Newspaper of record transformed into conveyer belt for ginned up winger "scandals"

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Honestly, all this coverage of ginned up pseudo-controversies from winger bottom feeders. What is the World's Greatest Newspaper thinking?

If it's not treating the Cathol League's Donohue as anything other than racist buffoon and anti-semitic blowhard, it's treating Pelosi's desire for a plane that carries enough fuel to fly non-stop to LA as newsworthy. They just eat it with a spoon, do they?

What complete waste of time and trees.

More cocktail wienies, anyone?

NOTE "Cathol League" is not a typo. Snicker.

UPDATE Chris Bowers really fought the good fight on this. What he said:

It is bitterly ironic [or only to be expected] that established news outlets are failed to provide context, do proper research, vet sources, and otherwise uphold basic standards of journalism on a story about bloggers. After all, bloggers often receive exactly the same criticisms from the established media. However, few people heard about William Donahue's long history of vicious religious intolerance--instead, they only heard that he was a Catholic who wanted Amanda and Melissa fired. Also, few people heard that John McCain's staff has been criticized for controversies far surpassing this--instead, most were given the impression that this was the first case of a blogger / campaign controversy. Others heard outright falsehoods about the story, such as the notion that Amanda tried to delete her past comments.

Well, that's our famously free press.

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Donohue

It seems the media will take any non-story and run with it. Donahue is a hatemongering bigot, but CNN and MSNBC gladly put the microphone in front of him and let him spew his crazy remarks.

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