The Darrell Issa Hit Piece: Most Inaccurate NYT Article … Ever?
The most appalling element of Lichtblau’s article may be that he has apparently resurfaced that old problem at the “Paper of Record”: plagiarism. Noted the Heritage Foundation:
On March 30, 2011, The Center for American Progress, in a blog post that itself contained significant factual errors and omissions, made accusations related to federal funds Rep. Issa sought for his congressional district and property holdings located within the congressional district. The Center for American Progress’ researcher who authored this blog post appears unhappy with Eric Lichtblau’s attempt to pass this work off as his own in a tweet sent out last night:
lhfang (Lee Fang): Hey @EricLichtblau & @thepubliceditor your NYT Issa piece looks awfully familiar (see http://t.co/uZQBIsz &http://t.co/NSw0Wrc)
The central theme of the NYT article seems to be that Issa is a wealthy man — and he is, with a net worth of about $250 million — and a successful businessman. Worse yet, he’s an American success story: the grandson of Lebanese immigrants who came from a hardscrabble background in a blue-collar neighborhood in Cleveland who worked hard and became wealthy. Further, he’s a persistent thorn in the administration’s side, and is uncovering a scandal worse than Watergate.
Obviously he must be destroyed by the MSM — even if they have to lie to do it.
Issa’s team is treating the article as a badge of honor:
Beginning with the opening line, the New York Times piece is riddled with factual errors and careless assertions that has resulted in a story predicated on innuendo and not fact. It’s disappointing that the so-called “paper-of-record” has decided to publish a story that is nothing more than a compilation of left-wing blog posts that are easily found by a simple Google search. It’s the same old playbook, every time Darrell Issa starts gaining ground, the left-wing smear machine goes on the attack. If anything, this story validates the work that the Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is pursuing.
That last line sums it up. If you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.
Ain’t that the truth.
All the news that fits our views, that’s what we print. (Don’t even trust the page numbers in the NYT.)
The Slimes article is a snapshot of what will happen up to the election.
They will do or say anything.
They are too close to the triumph of their life’s work to expect anything less.
If Little Lenin isn’t in the lead next summer, there will either be a meltdown that makes 2008 look like child’s play, or else a nuclear confrontation with Iran or Pakistan.
They have no limits.
Well, the L.A. Times is proceeding with substance on Operation Fast and Furious. The ATF promotes three players whose names readers here will recognize: William Newell, William McMahon, and David Voth. Drudge is linking the story.
You probably wonder why these guys were promoted.
There has to be a reason why these particular guys were promoted
and there is.
They know too much about the involvement of higher level people in this slime fest!
If they testify truthfully about what they know, some important people may be in serious trouble.
This is an attempt to buy them off, and move them to a place where they are hard to reach.
Issa should subpoena them for testimony before his committee and get them to tell what they know. If they are willing to risk disgrace and jail time by perjuring themselves he might fail. But he should try hard to get them to speak honestly. They are the ones to go after.
We should thank the promoters for identifying for all who Issa should go after.
It looks like this Eric Lichtblau has been going after Issa for a while, since 1998 at least.
The comments for the NYT article reference a New Yorker magazine piece from earlier this year (Jan 24 2011, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_lizza?printable=true ), where Lichtblau is mentioned:
“He lashed out at Eric Lichtblau, the New York Times reporter who, in 1998, while working for the Los Angeles Times, first aired allegations from Issa’s former business partner Joey Adkins. Lichtblau, Issa charged, “is a notorious hatchet man.” (“Everything in that story was accurate,” Lichtblau told me in response. “The picture that emerged of his early start in Cleveland was very different from the Horatio Alger story he had adopted.”) “
I live in San Diego County and frequently drive the 78 freeway right by Issa’s office. It does indeed overlook the freeway, separated by only a frontage road, and is an ordinary, unremarkable building. Vista, the city where his office is located, is a working-class community with relatively low real estate values compared to much of San Diego County.
I’ve had reason to call Issa’s local Congressional office several times and was always treated courteously by his friendly staff. A number of years ago I attended a town hall meeting he arranged and hosted during the heat of the illegal alien/open borders debate. He faced a huge and angry crowd of citizens(the large auditorium was filled to the point of standing-room)and answered their questions with respect and composure and a minimum amount of orchestration by his staff. The questioners were definitely not hand-picked, even though the media was there with cameras running.
It’s no surprise that Issa is being attacked personally by Obama’s media minions for his investigation into Fast and Furious. He’s savvy enough to have expected it and from what I’ve seen with my own eyes I know he’s brave enough to handle it and continue on. If this scandal was happening under a Republican president the MSM would be on it 24-7.
