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Title: Jon Stewart: My, these Rubio scoops from the NYT are amazingly lame
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URL Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/ ... om-the-nyt-are-amazingly-lame/
Published: Jun 11, 2015
Author: Ed Morrissey
Post Date: 2015-06-11 19:10:23 by Tooconservative
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Views: 1993
Comments: 13
As it turns out, the Gray Lady’s strange, petty, and tone-deaf attacks on Marco Rubio’s financial struggles as a young man failed to impress nearly everybody — even those in its usual clique of media elites. “What’s the New York Times going to do,” Jon Stewart asks his Daily Show audience while scoffing at editor Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s defense of the attack pieces, “exercise editorial control?” Stewart didn’t aim all his fire at the Times, though. He saved his parting shot for CNN’s attempt to sensationalize the story, quipping at the end, “Wow. Suddenly the man who paid off his student loans and got a boat is printing counterfeit 100s in his basement.” Could this have worked out any worse for the New York Times — and any better for Marco Rubio? This week-long descent into irrelevancy will do plenty of damage to the New York Times in the short run, but it may bolster Rubio even more in the long run. In my column for The Fiscal Times, I argue that the episode has given Rubio an emotional connection to middle America, but perhaps more importantly proved his readiness for a hard-knocks campaign against a foe with massive oppo-research capabilities: In today’s Investors Business Daily, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez gets perhaps the best shot at the New York Times’ editorial bias, which provides a perfect bookend to Stewart’s ridicule: The New York Times may continue to argue that their targeting of Rubio is part of their unbiased coverage, but that ship — and their credibility on 2016 reporting — has sailed. Also, be sure to check out Ramirez’ terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez’ career, and it gives fascinating look at political history. Read my review here, and watch my interviews with Ramirez here and here. And don’t forget to check out the entire Investors.com site, which has now incorporated all of the former IBD Editorials, while individual investors still exist. No one’s asked presidential candidates the hard questions like the New York Times has, Jon Stewart said on “The Daily Show” Wednesday, and now, they’ve gone after Marco Rubio. Except their revelations this week, about his driving record and personal spending, fell flat.
“I can’t think of a single person who would be bothered by this,” Stewart said of the stories that detailed how the Republican senator from Florida paid off his student loans with money he made from writing a book, bought a boat, leased a car and got four traffic tickets since 1997. Outrageous!
“I’m assuming the New York Times obtained this damning information from Marco Rubio’s plaque in the Hall of Best Miami Drivers Ever,” he said.In other words, the Rubios had gone through many of the same struggles that younger professionals had endured. Neither of them came from wealthy families, and while their twenties and thirties were financially challenging, they had managed to modestly prosper and settle down not far from where Rubio grew up.
While the Clintons deal with their massive fortune earned by exploiting their connections to power and public trust, the Rubios seem more accessible to mainstream America than ever. The story turns out so well that MSNBC’s Chris Hayes wondered on Twitter whether Rubio was planting the stories in The Times as “false flags made to make him look sympathetic.”
This fight with The Times did more than make Rubio a more sympathetic candidate. It rallied conservatives around him while prompting media analysts to criticize the Paper of Record as reckless and biased. Conservatives also noticed the nimbleness of Team Rubio and their response effort. In 2008 and 2012, Republican voters felt frustrated by presidential campaigns that didn’t have good reflexes in the media battles; this showed the rank-and-file that Rubio and his team aren’t afraid to play hardball in the major leagues.
The primary debates are still months away, and the first chance for voters to cast ballots even farther off. Rubio may have just passed a major test and at the same time performed a favor to the rest of the Republican field. The New York Times may hope to pick the next President, but they may get their wish in a completely unforeseen way.
