn’t live without the daily dose of affirming propaganda from the Times to let that happen. They need tangible reassurance that their mantra is still being sung.
belad on January 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
MSM
Marxist Socialist Media!
canopfor on January 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM
“One guest remarked that the poster looked like something put out by Pravda — state-run liberal media…”
You don’t say.
New to the country, are you?
Welcome aboard astute one.
You should see what they’re teaching impressionable youth in THOUSANDS of schools all across the country.
artist on January 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Just like the shot of the White House press room. This isn’t an objective press; it’s a bunch of giddy high school girls thronging their latest celebrity crush.
/apologies to giddy high school girls; they probably eclipse the IQ of these so-called journalists by at least 50 points
AZfederalist on January 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM
…………. yeah, you could say so.
Seven Percent Solution on January 22, 2009 at 11:33 PM
I agree with you, which is why I said that this only gets worse. My point on the MSM having committed themselves fully to the idiot messiah. There is no turning back for them, not that they want to (quite the opposite) but they just couldn’t, anyway.
You are certainly correct about people’s lack of memory these days. I have noted before that it is strange that, the easier and cheaper it is to record things and the more prolific the recordings, the less people seem to remember – though everything is available for later use, eventually.
But things like what the idiot messiah is going to do to Israel will, someday, clash with the tape still being held by the LA Times and, at some point, that will become an issue. The funny thing about idiots without memories is that they get really ticked off when their stupidity is thrown in their faces in such a way that they can’t deny it. No one likes being played for a fool, not even the suicidal morons. They want to die, and they want everyone who looks like them or reminds them of themselves or their family to die, too, but they don’t want to be embarrassed. The thought of embarrassment scares them more than anything, which is why they work so hard to get society to accept as “normal” their truly embarrassing ideas and proclivities. Once people start laughing at them, they are finished, and they know this.
progressoverpeace on January 22, 2009 at 11:36 PM
By the way………..
……….. didn’t the NYTimes just take a mordida from the George Soros of Mexico?
Seven Percent Solution on January 22, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Crying laughing. The paper which fought for Duranty’s Pulitzer and downplayed the Holocaust. If a million or more people are going to die, you know the NYT will be driving the train.
Beagle on January 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM
I’m sorry. I don’t get it. He doesn’t inspire me. In fact his speeches are starting to annoy me with the fake black preacher lilt and all that crap…
“Just words.”
NO $HIT!!
D2Boston on January 22, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Well, they obviously weren’t thinking about giving credit where credit is do. Don’t you just hate it when people rip you off like that?
PootyPoot on January 22, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Jesus Hussein Christ
SPCOlympics on January 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM
I think Obama is just plain stupid. How did we elect ch a stupid man?
I plan on harping on this with all my lib friends, they pulled this stuff with Bush. Turnabout time
clnurnberg on January 23, 2009 at 12:13 AM
“the new era in politics and to allude to [the] time of Kennedy when the nation seemed to have a similar sense of hope and excitement”
How stupid is this person? Do liberals forget that it’s Kennedy that got us neck-deep into Vietnam? Do they forget the Bay of Pigs or the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do they forget the anger and division and violence that was the ’60s? That our enemies around the world grew stronger as we grew weaker and more divided? That an
All of that Kennedy “hope and excitement” was followed by a decade of reality repeatedly slapping America in the face.
29Victor on January 23, 2009 at 12:14 AM
All this talk of “we have to unite behind the President” and “Give him a chance first before you criticize” is such a crock. What they are really saying is, “we won and now you need to play by our rules and play nice — those rules have never applied to us”
Anybody else remember the stupid “We’re so sorry” web page after Bush was elected? All these libtards with little cheesy signs saying, “It’s not our fault, we didn’t vote for him”. Libtard Sorry World Now, it’s all sweetness and light and they want to hang with world: Hang with the world
… and they weren’t any more willing to give him a chance in 2000 — remember all the “selected not elected” and “Not MY president”? Hypocrites
AZfederalist on January 23, 2009 at 12:30 AM
We may not like Obama, and recognize the disaster (at best) of his policies, if implemented…but we cannot gain any influence by name calling or griping. We do not “own” any communication system. We cannot barrage the populace with repetitive phrases or misinformation, nor can we have a news blackout of information we do not wish to be learned (such as any good news during the Iraq war, or Obama’s background).
