We have a New "Paper of Record"
Filed under: US Elections
For my money, if there be such an animal, the nation's "paper of record" is the Washington Post, not the New York Times. Case in point:
On Monday morning, WaPo exposed Nancy Pelosi's green-hued fraud:
In November, the Democratic-led House spent about $89,000 on so-called carbon offsets. This purchase was supposed to cancel out greenhouse-gas emissions from House buildings -- including half of the U.S. Capitol -- by triggering an equal reduction in emissions elsewhere. Some of the money went to farmers in North Dakota, for tilling practices that keep carbon buried in the soil. But some farmers were already doing this, for other reasons, before the House paid a cent. Other funds went to Iowa, where a power plant had been temporarily rejiggered to burn more cleanly. But that test project had ended more than a year before the money arrived. "It didn't change much behavior that wasn't going to happen anyway," said Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who writes a blog calling for more aggressive action on climate change. "It just, I think, demonstrated why offsets are controversial and possibly pointless. . . . This is a waste of taxpayer money."
The Post has also reported a major story on Russian dissident Oleg Kozlovsky, drafted into the army to silence him; the NYT has ignored both events.
Indeed, it seems that the Very Gray Lady had abandoned all pretense of objectivity and become an openly partisan screed no different than the Daily Kos. Rivaling the DK in blatant, seething hatred of America, it has been prominently touting for days on the same website a lengthy anti-American diatribe in its magazine, complete with multiple photographs of a tiiiiiiiiiny little America.
Could it be that the Times is trying a little misdirection, so we won't notice who's really got so tiny all of a sudden?
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