I sure the NYT has its fill of the mentally impaired.

They are putting bomb sniffing dogs in each office. 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party,the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

How outrageous. It's amazing how much liberals have to go through to justify their positions.

I agree the msm does not report good news as quickly as it does bad but this disgusting act deserves all the media attention it gets. Over 100 people were murdered and most of the news networks acknowledged that this as new low even for Al Queda.

If this happenned in the United States, it would be on every news network for months. Here are a few clips from the NYT article

"The blasts, coming after a marked drop in violence in Baghdad after the
infusion of American troops into the capital and a shift by Sunni
tribes against the insurgency "

"Officials said insurgents had shifted tactics, because increased
checkpoints and roadblocks have made it harder to detonate the car
bombs that killed much larger numbers of people in the past. "

"Iraqi security officials said the women were mentally disabled, but offered no conclusive evidence."

"Attacks have fallen 60 percent across the country since June."

“Their car bomb capabilities have been badly disrupted so now, as we
saw today and as we’ve seen for some time, they are moving toward
suicide vests, in this case suicide vests worn by women"

“If the Americans withdraw it will definitely affect things,” he added. “It would be a disaster for Iraq.”

"officials at the Ghazil market concluded after studying the bomber’s severed head that she had Down syndrome. "

I realize that some of the article has been appended but I imagine most of it is in its original form. The NYT acknowledged that attacks are down, car bomb capablilities badly disrupted. Yes the NYT can have a liberal bias, but this article was fair and balanced.

Hillary has a friend

isn't funny how the finger of blame is immediately cast upon the us for any discrepancy be it fact or fiction and no matter how miniscule it might be, and the mere existance of the us is deemed a threat to all mankind, but something as aggregious as this is hardly even aknowledged and all but ignored. when and what are we going to do to start the push to send the nyt and it's clones to the relevence of a used piece of toilet paper floating in the bowl. why do we continue to let this kind of public opinion of self hating, we deserve it, it's all our fault, we are the evil ones, perpetuate with lies, rumor, and innuendo to such a level unchallenged. why isn't there a broadly published newspaper that challenges the nyt but publishes facts and truth and is uplifting as to how the us is a leader in advancement of the world instead of derogatory end to civilization. god i wish i had the money cause i'd make it happen. i'd bet it'd bring the newspaper back into a profitable business again instead of how they are all struggling to survive now. why don't we push hard to remove them from our society like a cancerous tumor. just stand up against them and provide an aleternative against them, is there anyone out there willing to try. 

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In totally related news, the New York Times Company (symbol NYT)
reported Thursday that, though it turned a profit in its fourth
quarter, December revenues declined a heart-stopping 22.4%.

In an act of self-preservation, the NYT apparently axed their fact-checking and research departments. There may be deeper cuts still to come. Some say Times paper carriers and street venders are next, they'll have commissions cut by as much as 25% (10 cents), and it's predicted many will then be forced into the poverty line at soup kitchens.

So goes the war on the news.

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The term retard, ie short for retardation is correct in discribing someone with below average intelligence or motor function. See link above. It also includes an accurate discription of someone who has down syndrome. Simply because some people (usually children) use the term "retard" as a put down DOES not change the meaning of the word. Don't fall into the lib trap of not liking certain words and trying to remove them from the language.

So Al-Queda is running out of suicidal nut-jobs and now they're taking the innocent? Where's the outrage NYT? You spend more time demonizing Bush than expressing ANY concern about terrorists.

i think the media needs to take out the term "suicide" in their description of the bombing.  These women did not commit suicide they were murdered like the rest of the victims. 

The drive by media in general and the NYT in particular outrageously ignore another in a series of heinous acts on the part of the middle east terrorist. 

Lest we forget, the NYT put the acts of a few rogue US soldiers putting underwear on prisoners' heads on their front page above the fold for over forty days.   

Whenever I am in a room where there is a TV with one of the news broadcasts from one of the drive by channels, I turn it to another channel or I turn it off.  Whenever I see a copy of the NYT laying around the office, it gets chucked in the trash can where it belongs. 

These people should be run out of business - the sooner the better.   

In the first place anyone that straps a bomb to themselves, places it in their car, buries it under a road or otherwise targets the explosive device towards civilians can't be playing with a full deck to start with.  That leads me to assume that all suicide(?) bombers are mentally impaired to some degree in one form or another.

What gripes my ass is that in the blatant and obvious pursuit of political/ideological ambitions the demedia seeks to deflect criticism from those that engage in the bombings of innocents to the Bush Administration and their policy.  I wonder if the NY Times would be so interested in questioning their own policies if a bomber walked into their office and detonated an explosive device?   Somehow, I doubt that would be the case. 

In doing so the demedia becomes as much an enabler of such senseless, distructive acts as those directing the implementation of these despicable, inhumane missions.

What a peaceful world it could be if the media would unite and speak out against such barbaric actions rather than hand-wringing and/or second-guessing about motivation.  There is no motivation worthy nor valid reason to justify the actions of an individual or a group of individuals that engage in such bombings.  Not even those that are mentally impaired such as the bombers and their enablers afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome as the demedia demonstrates on a near daily basis.

If the NY Times and the rest of the demedia were truly appalled at the situation in Baghdad it seems practical that they would start condemning those that are making Baghdad and much of the rest of the Middle East an inhospitable place rather than attacking those that are trying to improve the region.  It is obvious by the demedia's reporting that they have as little regard for the lives of innocent Iraqis as the bombers they consistenty provide excuses for. 

The reporters in this report did a good job of CYA.  It is almost subliminal bias.

 On the first read it is hard to find something to complain to the omsbudsman.

 The women are not called suicide bombers.  The term "suicide bombers" is not used.  They quote Ambassador Crocker and U.S. military about "suicide vests."

They quote a witness indicating stating that one of the bombers had a young boy with her.

They do not have anything about the story in other newspapers that one of the bombers was a woman suffering from Down's syndrome who had a stall in the market.

They have nothing in the story about the bombs being detonated remotely.  That would support the story that the women  were suffering from Down's syndrome.

The cynic in me says that the NYT will not follow up to find out if either of the bombers were suffering from Down's syndrome.

Thousands of hours and hundreds of pages investigating Abu Ghraib prison  and Haditha, but I predict not another paragraph following up on the issues of remote dentonation or Down's syndrome.

From the point of view of the NYT's editors, the purpose of the story is to show that the surge is not working.  They have no interest in evidence that al Qaeda unconscionably uses the handicapped.