Our frère de blogue from France skewers the NYT for its buttlicking, Euro-worshipping fiction about “eliminating poverty and homelessness in France”:
The New York Times looks with glassy eyed idealism at France the way a Dachshund adores it’s master. At the same time, France looks at Americans the way a cat looks at it’s “human companionâ€: as a gullible meal ticket.
In 2004, an NYT writer went so far as to say that the French state eliminated homelessness, and that if you did see panhandlers and people living under bridges, that they were Polish. Not from anywhere else, not the benighted French, but Polish. As statistically impossible as that is, the reality of street life disproved that insane assertion. There are (and were) street people all over the place. They are more aggressive and carry themselves with a more miserable air than any crazy person that New York City’s Social Workers can talk in from the cold. Quite simply, they lied.
No! Not liberal journalists at the NYT, the newspaper of record! Lied? How can starry-eyed writers lie? I’m crushed!
Read the whole thing. It’s well worth it.
The Coffeespy » From the Horse’s Mouth says:
[…] Heh, I need to read other blogs while I’m posting… Right Wing Nation, who I’m now going to link to twice in two days, was giving the finger to the NYTimes while I was busy mooning the Boston Globe above. Every time I read something like this I wonder what Joseph Rago was thinking. With ghosts like Jamail Hussein and the disinformation armada working to confuse the populace, how can the necessity of blogs be discounted? […]
January 4, 2007, 11:45 am