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This is such a windfall for Rubio and such a pratfall for the normally savvy and devious Slimes that you almost have to think the Old Gray Whore is trying to help Rubio progress toward the GOP nomination. I bet the other GOP candidates wish the Slimes would attack them like that.(1 image)
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#1. To: TooConservative, *2016 The Likely Suspects* (#0) (Edited)
At least they didn't mention his drinking problem. /s
None of this makes him a good presidential candidate. He's a globalist America-last neocon, like Hillary.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul#2. To: hondo68 (#1) (Edited)
The Slimes seems to be pitching soft balls to Rubio now. Probably to really hurt Jeb Bush is my guess. Bush is already wounded and the Slimes may be circling to finish him off.
The Ramirez cartoon was dead-on.
#3. To: TooConservative (#2)
Bush is already wounded and the Slimes may be circling to finish him off.
Stop!
You are going to force me to say something nice about tne NYT,and I'm not sure I'll be able to live with myself if I do.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#4. To: sneakypete (#3)
You are going to force me to say something nice about tne NYT,and I'm not sure I'll be able to live with myself if I do.
Not at all.
I'm thinking that Florida, likely a battle royale between Bush and Rubio, is being set up to create enough bitterness between Bush backers and Rubio backers that either one getting the nomination will have a hard time carrying FL in the general election. That would be Game Over for the GOP winning the WH in 2016.
So the Slimes is still the Old Gray Whore we've known and hated for many years.
#5. To: sneakypete (#3)
And if you aren't suspicious enough yet:
HotAir: No, really: Why is the Times working so hard lately to make Rubio seem like an ordinary guy?
Everybody is suspicious of the Slimes "bungling" the Rubio hit pieces.
#6. To: TooConservative, tomder55 (#0)
Nice cartoon. Spot on.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
#7. To: redleghunter, TooConservative (#6) (Edited)
When you look at the boat it looks like a fishing boat that many people in the Miami area have .
When I heard this all I could think of was JF Kerry's(aka Lurch)yacht and how he parked it in another state to avoid paying taxes and fees .
Ann Coulter says it best . The Slimes is really good at picking Republican talent . You know who they fear by how viciously they attack them.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
#8. To: tomder55 (#7)
When you look at the boat it looks like a fishing boat that many people in the Miami area have .
Because that's all it is.
Even Dexter has a bigger and fancier boat.
#9. To: tomder55 (#7)
When I heard this all I could think of was JF Kerry's(aka Lurch)yacht and how he parked it in another state to avoid paying taxes and fees .
LOL I remember that...
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
#10. To: TooConservative (#4)
I'm thinking that Florida, likely a battle royale between Bush and Rubio, is being set up to create enough bitterness between Bush backers and Rubio backers that either one getting the nomination will have a hard time carrying FL in the general election. That would be Game Over for the GOP winning the WH in 2016.
You are probably right,but since we are a One Party Nation now,does it really make any different to anybody but them and their relatives and the people on their payrolls?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#11. To: TooConservative (#0) (Edited)
Conservatives tend to hate Stewart for how he skewers FOX news and Bush but Stewart has pretty much attacked CNN and NYT more to the point he got shows cancelled, etc. He is a critic of the BS mainstream news more than anything.
The true scandal would be how Rubio is payed under the table legally - and that is the fake book deals politicians get for a ghostwritten book. Since its for a book that comes from a publisher it seems above board but the books really don't sell to anyone. They are bought by lobby groups in bulk or its a way for FOX news to pay a politician indirectly if the book is published by a Murdoch owned book company.
But this scam is so common and central to how America is now that even the NYT is in on it with their #1 bestseller BS book listings. They are hoping we read between the lines but that's all they can do.
#12. To: Pericles (#11)
Conservatives tend to hate Stewart for how he skewers FOX news and Bush but Stewart has pretty much attacked CNN and NYT more to the point he got shows cancelled, etc. He is a critic of the BS mainstream news more than anything.
Stewart is 90% attacking conservative media, 10% attacking the liberal media. That is his idea of "balance".
It's just his schtick. Don't fall for it. He is anything but even-handed.
#13. To: TooConservative (#12)
Stewart is 90% attacking conservative media, 10% attacking the liberal media. That is his idea of "balance".
Absolutely correct.
Stewart is a libtard lump of shit. Anyone that likes, listens or defends him is as libtard as Stewart.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
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