Re: Bush goes after The New York Times

gfys wrote:
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:38:10 -0700, nick c <n-chen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

gfys wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:20:52 -0700, "Barbara Lake" <bglake@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"nick c" <n-chen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gPSdnUqU09aS2TXZnZ2dnUVZ_qydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
gfys wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:37:56 -0400, trudogg <trudogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:36:12 -0400, "Allan Smith"
<netsmith@(wherever).com> wrote:

I truly don't see what the flap is all about, other than election-year politics.

Anyone who thinks the terrorist's financial operations didn't already know the transactions were being monitored is serously underestimating their sophistication, IMO. And it is is unwise to underestimate an adversary's intelligence and awareness.

Certainly, I never doubted it, and that doesn't apply just to interantional transactions. Anyone who thinks certain domestic transactions (depending on either source or amount) aren't also being monitored is naive.
...it's amusing and more than a little hypocritical to have Bush and
Cheney calling the NYT "treasonous" for stating the obvious, like you
observered.
Why did they leave out the LA Times & Wall Street Journal? They
printed the same story.
I'm guessing the reason being there were face to face meetings with the Times Editor but there were no (known) meetings with the editors of the other papers. Consider the LA Times and the New York Times to be sort of kissing cousins whereas the Wall Street Journal may have considered the story important news to those engaged in general financial circles.

An interesting observation is the New York Time Editor was being interviewed on the tele and he claimed to have printed the story because "the people have a right to know." Well, a recent opinion poll taken produced an overwhelming opinion of the people who think the New York Times Editor should be tried for a treasonous act.
Yes, a poll was taken. A very conservative news "pundit" asked the question of his equally conservative viewers: On the June 26 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, host Joe Scarborough asked his viewers to take part in an online poll asking, "Should The New York Times be prosecuted for publishing stories revealing secret information about the war on terror?

This is hardly an across-the-board opinion by a majority of citizens, or even a majority of conservatives, just Joe Scarborough's viewers.

Barbara

Your right. They have no clue as to what they say.
The bell tolls for thee too, fella. <g>

Shows what you know. I keep up with current events & know who took
what poll. <grin>

The bell _still_ tolls for thee. Your reply to Barb indicates you too would be clueless 'cause you would disallow the consensus opinion of the populace merely because a talk show asked the populace to phone in their opinions.

In some respects, when compared with a formal opinion poll system, which controls the rules of responding by asking questions that lead to getting desired responses, the Joe Scarborough opinion poll may carry more merit than a formal poll.



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