PrintJune 16, 2009
Was the Times describing A-Jad, or Obama?
Without a trace -- not even one pixel -- of irony, the editor of the New York Times Monday accused Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being a "shrewd and ruthless front man" for a political elite, the same charge that has been leveled against the Times' beloved Barack Obama. The full quote: "Mr. Ahmadinejad is the shrewd and ruthless front man for a clerical, military and political elite that is more unified and emboldened than at any time since the 1979 revolution."Replace a couple of categories--media instead of clerical, labor in place of military-and the time frame--the 1980 Reagan revolution instead of the 1979 revolution--and Keller's analysis provides a spot-on description of the role Barack Obama fills for the Times and other elites in this country. That Keller would make his observation, inviting this subsequent comparison, lays bare a further truth: the media either are so insular that they are unaware of criticisms of their boostership, or are totally...(Read Full Article)
