Look It Up or Make It Up?

Posted by Bill Hennessy on July 9, 2006 under Latest |

If you’re Frank Rich, you suck on a bottle of Ripple, make it up to fit your agenda, and call it “All the News That’s Fit to Bully.”

In today’s New York Times, Rich more or less plagiarizes Paul Krugman’s Friday piece on the New York Times’s intentional publication of highly classified information on methods and sources used to fight terrorism. Like Krugman, Rich is either a liar or a very lazy writer.

For instance, he pretends that an April 2006 opinion poll is the most recent:

Even in this bash-the-press environment, the last spectacle needed by a president with an approval rating in the 30’s is the national firestorm that would greet a doomed Justice Department prosecution of The Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times.

The from Rasmussen dated July 8, 2006:

Forty-three percent (43%) of Americans Approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.

Later, we learn that he hasn’t read an article about New Orleans’s recovery since mid-winter:

There are momentous stories far more worrisome to the White House than the less-than-shocking Swift program, whether in the chaos of Anbar Province or the ruins of New Orleans.

The Truth–at least according The New York Times:

In a market spurred by speculators and bargain hunters, an extraordinarily large number of houses in the flood-ravaged metropolitan area here are being sold, according to real estate analysts, who say volume and sales prices exceed levels before Hurricane Katrina.

And these aren’t bargain basement prices, either. Home prices in New Orleans are up, not down as Rich would have us believe.

Across the nine-parish region that includes New Orleans, 7,506 single-family homes were sold between January and the end of last month, compared with 6,449 in the same period last year, according to statistics from the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors and the Gulf South Real Estate Information Network. The average price so far this year is $221,244, compared with $193,097 in the same period last year.

Just to spin his lies a bit faster, he starts his wrap up by telling us, “We can believe that reporters, rather than terrorists, are the villains.”

No, Frank. We don’t villainize reporters over terrorists. We just don’t think there’s dime’s difference between the two of you.

There are no bad journalists, only novelists.

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