Can anyone tell us if the NEW YORK TIMES is deliberately
trying to hurt the United States of Amrica?
This is not the first nor the secone time that they (the Times)
has printed Lies for the sake of glorifying OBAMA.
We, THE PEOPLE, would like the New York Times to be forthright
and tell us that they HATE America and anything that will hurt
OBAMA. We do realize that OBAMA is not competent to defend himself.
I bet Carlos Slim doesn’t like what Darrell Issa is accomplishing.
I believe it was reported several weeks ago that the Sulzberger’s had repaid the loans they received from Carlos Slim.
I was only scummy ’til you caught me.
OH MY GOD!
This passes for a response from the left.
I don’t pay much attention to what the NY Times claims, but last I heard (a month ago or so) was that they would repay Carlos Slim by August 15. Paying him back early would be a good idea, considering his various business involvements, ya know?
Thank you for verifying something I posted on another site this morning. I came across a link to this NYT article and posted my own comment about Issa leading the investigation into Fast and Furious. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the hatchet job they were trying to pull on Issa. The timing was just too convenient.
Eric Lichtblau?
Doesn’t he have a history of dipping his pen in bat-guano?
Those who want to see honest and responsible journalism should all be writing and demanding this from every source. A good place to begin is with guidelines.
Joe Carter is clear about what makes an honest journalist:
Lesson #1: Make sure your quotes say what you claim they say
Lesson #2: Ensure that you use reliable sources
Lesson #3: If you claim something is said in a book (article, speech, interview etc), make sure it is said in that book (article, speech, interview etc)
Lesson #4: Don’t rely on fact-checkers to save you (If you lack journalistic integrity and basic research skills . . . fact-checkers can’t save you from embarrassing yourself.)
To these I would add
Lesson #5: Make sure your article is well structured, uses simple (if possible) and unambiguous English
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/08/a-journalism-lesson-for-the-new-yorker
But then, how would liberals ever make their case? Reason never enters into it. Just obfuscation.
If you are pretending that this is mere incompetance, you are obviously from Pluto. The universal position in any argument is, “yeah, well, you’re a weenie. And your dog is, too. A fascist, racist, nazi weenie!”, until, of course, they say, “You really need to stop the violent rhetoric.”
Same old, same old.
Who reads the NY Slimes?? Why is anyone surprised that they would go after the prosecutor rather than the criminals who committed the crimes… Crimes I’ll remind you that resulted in the DEATH of a Border Patrol Agent. The list is endless of the things this administration are guilty of committing and the media is AS GUILTY as the thugs. Sure hopes America wakes up before its too late and we have no where to go.
The NYT has a very dupious past, as confirmed in the Verona Papers. It isn’t surprising that they are still full of falsehood. Eventually, now that America has alternative media to the old anti-conservative press, lying reporters will reap what they have sown these many decades. Truth will out, and the NYT will be only another failed newspaper, found in future attics as cushioning for relics of the past.
In the coming year, they will no doubt continue to steal from Soros’s followers who write the blogs. Other newspapers in the U.S. who blindly follow the NYT have not realized they are hitching their wagon to a falling star.
In case your auto correct overruled you, it was the Venona Papers.
I hope eventually some big name MSM journalist with integrity…or ambition, maybe eying a Pulitzer or something… will step forward and blow the lid off the Operation Fast and Furious story. I would like to believe there still is such a thing. They’d have to be intellectually honest, and courageous… the backlash would be enormous and potentially career-ending.
Never happen. There’s actually a Pulitzer for online journalism. To my knowledge it’s never been awarded. The Pulitzer is purely political in nature. No one reporting on misdeeds by the administration will ever win.
It’d be nice if that hubristic, annointed Pulitzer-scraper-upper, The Washington Post could have one of their investigative reporters go after Holder……..I know, I know…..when pigs fly.
That would really upset the apple-cart. Tart red orbs rolling all over the place.
I guess the NYT finds it irrelevant that Toyota was eventually completely exonerated in the “unintended acceleration” cases, just as Audi was several decades ago.
This is a particularly egregious and upsetting story of one of the few good men in the United States Congress being intentionally targeted by filthy vultures, as his investigation of Fast and Furious ((Senator Charles Grassley is also a big player) and inquiries into the Obama administration overstepping its boundaries grow wider and deeper.
Darrell Issa, in his public remarks, seems more than up to the task of taking on the liars and cretins.
The defense of the NY Times from our standard lefty trolls is deafening
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A great article with evidently extensive research.
I have only one minor suggestion, in the future we should all refer to the New York Times not as a member of the Main Stream Media but as the twent-first century reincarnation of Pravda!
