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1. #1
   On July 27th, 2004 at 12:21 pm, Baklava said:

   Reminds me how the media trumpted 4 9/11 mom’s who lost loved ones…. And it was only those specific 4.

   Then after research it was found out that those 4 mom’s were organized and belonged to leftist organizations and were taking a tour of all of the news organizations in organized and daily fashion. I can’t remember the name of the organization but it doesn’t matter.

   The left will put on so-called people to tell their story as if it lends credence. Talk show hosts may do this too but at least they tell you up front that they are conservative.

   News organizations PRETEND that they are objective instead of admitting what they should admit and they don’t disclose who they are putting on the air.

2. #2
   On July 27th, 2004 at 12:35 pm, Chad Evans said:

   Have the editors at the NY Times heard of Google?

3. #3
   On July 27th, 2004 at 12:53 pm, meep said:

   Reminds me about reading articles on politicians or politically-related people… if they did something bad, and the party affiliation of the person is not mentioned in the first paragraph, then they’re a Democrat.

4. #4
   On July 27th, 2004 at 1:11 pm, Marshall said:

   Printing “editor’s notes” and “corrections” has become all too common at the “Old Gray Lady”.

   Paper of record my a$$.

5. #5
   On July 27th, 2004 at 1:23 pm, Sekimori said:

   Second the Google comment…I found out who she was in about a second and a half.

6. #6
   On July 27th, 2004 at 1:32 pm, CrazyFool said:

   Sounds like the New York Times hasn’t discovered this new Internet Thingy yet.

   Personally I think they (NYT) knew all along she was an died-in-the-wool advocate.

   The Editors can’t be that stupid…..

7. #7
   On July 27th, 2004 at 1:44 pm, JEF said:

   I think the Anti-abortion lobby should film a documentary that the freedom of speech champions would have to tolerate. This documentary would be a no punches pulled depiction of abortion that would include live abortions taking place and show it all in graphic detail. It would have to have an “R” rating because of the gore but that would only guarantee that every young person would want to see it. Included in this would be the aftermath: young mothers crushed with guilt. Also would be included interviews with pro-abortion activists depicting them as heartless and cruel. My guess is that the Fairenheight 911 people would be horrified and try to get it banned from theaters.

8. #8
   On July 27th, 2004 at 1:55 pm, Kyle said:

   Turns out that Amy Richards has an even bigger role in the Pro-Abortion Movement and 3rd-Wave Feminism!

   See: http://www.dawneden.com/2004_07_01_archive.html#109087612104255846

   Kyle

9. #9
   On July 27th, 2004 at 2:01 pm, dano said:

   WHY WHY WHY does this crap have to be in print - I read that article and my heart breaks to see that in print. I know too many parents who cannot have children, and would love to adopt. and it’s just too too sad that the NY Times ran the story in the first place, whether or not the woman is an activist or not. A story about a woman like her just re-emphasizes the “convenient” society of disposable computers, cars, goods (and now unborn children) that we live in.

10. #10
    On July 27th, 2004 at 2:08 pm, Libby said:

    I wonder what her “living” son is going to think of his mother when he’s old enough to truely understand what she did.

11. #11
    On July 27th, 2004 at 2:09 pm, Gerard Van der Leun said:

    “The editors of our magazine did not know about [Amy] Richards’s activist background,” a Times spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis, told The New York Sun”

    Lie
    Lie
    Lie
    Lie
    LIE
    LIE
    LIE
    and…..
    LIE.

    Did I mention that this statement was a lie?

12. #12
    On July 27th, 2004 at 2:14 pm, Fran Tal said:

    911 hijackers were on Maui in early September 2001
    A friend of mine is a (retired) senior pursor for United Airlines.
    She worked 767’s

    On 9-4-2001, she noted five very peculiar passengers on board
    her flight from Kahului, Maui to LAX. There were 3 in the front
    and two in the back. Two of the first-class passengers were
    very grumpy and quiet at the beginning, and the 3rd first-class
    passenger seemed ‘asleep’. The pursor approached the man
    who appeared to be asleep, asked him if he’d like the paper,
    and the man gruffly replied “I’m Asleep!”, and then crossed
    his arms and squinted his eyes back shut.

    After the plane leveled out, the pursor went into the
    cockpit and said this to the pilot: “I think we may have
    a hijacker on board”. They just had that kind of look.

    About two hours into the flight, there was an “ALL HANDS”
    call on the rear telephone setup in the main cabin. This
    type of call indicates a medical or other emergency, and
    requires that all free crewmembers go to the site of
    the alarm and help out. This happened TWICE during
    the flight. The first time it happened, the flight pursor
    noticed that the two grumpy, quiet men in first class
    suddenly burst into loud laughter.

    Later, when she was interviewed by the FBI, she
    positively ID’ed Mr. Atta as one of the passengers.

    THESE PEOPLE WERE PRACTICING ON HER FLIGHT.
    SEVEN DAYS LATER THEY FLEW THE SAME TYPE
    OF PLANE INTO THE WTC.

    Morever, they ORIGINATED ON Maui, they were
    not flying through from some other location. It is
    a matter of fact that Osama Bin Laden was a guest
    at the Four Seasons Hotel in Wailea, Maui, back in
    the early 90’s, and was looking at real estate in the
    area.

    This may indicate that Al Quaida actually has a
    ’safe’ house on Maui.

    No one has ever mentioned the Maui connection
    before, and I hope someone does. Maybe those
    bastards are still on the island.

    Please tell a Friend!

    fractal@maui.net

13. #13
    On July 27th, 2004 at 2:44 pm, e said:

    http://www.imnotsorry.net/catherine.htm

    Quote: “The boyfriend is long gone (I outgrew him and broke his heart a year later) and I cringe at the thought that I could have had his baby – he definitely wasn’t the one for me. I am now 26, have two Bachelor’s degrees, am working as a social worker and taking courses to qualify for medical school. I plan to do abortions as part of my practice – to make sure that other women have the same chance at happiness and finding their dreams that I did.”

14. #14
    On July 27th, 2004 at 3:16 pm, CrazyFool said:

    JEF, Wasn’t there a video at one time called ‘Silent Scream’ or something like that which showed (via ultrasound) the fetus actually being killed and screaming in pain during the abortion procedure?

    I seem to recall it was banned because it was ‘too graphic’ or something. Yet another case of true censorship….

    Ah yes here it is: http://www.silentscream.org/

15. #15
    On July 27th, 2004 at 4:57 pm, Michele C. said:

    “Approached the story as a journalist”?! So where was the useful information, the facts, the figures, the quotes from doctors who perform the procedure?!

    I suppose it was just frustrating not to be a media darling like some of her sister feminists, and in this wackily pro-abortion year (with the advent of imnotsorry.net, the March for Women’s Lives, etc), she found her angle for infamy.

16. #16
    On July 27th, 2004 at 5:04 pm, nobody important said:

    There is a small caravan of three trucks driving through the streets of Boston this week. On each panel of the trucks are large graphic photos of aborted children. The trucks are blaring out anti-abortion messages and taking Kerry/Edwards to task for being part of the abortion industry.

    The reactions of people to this are quite stark. A lot of people refuse to look, averting their eyes or covering them. Some look with shock/disgust/shame, others anger. One interesting reaction is the “no-reaction” reaction, looking but pretending not to see and going on with their ice cream or conversation. The women appear to be particularly distraught.

    The truth hurts sometimes. Abortions are not clean, they’re not abstract, they’re not policy disputes. They are the killing and dismembering of humans.

17. #17
    On July 27th, 2004 at 5:32 pm, Mike said:

    Did she not terminate the two female non-humans in her womb and keep the male non-human? (unless she decides to terminate the male non-human just before/during delivery)A true liberal woman would have kept a potential female non-human.

18. #18
    On July 27th, 2004 at 5:48 pm, Ernie G said:

    It’s not like presenting a hand-picked shill as a random citizen is anything new to the New York Times. Does the name Greg Packer ring a bell? He is the ubiquitous “man in the street” who has been quoted over a hundred times, on everything from Hillary Clinton’s book to the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Alas, his fifteen minutes of fame appear to be over, since Ann Coulter outed him in a column.

