OS ran across bits of this, and thought--nyah, this is just some rant from some guy living in his mom's basement with his gun collection and Confederate flag.
In 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation spent more on the caterer for its signature legislative dinner and conference — nearly $700,000 for an event one organizer called “Hollywood on the Potomac” — than it gave out in scholarships, federal tax records show.
OS has a friend on the faculty at Fisk University, a flagship black university, founded and built by freed slaves. They struggle to keep the doors open. Certainly, this story is overblown. What could Fisk do with 700 grand?
But, just to be certain, he kept searching, and the original story is sourced at the New York Times.
The quote was accurate. And the whole story is much uglier than just that paragraph.
Time was, the Times would never, ever print a story like this. They were the original LiberalGuiltAssCovering service. No matter how egregious, never a murmur about any black Democrat. Back in the day, Adam Clayton Powell ran Harlem as a personal duchy, right under the nose of the Times.
Well, times has changed(unintentional pun...) Reality is setting in. Their people won. Statehouse, Congress, White House. Black governor, black president. The Dream is reality.
And the wheels are coming off.
The Times, to survive, must regain at least a semblance of credibility. They no longer control the conversation, and increasingly, the country doesn't care what their editorial page thinks.
Obama and company are losing their cover, and cold winds are beginning to blow.
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It will take a whole lot more than this, probably more than is humanly possible, for me to ever believe in the NYT again. And I do not think I am alone. They wore their blindfold and lied so well for so long that I think they have blown their credibility permanently. They are firmly established as just one more hack rag, rapidly dying just like all the rest.
I think you are correct in saying that they realize that they have endangered their position and are trying to save themselves. I just think they are way to late. I will not miss them at all; they have shown their true colors.
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