using our clout to influence the NYT

Sinclair Broadcasting was a hostile media entity. And we used our clout to make Sinclair change on a specific point.

I propose doing the same with the NYT and Judith Miller. Let's start a campaign to get Miller and the NYT to cooperate with Fitzgerald. The powerful respect power. We have power.

Options include:

• campaign to cancel NYT subscriptions
  
• boycotting advertisers
  
• something else?

Miller and the NYT can't honestly claim to be "merely" journalists and not participants in this case.

The actions by Rove and others at the White House were intended to punish Joe Wilson for discrediting the lies used to sell the Iraq War.

But Miller and the NYT weren't journalists WRT the underlying lies and fraud. They were co-conspirators in selling these lies. At best they were the equivalent of people paid to move packages that happen to contain illegal drugs. More likely, they were part of the organized crime outfit.

So Miller and the NYT claiming First Amendment rights sounds like bullshit, especially since neither Miller nor the NYT have really come clean about how they were part of the propaganda machine used to sell the Iraq War.

So, let's be honest, Miller and the NYT are hostiles in this case. We didn't go easy on Sinclair and we shouldn't go easy on the NYT. If the NYT screwed the Right, you can bet the Right would make it as painful as possible for the NYT.

If we're not willing to inflict pain on the NYT, then we're not particularly serious in this case.