Friday, September 14, 2007

Subsidizing Sedition

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: The New York Times gives moveon.org a discount on a full-page ad smearing Gen. David Petraeus.

Does anyone think for a minute that the Times would grant a similar discount for a group backing Petraeus?

This being a nation where speech is — or should be — absolutely free, moveon.org has every right to express its opinions. And the New York Times has just as much right to publish any opinion it wishes.

That said, there's an ugliness about this moveon.org advertisement that many Americans recognize immediately. And they no doubt agree with Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch who, in unusually blunt language on the Senate floor this week, said of its sponsors:

"These people are nuts."

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