We MUST organize and take coordinated control of some form of mass media. If not, we’re all doomed to a path to socialism and totalitarianism. Plain and simple
stonemeister on January 23, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Hey, I know a way the NYT can market itself better and make more money: Stop hiring hacks and fiction writers with an unabashed left-wing agenda and actually — wait for it — publish a NEWSPAPER! A novel idea, no? Having honest-to-goodness trained professional journalists who might actually be capable of setting their personal convictions aside in order to fairly report a story. If such a thing exists of course. Real journalists may be as mythical as unicorns. But Obama’s handing those out to every American so I don’t see what we can’t come up with some real newspaper reporters too.
It’s just laughable to me that these news outlets are all left scratching their proverbial heads wondering where their audience/readers have all gone. Someone needs to clue these folks in that there’s a whooooooole lotta United States in between New York/Washington and Los Angeles.
As for Kennedy: A mediocre president in actual fact who was only elevated to cult status because he was shot in the head. Isn’t the marketing department at the Times making a political statement by claiming the last time Americans felt a sense of hope about their future was when Kennedy was in office? Cuz I don’t know about y’all, but the last time *I* felt that way, it was Morning in America. ;)
NoLeftTurn on January 23, 2009 at 12:47 AM
The Democratic/Media complex at it again.
blatantblue on January 23, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Or the auto industry, ect., ect., ect..
Johan Klaus on January 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Or they could start putting a page 3 girl in every issue. They’d get more respect….
SPCOlympics on January 23, 2009 at 1:03 AM
All the news that’s fit… for Fishwrap
FlatFoot on January 23, 2009 at 1:30 AM
New Yarns Today
Limerick on January 23, 2009 at 1:46 AM
Everyone needs to calm down and take a deep breath. The wait won’t be long until the real show starts. The NYT just took out a loan at the loanshark rate of 14%. Given their circulation and bottom line figures it won’t be long until some Mexican drug lords are dispached to do some knee-capping because of missed payments.
Consider where the times is today. A looming meltdown of their new benefactor, Mexico. Probable further drops in ad and circulation revenue. All their eggs in one politician’s basket. The ending for this story could be an epic.
Yoop on January 23, 2009 at 2:02 AM
“Journalistic Values” at the Times are gone, there are none to be found and perhaps there were never any values anyway.
A tabloid rag it will become, found either in supermarket checkout lines, or oblivion.
Who knows?
Maybe the Mexican Pesos will drive it to use real limes on tacos like truth on journalism. Instead of using substitutes to the real deal. It’s a matter of taste and right now, the Times uses artificial ingredients.
Values? Like vinegar loves oil.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 3:08 AM
Kinky!
Nite all. Still searching for that unicorn poop in my backyard.
Limerick on January 23, 2009 at 3:12 AM
If anyone needs any proof that the NYT has jumped the shark… I can’t wait for them go to bankrupt. In fact, the day they do I think I will drive up from DC, stand outside their offices with a big sign that says “Ha Ha, Traitors!” and weep for joy.
nemecizer on January 23, 2009 at 4:38 AM
The NYT isn’t like Pravda…The Gray Lady peddles her ass to the state for free.
Lehosh on January 23, 2009 at 5:08 AM
Just think of it………..
………. you put $250 million into the NY Times to buy propaganda and influence, then……….
nobody reads your piece of sh&t paper!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seven Percent Solution on January 23, 2009 at 5:10 AM
It’s all about “Designer Ego”.
The guy who did the graphic of the red & blue Obama is getting a lot of cred for helping to get the guy elected. The guy who did the design for the Obama campaign (see: beautiful rip-off of Cuyahoga County Electoral board ‘wavy red and white fields with a blue sky’ scenic graphic) is going to go down in designer history as being “the One” who designed IT.
SO, that’s all this is: The NYT designers, trying to get some love from ‘proud papa democratic leadership’ for their design.
You can bet your foot this graphic has been emailed more than actually admired, and used before a single thought was given to it from within an echo chamber the size of the New, York, TIMES.
The NEW building, that broke them. Not the old one that they ran their very SELVES out of.
:)
(Note the style of the grin in my cool “:)” graphic above…)
ChipDWood on January 23, 2009 at 6:18 AM
do they ever get that they have become a caricature of themselves?
rob verdi on January 23, 2009 at 6:26 AM
From LGF:
Nice.
moxie_neanderthal on January 23, 2009 at 6:29 AM
If those “rich liberals” have not stepped up by now to save this rag (and a host of others) it ain’t gonna happen. It’s typical liberal crap, they preach how important something is and how it must be preserved but they never pull a dime out of their own personal pocket. They’ll be backing a taxpayer bailout, but the rich liberals aren’t stupid, they want to keep their own money, not invest in a dying business model.
Tim Zank on January 23, 2009 at 6:57 AM
Here’s the problem with that thinking…
You’re underestimating the Power of the Fourth Estate.
