No Need for Proof

Here's an article from World Net Daily entitled "Gray Lady goes to bed with Kerry" Great title, isn't it? Just jumps right out at you. So let's take a look at the evidence article author Bob Kohn provides. Here's the first paragraph.

"Evidence suggests that a New York Times reporter covering the Kerry campaign may be sleeping with the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party. Let me explain."

He then goes on to recount the fact that Senator Kerry had a few problems last week, including "Medelgate" and driving an SUV and denying that he drives and SUV. He also shows how the New York times apparently saved Kerry's bacon in both cases. And then he adds finishes with his "proof."

Providing exactly the opposite of the SUV-driving, private jet-flying image Kerry had been fighting all week, the puff piece began with how "The man who would be president takes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches – on whole wheat, strawberry jelly preferred to grape – twice a day on the campaign trail. He wears $15 reading glasses, off the rack at CVS. Before bedtime, he starts but rarely finishes movies like 'Seabiscuit' and 'The Blues Brothers' in his hotel suite."

Leaving aside the interesting question of how this female Times reporter learned that Kerry "rarely finishes" watching the movies he started, you just have to wonder what is going on here. Had this story been prepared days before, ready to be dropped on the front page the day after Kerry needed his average-Joe image resuscitated?

In his book "Burning Down My Masters' House," Jayson Blair described how Times reporters, both male and female, are commonly offered theater tickets, free meals, drinks and sometimes even sex in exchange for favorable mentions in their stories. A large number of journalists at the Times, he says, "have a weak spot for sex."

Do the Democrats have another Bill Clinton running for president?"

Did you see the proof in that paragraph? Neither did I. But who needs proof. A female reporter is pro-Kerry? She must be in love with him. That's the only answer. After all, it's not like she's a real reporter, is she?

The tone of misogyny in this article is a bit disturbing; but I guess that's par for the course.

Edited to add; got this article from Media Matters for America, a new website debunking the right wing press.