« Salvia, Schizophrenia and Psychopaths | Main | This Just In: Krugman Erupts in Rage Over Hatred »
January 17, 2011
Times' gangrene spreads to head
P. J. O'Rourke notes the disease has progressed in The Times Loses ItIn the matter of self-serving, bitter, calculated cynicism, there wouldn’t seem to be much left to prove against the Times. Judging by what I’ve heard from my fellow conservatives, the issue is decided. The New York Times is a worthless, truthless, vicious institution. But I disagree. I think things are worse than that.
A reaction so disproportionate and immaterial to a news story by a news organization is indicative of trouble in the body politic—trouble almost as severe as that which the Times claims the Giffords shooting indicates. I worry that in the tremors and hysteria of the Times we’re seeing the sad end of liberalism.
.... But liberalism, as personified by the New York Times, became a dotty old aunt sometime during the Johnson administration. She’s provincial, eccentric, and holds dull, peculiar views about the world. Still, she has our fond regard, and we visit her regularly in her nursing home otherwise known as Arts and Leisure and the Book Review. Or we did until Sunday, January 9, when she began spouting obscenities and exposing herself.
Posted by Vanderleun at January 17, 2011 9:54 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.