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October 04, 2004

New York Times to Fire Fighters: Drop Dead

The New York Times is in a spitting snit over NY fire fighters being used to "sell" programs, issues, and candidates:

It's time to wonder whether New York's Bravest are overexposed and overexploited.

Politicians will go the extra mile to rub elbows with them. President Bush went to Queens to get the endorsement of the city's rank-and-file union leadership before he appeared at the G.O.P. convention. Senator John Kerry, who has won the endorsement of the fire officers' union, sounded a siren for them during the debate last week, when he decried that firehouses were being opened in Baghdad while they were being closed in New York. It hardly mattered that more firehouses aren't needed in New York. It's the symbol that counts. ...

New Yorkers don't admire their firefighters for their political savvy or keen judgments on economic development. We look to them for one thing, to be there when they're needed for real emergencies. And that doesn't include being pitchmen for the latest product in need of a hero.

You can imagine my shock and suprise, then, when I noted that the Times had dutifully reported the so-called "Jersey Girls" liberal claque's endorsement of John Kerry, and yet, for the life of me, I have not yet been able to find Gail Collins telling them to mind their own business and go back to their real jobs (vacuuming, bakin' cookies, watching Dr. Phil, etc.)

I'm sure that the New York Times editorial page will chastise the Jersey Girls for using their public sympathy to influence debates in which they have no genuine expertise.

Any. Minute. Now.


posted by Ace at 03:21 PM
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Firefighters and cops have jobs that involve medium to low-hazard deadly risk. Less risky than truck-driving, traveling salesmen, commercial fishers, ironworkers, loggers, helicopter pilots, farmers, oil rig workers, heavy construction, and so on. And get huge "line of duty" benefits denied soldiers and others in gov't and private industry.

Even the NYTimes gets it right now and then. It is as wrong for firefighters to whore themselves out advertising for store promotions, restaurants where they get freebies as it would be for an active duty soldier trading in on his uniform to sell used cars in battle gear.

I blame long-time cop-worshipper Giuliani for creating a 9/11 Victim's Heros vs. Zeros mentality. "They rush towards danger, while cowardly ordinary zero citizens trying to flee can only genuflect in awe of their heroism".

As for the "Jersey Girls", Dorothy Rabinowitz gave a good essay on how they are really perceived in the NYC metro area - self-promoting media whores out to push their personal agenda, shouldering aside other victim's families. The two worst are Kristin Breitweiser, Monica "Bush and Giuliani are Murderers" Gabrielle, and Sally Regenhard, also known as Sally Blowhard.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=110004950

Does the Times care how deeply these few self-promoting bitches are reviled in the NYC Metro area, and by many of their fellow 9/11 families? Of course not! Journalistic integrity in impartial reporting 3 years after 9/11 is outside the NYTimes political agenda sphere. Hence their promotion of Kerry, claiming the Jersey Girls (5 of 2,782 victims) are the true spokespersons of 9/11, firefighters as America's Greatest Heroes, and David Libeskind as the "Healing Architect of America".

The NYTimes is as trustworthy as CBS...no maybe more, since they lie daily.

Posted by: Cedarford on October 4, 2004 07:09 PM
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