Transparency, Or a Case of The Invisible Man?
I have a very intelligent and well educated friend who seems to be suffering from H.I.S. (Head In Sand) syndrome when it comes to Obama. I have been for sometime providing her with the proof of Obama’s duplicity between his words and his deeds as evidenced by his unsavory rise up the ladder of Chicago politics and the Illinois Combine as described by John Kass of The Chicago Tribune Despite my providing many examples, she remains steadfastly wedded to the “image” of Obama that was sold to the public by David Axelrod & Co.
There are several instances of this on F.I.S.A., on accepting public campaign financing, Bi-Partisanship and most egregiously his claim of transparency . Others have already covered Obama’s unwillingness to provide the documentation of his past, such as any of his college or Illinois State Senate records. And much has been made of his reneging on the “sunshine before signing” pledge. But his latest antic may be the finest example yet of the Orwellian nature of this administration.
It centers around his latest embarrassment Vivek Kundra, his appointee (soon to be former appointee now on administrative leave) to the Office of Information & Technology. The technology part might be accurate, on the information side…not so much. In the investigation of a possible connection between Mr. Kundra & Chicago, (shady procurement practices and ghost-payrollers are so Chicago) my web search for Kundra’s bio took me to this little gem on the OI & T website. And poof! Just like that, he’s an unperson. Office of information? Lack thereof is more like it.
Is this transparency, or a case of the “The Invisible Man”?
MJMotley…. damn the links come through! well google Kundra’s bio, it’ll come up.

At 21, Kundra displayed sorry evidence of non-adult, unethical behavior. The fact that he was unaware of the alleged felonies taking place under his current watch raises questions about his fitness as a manager.

the NYTimes is about accurately reporting facts

thanks for a good laugh !

No, and I’m am not Tom Shipley of Brewer and Shipley fame.

dominigan on March 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM

I don’t know, that’s a pretty weak instance of bias.

My point is that you guys trot out maybe a handful of examples of “bias,” but the fact is the paper reports on dozens of stories a day — many of which are sourced here for because of the information they provide.

When it comes down to it, Tucker Carlson is right — the NYTimes is about accurately reporting facts. And 99% of the time, they do that very well. As I said before, I don’t have a problem with criticizing the media. What I have a problem with is creating this NYSlimes narrative in which they are evil liberals who are out to brainwash the nation.

Read most every news story, and they contain straight forward reporting of facts that will information anyone — conservative or liberal — so they can draw their own conclusions on a matter.

The shoplifting incident was first reported on a blog called Hot Air.

Congrats Captain.
The press should show more respect to bloggers like yourself
even if it does expose their ineptness.

Tom_Shipley, you wouldn’t just happen to be related to NYT editorial page editor David Shipley, would you? It’s interesting that the only time you show up here is to defend the MSM and the NYT in particular.

rockmom on March 24, 2009 at 3:05 PM

Well, rockmom, according to a senior, unnamed source, speaking on background, you may be onto something there.

bloggless on March 24, 2009 at 2:39 PM

Good call!

The NYTimes and WaPo are basically insanely jealous that, even if they combined all their assets and sold them, they still wouldn’t be able to buy Google and force the changes on them.
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Techie on March 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM

That’s what the government is for. Why try to pool your money and buy Google when you can spend a lot less on the government to bring them down a notch?

19 year-old drunken frat boy moons sorority house – sex offense

Yeah, that makes sense.

OK, here we go. Today’s NYTimes.

http://www.nytimes.com/

Please go to it and come back with “biased” or poor reporting.

Tom_Shipley on March 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM

Didn’t take long… just went to their lead story…

In 26 paragraphs, 35 sentences quoted so called “experts” that the Government should take over control of private institutions because it can do it so much better.

One sentence stated an opposition idea. And that one sentence… a rehash from Reuters, a 4-word quote…

But Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican minority leader, said the new authority would be “an unprecedented grab of power,” Reuters reported.

35 pro-sentences vs 1 con-sentence with a 4-word quote…

Yeah… no bias here.

“The Hot Air blog wondered if this was the same Kundra nominated by Obama. Wonder no more…”

http://gawker.com/5171500/barack-obamas-cio-a-confessed-thief?skyline=true&s=x

(may not be him, but if the shoe fits…)

Gimme one story they got right in the last, oh, thirty years.

I haven’t bought a newspaper in at least twenty five years. Just my contribution to Darwin’s wonderful selection process. Let the repo-men go to work.

Limerick on March 24, 2009 at 1:37 PM

I’ll give you three.
1. Office of Special Plans
2. Rendition/Secret prisons
3. The Rat with a frezzer full of money.

plays well to the cheap seats

Tom_Shipley on March 24, 2009 at 1:31 PM

I would think that many on here would be willing to wager that, if the trolls are not counted in the formula, the average IQ of HA posters is well above that of Mr. Shipley. The number of college-level degrees, including advanced and PhDs, represented within the population of commentors is impressive. The hard-knocks, working-in-the-real-world knowledge represented here is even more impressive.

I’m not sure if his “cheap seats” comment speaks more to arrogance, ignorance, or jealously. Perhaps a bit of all three?

OK, I may have overreacted slightly (I didn’t originally catch the “I’m kidding” part).

Who the eff are you to come in here and crap on the hosts like that? If you’re so great start your own site. Ed’s one of the hardest working guys in the blogosphere. If you’re such a hot shot get in the game and compete with Hot Air.

[..] ANY jackass can sit there and spout off their opinions on anything.[..]

Tom_Shipley on March 24, 2009 at 1:06 PM

You have certainly proved that.

kahall on March 24, 2009 at 2:02 PM

Pwnage.

[..] ANY jackass can sit there and spout off their opinions on anything.[..]

Tom_Shipley on March 24, 2009 at 1:06 PM

You have certainly proved that.

The Times is probably less trustworthy than PRAVDA.

Even people who don’t care much for political news resent being told what to think and they just avoid that channel. There are less and less places where your intelligence isn’t assaulted continuely.

petunia on March 24, 2009 at 1:33 PM

Well said. I guess the thing is that we (or at least some of us) are not as stupid as they think their education system is making us.

I have to say I haven’t taken newspapers or TV news programs seriously for about 30 years now; the agenda-driving makes me suspicious and skeptical of anything they write or say.