New York Times Headlines

I won’t know what the NYT’s Op/Ed Columnist Frank Rich has to say this Sunday until I go out and buy a copy of today’s paper. I’m still pissed off that the Times would have the balls to demand ransom payments of $49.95 a year (or $7.85 per month) for Internet access (snottily called “Times Select”) to its columnists. However, I might possibly have considered paying the extortionate demand just to read Frank Rich, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof online. But the payoff also would include access to the NYT’s supreme assholes, Tom Friedman, John Tierney and David Brooks (plus honorary asshole Maureen Dowd) and screw that. The headline for Rich’s column today is great though, “Donald Rumsfeld's Dance With the Nazis”, and the teaser gives a pretty good hint what it’s about: “What made Mr. Rumsfeld’s invocation of Hitler’s appeasers so special was the preview it offered of the ambitious propaganda campaign planned between now and Election Day.” Two NYT news-story headlines also are grabbers: “Rove’s Word Is No Longer G.O.P. Gospel”, and “G.O.P. Hopeful Says Rumsfeld Should Resign”. The GOP hopeful is State Senator Thomas H. Kean, Jr who is running for the United States Senate in New Jersey. The article takes 964 words to say that Rummy should resign and that the Iraq war is an albatross around all GOP candidates’ necks. The article about Rove’s word being full of shit takes 1,762 words to say just that. So there you have it, the NYT in a nutshell. You’re welcome.