That's where they buried the story of the terrorist ... the MUSLIM terrorist plat ... on JFK International Airport. Uh oh. Please forgive me for identifying this terrorist plot as being based in the wonderful, peaceful religion of Islam. We all know that Muslims are really peace-loving people. How can I ever earn your forgiveness? [:-]
Anywhoooooo.......
JFK is is one of the country's most important, if not the country's most important international airport. Not only that, but it's located right there in New York City! So the story of a planned attack on JFK ends up where? Page 37, that's where. That's right, the Times reported
the story to attack New York's main airport on page 37 in Sunday's newspaper. I think its worth noting that you had to get to the fourth paragraph of the NYT article before you found out that the terrorist wannabes were Muslims, and there you only get a quote from an FBI official saying that the men had "fundamentalist Islamic beliefs of a violent nature."
I'm a subscriber to the "New York Times Digest," a PDF format condensation of the newspaper. In the digest the JFK story appeared as a sidebar on page three (out of 6 pages) and there was no reference at all to their Islamist backgrounds.
The placement of this story merely illustrates how
New York Times has abandoned responsible journalism for partisan electioneering! Their reasoning is simple. If the Times reports the story on page one people might take it seriously. If people take this story seriously then they must admit that this country actually is threatened by Islamic terrorists and this would make John Edwards' statement that the war on terror is just a "bumper sticker, nothing more" sound patently ridiculous. The Times will go out of its way to avoid making any front-running Democrat candidate look like a fool, such is their dedication to the cause of putting a Democrat into the White House. In short, the Times will downplay news of Islamic terrorist threats against the U.S. in order to support Democrat politicians.
While the Times is busy burying stories of Islamic terrorist plots, they're very much up front in their protection of Hillary Rodham. Drudge is reporting that the Times is preparing a very critical review of a book written by Times reporters, a book critical of Hillary.
Here's a link to Drudge's story.
Business as usual. [&o]