Posted by
Thomas D Clarke on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:00:00 PM
Normally, I would not be in agreement with the New York Times. But the events of my work day today were not ordinary. A few runs before I had a pickup from the Times building on 8th Avenue, I received a free newspaper. The person who was passing out the papers claimed it was the NY Times. But then I looked at the date (July 4, 2009), and the headlines. It was obvious this was a liberal dream newspaper. The front page story about the unilateral US pullout in Iraq was bad enough. The other stories were worse- "Maximum Wage Law Succeeds" (p. A10), Nationalized Oil To Fund Climate Change Efforts (p. A5), Ru-486 Sales Approved by FDA (p. A2), Bush to Face High Treason Charges (p. A5) and perhaps the most odious, a story on page A11 that claimed that Senator John McCain was writing a bill that would impose jail time on all shareholders of any company found guilty of criminal action.
I suspected the newspaper was phony. My business trip to the New York Times (which had nothing to do with the phony paper) confirmed it. I found out from Times Security that the liberal fanatics behind the phony paper I received were illegally using the Times's identity (as well as those of the Heritage Foundation, Exxon-Mobil, GM, and HSBC) to try to make their smear sheet appear real. But the politics in that paper were so radical that even the liberal New York TImes wants nothing to do with this phony paper. I gave one of my copies to Times Security. The other copy was used for the page numbers referenced here.
I don't know who was really behind this smear sheet. I know the Times's lawyers would like to find out who printed it. And now I have a printed copy of what the left really wants to do- lose in Iraq, impose a 200% gasoline tax, remove cars from all streets in Manhattan, execute Bush for their flimsy definition of war crimes, imprison shareholders of any company they don't like, and hamper any chance Obama has of providing tax relief or national defense.
I will admit that some companies have done criminal actions, and that some (especially GE, Planned Parenthood, and Microsoft) should go out of business. But to ask for anyone who owns shares in those companies to go to jail for what those companies have done? That is beyond insanity. Currently, the only member of my family involved in the stock market would be my 16 year old niece Allie. She has a trust fund full of various stocks that my father set up for her before he died in 1995. If anyone thinks it is a benevolent idea for my teenaged niece to go to jail for the crimes of one of the companies in a trust fund she has no control over and cannot even access before 2013, then maybe I should introduce them to the baseball bat I keep in the trunk of my car.
The radical left needs to be stopped. But right now the only ones who can do anything about it are the liberal media and our new liberal President. But if even they are appalled by the radical left's agenda, then maybe there is hope.