Joseph Weisenthal

jerrybrito:

Huh. You can “change the terms of a campaign pledge” and it’s not “breaking the pledge” it seems. Jim is right. Waiting five days to sign a bill matters. Why else wouldn’t they be doing it? There isn’t anybody in this town who doesn’t know that the “technical difficulties” excuse is B.S.

NYT is indeed clever here. And I don’t care what anybody says, they did have a double standard about keeping their reporter’s kidnapping quiet for his safety (which I’m all for btw, props to the paper and the other publications that abided by their desire) and keeping state secrets quiet, despite concerns over national safety. (Of course, that being said I’m skeptical of any claims the administraation made over what was keeping the US safe, though I doubt the Times was in a position to adquately judge is.)