Just think, this passes for "journalism."  Hide facts that hurt your "angle", repeat lies that support your story, etc.

Helene, Condi doesn't want to run, that's why talk has diminished.

I just laugh thinking that these people (MSM reporters) are viewed to be so smart and clever by some.  They're nothing more than childish propagandists. 

black conservatives who hold positions of power, and they are blind to their own outrageous racism. 

It's repugnant, but in repeatedly behaving the same way toward successful conservative blacks, the left exposes its long-held convicton that conservative blacks have "escaped" from the Democrat plantation.

Respectfully Mr. Sheppard, while I do not agree with the Times and their blood dripping comments from foreigners, Condi Rice has been second only to that broom riding Albright dancing with Kim of Korea.

What is interesting in this hit piece though is the guns trotted out. Dick Armitage and Colin Powell are both CFR Rockefeller shills as is intelligence agent Bob Woodward. They owe their careers to the Rockefellers and when trotted out to slam someone it is because that someone is off the reservation.

Condi Rice was placed by Bush into the role that Nixon placed that other Sec. of State now forgotten when Nixon and Kissinger were off making policy. Rice in this case has played the role of diplomatic carrot while Bush, Cheney and the military cast assembled are preparing for a real dust up in the Middle East for the final curtain call there.

Sec. Rice has been an extreme lightweight. Her CFR underlings at State have run circles around her in allowing the arming of factions that are anti American. Her entire purpose in the administration is to give diplomatic cover for a war.........people will notice when the Americans met the Iranians it was a male chosen to kick their behinds as much as another male named Cheney was sent to Pakistan to rattle that leaders cage.

I had hopes for Ms. Rice, but while her brain is above IQ her inspirational policy is akin to another professing Sunday School teacher in Jimmy Carter. As one blogger here always signs his blogs, the dog barks and the caravan moves on.........that is Condi Rice.

I have the greatest respect for President Hoover and up until Milton Friedman died I had the utmost respect for the Hoover Institute, but not any more. Except for Mr. Victor Hansen who is brilliant that cast there is nothing but Affirmative Action bots. Dinesh D'Souza is a computer programmed mind of Conservative facts, but is no Conservative at all. In one screaming email directed at me, I was called names.......and he ridiculed Conservatives and Libertarians as worthless as no one filled their lecture seats.

D'Souza is the infamous Hoover Fellow who blamed America in his book for 9 11.

So Condi Rice should fit in well with Hoover as the place is a squatting cesspool of leftist money funding foreigners and mediocre types who accomplish nothing, have no original thought and smile pretty for the cameras.

The cutting edge policy makers are now at American Enterprise and Ms. Rice will not be invited there.

The Times is simply hammering Rice, because she is not going to join CFR, has not bowed sufficiently to the cartels and it is that political season when all good black people are reminded to vote Obama.......for while he gets to play in the mansion he will be shown the door again to the Senate where he like Jesse Jackson can then pretend for the rest of his life that he was a contender and not a manufactured vote getter.

Ms. Rice instead of formulating a policy which would protect America, advance America and our allies instead signed off on perpetual diplomacy and allowed others to do the heavy work. For a Conservative she has been as great a disappointment as when Bush 41 tanked all the work Reagan did in bringing Hispanics into the party.

Ms. Rice should have looked to Justice Brown and Justice Thomas for examples in how to deal with holding an office......or President Bush should have just nominated Janice Rogers Brown for Sec.

Thank you for your time.

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Helene is just jealous of Condi's achievements.

Interestingly enough, Ms. Cooper can be tough on the other side as well:

http://www.nytimes.c...

 This quote has it covered:

"Hypocrisy rules on 5/28/07 at 11am

Isn't it interesting how quickly the so-called liberal "tolerance" disappears when put to the test?"

Yet these people tell Conservatives how intolerant they are and say Bush is responsible for the "tone" of politics in Washington.  What a joke.

Never argue with an idiot.  They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Translated to the physical, this attack would be called assault and battery. And not only that, it would be deemed a hate crime.

Now that Rove and Gonzales have decided to leave the MSM are now going after Rice.

I just sent the following comment to Cooper: 

Meoooow!  Hissss! 

And just what have you done for your country, Ms. Cooper???

A comment plus a few words of solace for my friends on the right....After reading Noel's trenchant intro to the Times' "trash"[ing] of Condi Rice--labeled as an "assault" no less--ruthlessly penned by Helene Cooper with the apparent intent to do violent damage to the legacy of our current Secretary of State, I could easily have expected a merciless "hit" piece. However, to my [not very] great surprise, the vicious harangue was nowhere to be found. Instead, there was a--perhaps not perfectly--but at least reasonably balanced portrait of Dr. Rice as she enters the closing stages of her service to the Bush presidency and to the nation.

Both detractors and supporters of Dr. Rice are quoted by Ms. Cooper. But, to make his case, Noel highlights the former, and ignores the latter. Thus, he neglects to mention any of the several points favorable to Rice raised by Ms. Cooper, such as her success in "lowering tensions between America and its allies"; the facilitation of "a truce that led to [North Korea's] shutdown of its main nuclear reactor in July'; or the "cobbl[ing] together a six nation diplomatic effort to rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions." Praised as a "pragmatic thinker", her deermined efforts toward an Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation are documented as well as her pride in the spread of democratic ideals to such unlikely places as Afghanistan.

Then there is Noel's charge that "Cooper ignores" Forbes' magazine list of powerful women in which "Rice was considered by Forbes as America' most powerful woman". The claim is somewhat puzzling considering Cooper's following observatioon" "Forbes has twice ranked her as the world's most powerful woman". Cooper further notes that "GQ magazine ranked her the most powerful person in Washington...and Time has listed her as one of the world's most influential people four times". May I just mark it down as an oversight, Noel?

Regarding the use or misuse of the letters to the editor and online comments about Rice's return to Stanford University, I think the criticism is fair. (And I'm referring to that which is directed at Cooper--not Rice.) That particular segment of the article skewed facts and perspective, and deserves the criticism it is getting here. The rest of the article does not.

Oh yeah...the 'few words of solace'. Year after year, I have heard various doom and gloom laments from the right about the liberal dominance in the media and academia, and that with its sheer pervasiveness and capacity for influence, the very survival of the Republican party is in jeopardy. Well, to borrow from Twain, the reports of your demise have been greatly exaggerated. The Republican party--and particularly the conservative wing of the party--has not only survived, but thrived. Just to remind you, less than a year ago, Republicans controlled the Executive Branch, both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Federal judiciary, the majority of governorships, the majority of state legislatures....now that's what I call dominance. [And it took, with the possible exception of Viet Nam, the most unpopular war in American history to even slightly shift the balance of political power.] Toss in the fierce advocacy of the conservative print media, talk radio, opinion journals, pundits, Fox News, and even NewsBusters by golly, and, well, it begs the question, "you wanna swap"?

Jer