An insult! Pravda is more credible.
If I asked 10 random people on the street if they knew anything about Fast and Furious, I bet not one of them would. I’ve not heard even one of my friends mention it. Maybe equally as scandalous is the media collusion in covering up this story.
Then buzz it up! It’s easy: you just say with a casual smile, “If you’re not following the news, then you heard it here first: Operation Fast and Furious, not the economy, is what’s gonna kill the Obama administration.” When people ask what it is, just keep that casual smile and tell them to google it or search it up in Pajamas Media or the L.A. Times.
I did exactly that last week, when I left my cocoon in AZ for my home state of IL. Of the dozen or so relatives & friends I asked, not one had heard of “Fast & Furious”,or of the other names the operation is known by – Operation Gunwalker, etc. My contribution to our republic was to inform these folks of the threat F & F poses to the Second Amendment. All of them were incredulous that their MSM sources were mute with this story.
Well let’s play just imagine, just like the New York Times.
Imagine, the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, a man of Lebanese heritage, yet a Mexican national, purchases the premier news and opinion making journal in the (free) world.
Mr. Slim alas amassed his vast fortune concurrently with the rise and higher rise of the greatest narco-terrorist state in the history of mankind even surpassing the drug addled United States of America which leads in pharmaceutical narco-terror.
A guy named Pinch is in a pinch cause he got no money, so he turns to the guy who is the second richest man in the world at that moment, and says “you want a newspaper, I promise if you get me out of this pinch I’ll write nothing but wonderful things about you and Mexico and even Lebanon”. And his reply, “Si!
Well faster than you can say “money laundering” the accountants are sighing and the puff pieces are flowing around this great big wonderful world.
Amazingly the price of gold is fluttering like a waltz at $1700.00 an ounce as a dastardly gringo congressman interrupts the joy filled reverie between Carlos and Pinch, kinda like interrupting a cocaine heroin thrillarama. Kinda like what’s happening everyday South of the border. Kinda like shouting “Gunwalker” in a crowded BATF, ‘ Attorney General of the US cafeteria.
Luckily their’s lots of extra cash sitting around collecting dust as this South of the Border thrillarama proceeds, but with gold at $1700.00 per ounce why snort it I mean not that stuff. Si! buy gold Si! buy gold.
Under performing American dollars requisitioned from Eric Holders petty cash drawer to his favorite cartels purchasing tons of gold (“guns! Who needs stinking guns! We got guns up the stinking Wazoo”) from (pick your favorite television gold broker) into the hands of over performing narco terrorist then disappearing into an overheated narco terrorist state (just imagining).
Hey can someone explain what happens when this reverie turns south, and how far south does this go? Just imagine.
Typical of NYT
They continue a long history of Bad Reporting!
Lies and distortions.
I assume that the NY Times approves of Operation Gunwalker then, as well as the murders that go with it. Why they are even scummier then I thought.
Thanks for the truth-telling. Wondering if you feel the same way about this article.
“Has Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned the House Oversight Committee into a bank lobbying firm with the power to subpoena and pressure government regulators? ThinkProgress has found that a Goldman Sachs vice president changed his name, then quietly went to work for Issa to coordinate his effort to thwart regulations that affect Goldman Sachs’ bottom line.” http://bit.ly/nrulNj
Must be on loan from the Obama administration.
Nothing is more fun than reading the original Times piece and browing the rantings of the drones in the blog section.
I would like to know, at what point, when an article is so blatantly and provably false, does a public figure have the right to sue the publisher?
All one has to do is think about how the BATFE carried out this operation without telling the U.S. Department of State. Someone much higher up than an BATFE Special Agent in Charge had to of authorized not telling State. Minimum level would Eric Holder and that would be the bare minimum level. It was most likely ordered out of the White House.
Sad, very sad that our country has been placed in this mess by some nut jobs. Oh boys, take a look over your collective shoulders the cells are being readied.
Someone has to answer in a criminal court for the murder of Brian Terry and probably ICE special agent Jaime Zapata.
Special prosecutor needed, lo mas pronto posible!
Just as an experiment, I searched NPR, PBS, the the NYT (excluding movie results)
NPR: No hits on Gunwalker. Dozens of hits for “Fast and Furious”
PBS: 16,000 hits. All for “Walker”, none for “gunwalker”. About a dozen hits on “Fast and Furious”
NYT: 5 hits on “Fast and Furious” 13 hits on “gunwalker”, of which about half are for the actual program.
Gee, with wall-to-wall coverage like this, no wonder these bastions of journalistic power are having such profitable times. It’s pretty bad when NPR is doing a better coverage of a scandal than the Newspaper of Record.