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Posted by Bill Faith on June 28, 2006 at 07:37 AM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

[Via email from Russ, who'll be a valued member of the OLD WAR DOGS team when we open the new site to the public.]

Pounding "Punk" into Pulp

I'm not one to casually call for boycotting nations or corporations who offend my sense of right, wrong or fair play. It's my opinion that if their leadership is going to be responsive at all, that a barrage of angry letters and emails will generally suffice to get their attention. Besides, the economic effects of scattershot boycotts may well be offset by increased support from other groups supportive of what the boycotters perceive to be their misdeeds.

But enough is enough. The New York Times publisher has flipped his exquisitely manicured digit in our national face one time too many. That metrosexual twerp obviously believes he is above the law and the refusal of the Bush administration to pursue legal remedies for repeated violations of our espionage laws could well lead this scofflaw to that belief. But there are laws from which Mr. "Punk" Sulzberger has no immunity: those economic laws that determine the success or failure of his newspaper. A quick look at the paper's stock performance graph here: here shows that the stock price has been steadily declining for the past thirty months and has lost roughly half its value in that time.

In the face of that weakened stock performance, how financially prepared do you suppose the Times would be to face a massive boycott of a few of its biggest advertisers by a very large segment of an American public that is fed up with Sulzberger's total disdain for our laws, our safety and the lives of our troops? Not very is my guess. While I'd rather see "Punk" in the slammer, where metrosexual types are ever so popular, I'd settle for seeing him overthrown by angry shareholders. Yes, I'm aware that his family owns the lion's share of the Class A stock, but even his family doesn't want to see the value of those shares vaporized to complete worthlessness by their spoiled little darling's two-handed flipping of the bird to the American public. So why don't you big dog blogs out there form some sort of loose coalition to pound "Punk" into newspaper pulp with the biggest organized boycott this nation has ever seen? You have readers in the millions and they in turn are networked with millions more; and right now, they're all mad at "Punk." You have research capabilities that could fine-tune and focus such a boycott so as to make it excruciatingly painful and deadly effective to the targeted corporations. You don't need to boycott every advertiser; just pick a couple and make examples of them to demonstrate to the remainder what you are capable of doing, you know, sort of like shooting every tenth prisoner to get the undivided attention of the others.

Best of all, humbling the New York Times would show the "Drive by Media" that, once and for all, we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it any more. It would also bring them face to face with the reality that the blogosphere is a reality with which they must forevermore contend. And think about this because I guarantee you the MSM ownership will: the same companies that are the big-ticket advertisers in the Times are also the deep pockets at other major publications as well as the major television networks. You bloggers won't have to shoot too many prisoners before the mainstream moguls get the message. To borrow a catchphrase from the maggot-infested, long-haired dope-smokin' opposition:

Power to the people! Heh, heh.

Russ Vaughn

Posted by Bill Faith on June 28, 2006 at 02:55 AM in Russ_Vaughn, Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Keller: “Not all of them urged us not to publish.”

Posted by Bill Faith on June 27, 2006 at 02:44 AM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Allah has video and some great links here.

Michelle has a great related post here.

CQ: Bush: NYT 'Disgraceful'

Scott Johnson: The Times and the mob

A word from Lt. Cotton

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Treasury To Keller: "Irresponsable;" Murtha, Kean, Hamilton Intervened.

Video: Tony Snow on the Times’s editorial judgment

Video: CNN interviews Keller about NYT furor

CQ: 9/11 Commission Chairs Asked Keller To Shelve SWIFT Report

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CQ: The Enduring Resolve Of The Gray Lady

Posted by Bill Faith on June 26, 2006 at 03:46 PM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Banking Report:
"Let Me Make It Simple For You Morons"

Hat tip: Allah

Posted by Bill Faith on June 26, 2006 at 03:37 PM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts

WASHINGTON, June 24 — The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States military presence there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September, American officials say.

According to a classified briefing at the Pentagon this week by the commander, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the number of American combat brigades in Iraq is projected to decrease to 5 or 6 from the current level of 14 by December 2007.

[Read on if you must.]

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Michelle has more here, including another great poster contest.

CQ: NYT Reveals Secret Briefing On The Painfully Obvious

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Laughing Wolf comments here.

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Don't miss today's Vent.

Michelle has a great related round-up here.

CQ: Keller Offers Platitudes Rather Than Reasons

Tom Bevan: Should the NY Times Be Prosecuted?

Henry Mark Holzer: INDICTMENT AGAINST THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Keller: If anything, we should probably be blabbing more

Posted by Bill Faith on June 26, 2006 at 10:23 AM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Will Some General Officer Speak Out?

Posted by Bill Faith on June 26, 2006 at 10:11 AM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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The New York Times at War With America
By Michael Barone

Why do they hate us? No, I'm not talking about Islamofascist terrorists. We know why they hate us: because we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, because we refuse to treat women as second-class citizens, because we do not kill homosexuals, because we are a free society.

No, the "they" I'm referring to are the editors of The New York Times.  ...

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Why do they hate us? Why does the Times print stories that put America more at risk of attack? They say that these surveillance programs are subject to abuse, but give no reason to believe that this concern is anything but theoretical. We have a press that is at war with an administration, while our country is at war against merciless enemies. The Times is acting like an adolescent kicking the shins of its parents, hoping to make them hurt while confident of remaining safe under their roof. But how safe will we remain when our protection depends on the Times?

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Posted by Bill Faith on June 26, 2006 at 01:36 AM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Allah has the tape.

See also: al-NYT at it still again

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Power Line: Congressman King Says: Throw the Book at 'Em

Posted by Bill Faith on June 25, 2006 at 08:04 PM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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Not Above the Law
Mark Levin

The shareholders who own stock in the corporations that own the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal need to become active in demanding that their employees stop giving strategic assistance to terrorists. The latest betrayal involves the revelation of a perfectly legal government program — the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program — which tracks the financial activities of the enemy. I strongly recommend reading my friend Andy McCarthy's recent post here.

What could possibly be the motivation for such an unpatriotic act? The media self-servingly wrap themselves in the First Amendment and pretend that there's some "public interest" in their publishing these secrets. But how does the public benefit from such a completely gratuitous disclosure of information that violates no law or civil liberty, yet arms the enemy with knowledge that better allows it to strike us? ...

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The shareholders need to hold these companies responsible for what they're doing. And someone at the Justice Department needs to wake up and bring some charges against these companies. They are not above the law.

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Posted by Bill Faith on June 25, 2006 at 05:37 AM in Surveillance/CIA-NSA-Media Treason | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack