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"The draft proposal by the chairmen of President Obama's deficit-reduction commission was a welcome antidote to the low-minded debate that dominated the midterm elections," offering "no credible plans."
"It lays out sensible principles....It puts everything on the table, including tax reform" and spending cuts. "At a time when good ideas are depressingly scarce in the political and economic debate, and bipartisan agreement even scarcer, this is a commendable start."
It ended saying:
"We (hope) Republicans (will) pause long enough in their gleeful planning of President Obama's final defeat, and the Democrats would stop wringing their hands, long enough to read this important document - and then act on it."
On November 26, The Times ran two shameless articles, among others, both by Randal Archibold, one titled, "Russian TV Kowtows to Kremlin, Critic Says," saying:
Leonid G. Parfyonov, a Russian TV and print journalist, "used the occasion of an awards ceremony to deliver a blistering critique of Russian television, saying its journalists had bent so completely to the will of the government that they were 'not journalists at all but bureaucrats, following the logic of service and submission."
Regardless of whether it's true, the hypocrisy is glaring, a clear pot (The Times) calling the kettle (Russian television) black example, and a personal note.
In summer 2008, I was interviewed on Russian television for 30 commercial free minutes, discussing America's Eastern European policies. In fairness, it was Russian friendly, but I was allowed to speak, uninterrupted, as freely as I write and air on my radio program, the Progressive Radio New Hour. Because of my writing, I'm interviewed often, never on corporate radio or TV for a reason. Truth there is banned the same as on Times pages.
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