The editors of the New York Times should be lynched, I say, Lynched!
I note two items from the Oregonian. One was in Saturday’s paper, a round-up of cartoons. If I could find it with a quick google search, I’d post it, but I can’t so a description will have to suffice. An SS Officer was looking over as a New York Times person was holding up a New York Times with the headline “IT’S NORMADY”. The idea is that the New York Times supposedly just tipped off to terrorist networks that the Administration is using SWIFT to follow international money transactions is comprarable to if they had reported that the Allies were planning a huge military offensive at Normady in World War Two. It’s something you’ll hear if you tune your ears on right-wing opinion.
Second is from today’s paper, this letter to the editor laying out the “Loose lips sink ships” idea:
When I was a child between the ages of 4 and 8 years old, during World War II, we were taught a phrase that we were to follow at all times: “Loose lips sink ships.”
Evidently The New York Times editor is too young to remember, or maybe he’s forgotten it. A newspaper is supposed to report the news, not make the news.
STAN FRANKLIN Tigard
I’m a bit at a loss. This is comprarable to some outrage we heard after the vice-presidential debate that John Edwards “outed” Mary Cheney. Mary Cheney was already out. And there is no way in Hell that al Qaeda does not know from SWIFT.
Some partisan battle-lines have been drawn. Vallerie Plame was outed in the media from an approved leak from the Administration. And I’m going to have to dig back to what happened just before the Democratic Convention. Something is preposterously out of whack in the balance of the concerns.