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NY Times Can’t Keep Its Story Straight
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Seventeenth century English politician Algernon Sydney said that “liars need to have good memories.” Well, the folks at the New York Times should learn a lesson from that because they spend so much time spinning (and outright lying), that they sometimes lose track of their “facts” in the stories they spin.
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal gives us a great illustration of this in yesterday’s NY Times, in an article about the settlements. In the article, the Times insinuates, similar to Hillary Clinton’s recent pack of lies, that the Israelis made up the whole idea of previous agreements with the United States supporting limited construction in settlements, and that the understanding is in fact that there is to be no construction in the settlements. The NY Times writes:
Such a demand is part of the “road map” agreed to by the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, the so-called quartet, and signed by Israel. But the Israelis said they had unwritten agreements with the former Bush administration that defined the freeze more narrowly, as not building new settlements or expropriating more land.
Well, back in 2004 (August 21, 2004, to be exact), when it was convenient for the NY Times to bash President Bush to its liberal readers, they boldly wrote an article on the settlements containing the following:
The Bush administration, moving to lend political support to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at a time of political turmoil, has modified its policy and signaled approval of growth in at least some Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, American and Israeli officials say.
In the latest modification of American policy, the administration now supports construction of new apartments in areas already built up in some settlements, as long as the expansion does not extend outward to undeveloped parts of the West Bank, according to the officials.
Kudos to James Taranto for putting those together, and, as usual, shame on the NY Times for it’s continued lies, spin, and partisan politics creeping into virtually every article they write.