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The New York Times: All the News That’s Meant to Mislead By Joanne Mandel
Winston Churchill once said that a tyrant is someone who believes his own desires and ambitions and pleasures are worth the suffering of millions. But what do you call those who champion his cause? The New York Times’ record of promoting world-class despots is the subject of a recent essay by journalist Bruce Bawer titled, “The Times, It Ain’t a-Changin,’”.
Political Correctness, A Psychic Straightjacket By Joanne Mandel
Some who grew up in the former Soviet Union say that Westerners “are at least as brainwashed by Multiculturalism and Political Correctness as they ever were with Communism.” So begins Norwegian blogger Fjordman’s, “Political Correctness – The Revenge of Marxism,” a powerful essay about the long-term consequences of our incomplete victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War. “We let our guard down after the fall of the Berlin Wall and never properly denounced the ideology behind it,” writes Fjordman, one of the West’s most insightful observers. And it’s “now coming back to haunt us.” (The author writes under a pseudonym since his views on Israel and Islam make him a target for terrorists.)
5Aug2008 | Joanne Mandel | 1 comment | ContinuedCurrent Articles