During the ’30′s and into the ’40′s, through 12 years of the deep economic calamity and hardship, Democrats were able to hang onto power by convincing the masses, they were being done a favor, and that all their troubles were caused by the “evil republicans.”
There are Senior Citizens, to this very day, who will swear, FDR was an economic genius… Nevermind, the reality of high rates of unemployment, and poverty.
It won’t matter how bad it gets, if the Fourth Estate chooses to put a Happy-Face on the situation… Any little small success will be put Front and Center, and the failures will be on the back page.
Perception is the name of the game.
franksalterego on January 23, 2009 at 7:11 AM
franksalterego is dead right. Even worse, something more insidious could be happening. Dick Morris is running around like the guy in the original pod movie warning that The One and the elected pork tossing Democrats are using the stimulus package to plant socialism. I don’t know how successful the stimulus based socialism will be but I do know that blaming Republicans was so successful in the 1930s that my father nearly got killed trying to tell a crowd that FDR was doing the wrong thing. The gang also got FDR a long tenure, wouldn’t you say? And today, FDR is still used as a benchmark of Presidential greatness.
IlikedAUH2O on January 23, 2009 at 7:40 AM
Info about the Carlos Slim/NYT deal:
Doesn’t explain why he did it. Perhaps he’s throwing good money after bad. Perhaps he knows it’s only a matter of time before the Sulzbergers have to cry uncle, and he wants to be the one to take over ownership and control. The name alone is worth quite a bit I would think.
JiangxiDad on January 23, 2009 at 7:55 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
You a funny man, AP.
Kafir on January 23, 2009 at 8:11 AM
So with prime loan interest rates of 3.9 percent in the US, the NYSlimes pays nearly 15 percent to a foreign loan shark. Mexican loan sharks doing the work that mafia loan sharks won’t do? I find it puzzling that the NYSlimes would lecture anyone on economic policies when their own economic house is falling apart and the manner of their economic solutions is abysmal.
As for the Obama party, the NYSlimes staffer who is shocked and dismayed must have been living in a dunghill for the past twenty odd years. Also curious is the fact that the Slimes is merchandising Obama products. Does Obama or the taxpayer get a piece of that action, if not, why not? Isn’t that part of the sacrifice that the Slimes’ President is calling for?
eaglewingz08 on January 23, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Reminds me of a story I read about Barry during the primaries, about how he’d taken audio tapes of “Reverend” Wright’s sermons with him to law school so he could listen to them and learn to mimic his speaking style.
Barry is the ultimate triumph of style over substance. A guy who deliberately packaged and marketed himself to appeal to the idiots among us. Unfortunately, the idiots far outnumber the rest of us, and they now have their idol in the White House.
AZCoyote on January 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM
I have been saying:
Idiocracy
We seem to be living the Movie.
Gotta go to work. Do we still have to work? Pay bills? I guess I’ll be on the safe side…
IlikedAUH2O on January 23, 2009 at 9:10 AM
That’s because that’s almost what it is.
Aronne on January 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM
So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.
BohicaTwentyTwo on January 23, 2009 at 9:21 AM
I’m surprised anyone at the party was surprised. All this time they really didn’t think they were slanted and in the bag for Obama? That’s hilarious.
JeffinOrlando on January 23, 2009 at 9:32 AM
That may be the only way it can die.
Aronne on January 23, 2009 at 9:35 AM
What are you talking? It was a giant piece of cake! As in “let them eat cake.”
You know, the NYT used to have a slogan (little remembered) “We don’t make the news, we print it.” But at a certain point they had to contract out the publishing of the paper, and so their slogan changed to “We don’t print the news, we make it.” /kidding
Ahh the Grey Lady. Once a paragon of excellence, now it’s (to paraphrase Roxy Roller), “Down between the seats she’s got bubblegum on her knees.”
Now the “news cycle” had become a “circle jerk.”
smellthecoffee on January 23, 2009 at 9:54 AM
has become
smellthecoffee on January 23, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Just the beginning folks…just the beginning…
right2bright on January 23, 2009 at 11:09 AM
it’s all about hopenchangey feelings.
kirkill on January 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM
A staffer who has, obviously, NOT been reading his/her own newspaper.
Blaise on January 23, 2009 at 11:50 AM
How long will it take Pinch to run thru that $250 million? Must be a real good deal to invest in the NYT’s……….
14 percent interest? I’m sure Pinch’s family is very happy with their current stock value.
GarandFan on January 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM
You have to learn MSM-speak. “Maintaining objectivity” in this case means “we showed commendable restraint in not comparing Obama to God. Today only, though.”
ddrintn on January 23, 2009 at 5:32 PM