Track-A-’Crat: The Roll Call of Democratic Delinquency

Believe it or not, that’s the title from the piece in The New York Times that’s doing its best to make me gag.

(Though if the NYT really wants to see how it’s done, they should emulate Newsweek or TIME.)

It concerns an exhibition of photographs taken when Obama was an undergraduate and is open, just in case you haven’t had enough of him already, through July 18 at the M+B Gallery in Los Angeles.

Once again, the media is restrained in its worship, going only so far as to state that,

“The best thing about Mr. Obama’s appearance is how streamlined and effortless he makes looking good seem.”

Which, compared to this, really is the least amount of praise permitted by the Obama administration.

Though it goes unmentioned in the article, this is another small step towards ensuring that every city in America concurrently has some exhibition/youth camp/whatever in constant honor of The One.

And the desired end goal?

C’mon, now.

It’s not hard to imagine.

When he’s not eating (and I can’t imagine that leaves too much time leftover), Alec Baldwin apparently likes to pick up the NYT.  And carry it.  And sometimes even read it.

He has a piece in the Huff n’ Puff today, and it’s clearly only there because of his celebrity status.  It cannot be because of his writing skills.

Using short sentences every so often is an effective way of adding impact to what you’re writing.

But using short sentences for every sentence means that you’re not very clever.  At all.  Bearing in mind that this piece was probably the culmination of weeks, if not months, of strenuous concentration, let’s be generous of spirit and give Alec an A for effort.

Bill Keller, executive editor of the NYT, needs to get out more.

Sudan, and Darfur more specifically, would be a good place to start.

In an email to POLITICO, he wrote that “saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”

Talk about a massively exaggerated sense of self.

Hate to burst your bubble, Bill, but there’s a slight difference the two.  It has something to do with starvation, rape, induced famine, torture, murder, ethnic cleansing – genocide, in short.

Tragic though it is that the dead tree press has lined up its own coffin through overt bias, it doesn’t quite rank alongside Darfur yet.

Give it some time, though, and who knows?

Trying to understand this is making my brain hurt, but the NYT has done something not loathsome for once.

Far from it, in fact.

They have admonished Speaker Pelosi, clearly and unequivocally, for refusing to push for an ethics inquiry into the PMA Group.

While glad that the NYT has shown itself to be capable of slightly more objectivity than, say, trade unions, this is also dislodging my carefully constructed political outlook.

It goes like this: socialists and supporters = bad; conservatives and supporters = good.

And to think some people accuse me of not thinking through the issues deeply enough.

Some things are just intuitive.

You don’t have to think about breathing (at least, I hope you don’t), the sky will not fall down and the mainstream media is stunningly liberal and proud of it.

Just to emphasize the third point, RSM at The Other McCain has the dirt on the latest NYT cover-up to be exposed.

Last October, the NYT killed a story that would have established a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign, fearing that it would endanger the success of The One.

Hmm, why would the Obama campaign not want to be associated with ACORN?  Don’t they just fight for the downtrodden and oppressed?

The sooner I can spit on the grave of the mainstream media, the better.

Get ready for this.

Are you ready?

You sure?

Representative Waters helped steered millions of dollars in bailout funds to OneUnited, a bank on whose board her husband served, according to The New York Times.

(Yes, you did read that correctly.  The NYT.  Biggity-biggity-big up, NYT!)

It gets better.  The bank also didn’t appear to satisfy requirements for receiving bailout funds.

Is this a stress test?  Are policians simply trying to see how much democracy can withstand?

What’s happening at the New York Times?

First, David Brooks goes (briefly) rogue, then one of their reporters asks President Obama this.

If I were to repeatedly drink out of public urinals, I would be called “disturbed”, “unwell” or, at most, “challenged.”  A more true label would be, and I think this is the technical term, “mental.”

So if someone thinks of little else other than expanding the scope of the government, increasing federal revenues and spending vast, unaffordable sums, what would you most accurately call that person?

If the shoe fits…

Okay people, nothing to see here, move along.

David has sought forgiveness for his brief blasphemy and has been absolved.

Mercy is indeed twice blest.

Didn’t it feel good, though, David?  For those few, fleeting moments?  Was not having a spine worth it?

And we have decided that what’s most important for you, the plebs, to know today is that President Obama has slightly more gray hair than 44 days ago.

And we will make this groundbreaking story our online headline.

This, now, is a tragedy.  Forget those losing their livlihoods, businesses, healthcare and even lives, let us thank the NYT for reminding us of what really matters: that we don’t let our sympathies for President Obama dwindle.

I’m sure that President Obama is not overly concerned that he may be graying.

And neither should be The New York Times.