En route to boarding the PATH train at Ground Zero, NYC, (still known as the World Trade Center), to zip over to Jersey City, NJ, I was handed a free copy of a rag calling itself The New York Sun. The web edition is
here. Featuring such articles as
Bush Rejects Retreat Over Beheadings and
Allawi: 'Your Sacrifices Are Not in Vain' both written by Eli Lake, one can only wonder who is backing this foul mouthpiece of the Bush Regime. The ads in the printed edition are limited almost exclusively to real estate concerns, and are glaringly sparse. I can't see much of their operating costs coming from selling ad space.
Here's a sample of their editorial slant, excerpted from a piece entitled "Anti-American Vote", subtitled "Laura Ingraham on how the American-bashers will put Bush back in the White House":
Indeed, you cannot understand the current world crisis unless you appreciate the extent to which much of the world is down with the anti-American flu. Why isn't Mr. Annan happy that America and its allies finally implemented the many American resolutions condemning Saddam Hussein? Why aren't so-called moderates across the Muslim world happy that Saddam has been hauled off to prison? Why are lefties across Great Britain screaming for Prime Minister Blair's head? Why does Michael Moore get feted with rose-petals across Europe? Why doesn't anyone care that communist China is stomping on democracy in Hong Kong, but foreign election observers are coming to check on our presidential race? In every case, the explanation relates to simple, raw, unreasoning hatred for America. For too many people around the world, anything that's good for the (sic) America must be bad for everyone else.
It continues with this bizarre paragraph:
It is difficult to imagine a more unpleasant situation for American liberals. For the most part, these folks are far more at home in Paris or Geneva than they would be in Cincinnati or St. Louis. For decades, American liberals have basically stolen all of their ideas from Western Europe. The sexual revolution, pacifism, sucking up to the Soviet Union, higher taxes, a more restrictive welfare state: Each and every one of these ideas originated in Europe before being embraced by the American left. Heedless of the fact that Americans often disagree with Europeans, and that ideas designed for the French electorate might not play in Peoria, the liberals have paid heavily for their dependence on foreign thought. But even American liberals have to be a bit wary of promoting anti-Americanism to an American electorate.
Does anyone actually read stuff like this? And yeah, Paris and Geneva sound pretty good to me right about now. Although I've never been.