19. #19
    On July 27th, 2004 at 5:56 pm, Beldar said:

    It’s sad, but completely unsurprising, that the Times could have reacted to this extremely disturbing tale as coming from anyone “normal” in any sense of that word.

20. #20
    On July 27th, 2004 at 6:18 pm, Nathan Moore said:

    Atrocious, on counts of disclosure and substance. Why both aren’t roundly condemned outside of the conservative blogosphere is telling.

    Nathan Moore
    http://www.moorethoughts.com

21. #21
    On July 27th, 2004 at 9:10 pm, Tom said:

    Thanks for this post, Michelle. But I have to say that a newspaper that would publish a story like that (in the “Lives” section, no less) seems unlikely to be concerned about pushing the views of a radical abortion activist, even duplicitously.

22. #22
    On July 27th, 2004 at 9:19 pm, jimbo said:

    The thing I don’t get: as an abortion activist, is she so far gone that she thinks publishing this sort of story will really persuade others to her position? I mean, I used to be a wishy-washy “think abortion is wrong but don’t want to ban it” sort, but stories like this are inexorably pushing me towards a “only if the mother’s life is threatened” position. Is anyone going to read this and think, “Yeah, I guess killing two babies is no big deal when stacked up against having to move to Staten Island.” What are these people thinking?

23. #23
    On July 27th, 2004 at 10:22 pm, JEF said:

    Crazyfool, I didn’t know about silent scream but it sounds like a short. I was talking about a full length documentary. My sister is a nurse and she told me about a saline abortion she inadvertantly saw as she was delivering some meds to an operating room. The doctor had inserted the syringe into the baby through the womb. The handle of the syringe was waggling all around as the baby was thrashing around in the womb. Stuff like this would even have no blood but is even spookier and sickening than the gore. If a movie was made and shown everywhere (like at college campuses etc after lawsuits forcing them to accept it on equal basis with left wing flicks like f911) maybe abortion would become the medically necessary, rare procedure it was supposed to be in the first place.

24. #24
    On July 27th, 2004 at 10:40 pm, Brennan Stout said:

    The NY Times has a history of publishing ‘news’ accounts that do not qualify the author’s or the person in the story’s personal background.

    I cannot recall the specific case, but there was an Op/Ed written in late 2001 by a lawyer about a specific case regarding Enron/Worldcom. The bio notation just reported that the writer was a lawyer, but in actuality the writer was one of the lawyers on a team that was filing lawsuits against Enron and Worldcom.

25. #25
    On July 27th, 2004 at 10:45 pm, Brennan Stout said:

    Oops, I had the wrong story. Here is the correction that the NY Times ran for their error.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/05/opinion/06editors-note.html?ex=1091073600&en=6d633d7d4a2967f1&ei=5070

    “An Op-Ed article on Tuesday about Iraq’s foreign debt should have more fully disclosed the background of its author, Mark Medish. Mr. Medish, an international lawyer and former Treasury official, represents corporations that are owed money by Iraq.” - 11/05/2003

    The best part of the story is that it was caught by a blogger.
    http://hippercritical.typepad.com/hipp/2003/11/ny_times_disclo.html

26. #26
    On July 27th, 2004 at 11:41 pm, Martin aka Blogbat said:

    No, you have to be kidding me, the NYT simply took a Liberal at their word? If we ever decided to make a documentary in the vein of Robert Greenwald’s, “OutFoxed”, I can imagine more than enough material for a two-parter. Maybe it’s time for ‘BadTimes’…

27. #27
    On July 28th, 2004 at 2:35 am, Xrlq said:

    Anyone know who’s behind the imnotsorry.net site? Some of this stuff seems almost self-parodying. Any chance it’s a hoax? A whois search reveals a certain Patricia Beinanto, of Richmond, Virginia. Does this name ring any bells?

    Hoax or no, I’d encourage all creative writers of the blogosphere to submit stories of their own for publication on the site. They won’t take entries where you admit you aborted the kid just to get at the boyfriend, but aside from that, anything goes. The more outrageous, the better. Male bloggers with obviously male names should consider using pseudonyms.

28. #28
    On July 28th, 2004 at 2:35 am, Xrlq said:

    Beinanto = Beninato