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December 13, 2007
Required Reading: NY Times' Spineless Comments Pages
To get a rousing sense of what people are thinking, get ye to the new comments sections on some articles in the New York Times. Because the site gets a worldwide audience, the stories can get some eye-opening comments.
Case in point: Today the Times threw itself open for comments on the story, "Shootings Test Limits of New Self-Defense Law," about how a man in Texas shot and killed two illegal immigrants robbing a neighbor's home. The story says this:
PASADENA, Tex. — Joe Horn’s home was his castle, but what about his neighbor’s home?When Mr. Horn, a 61-year-old retiree living with his daughter and her family in a growing subdivision in this Houston suburb, saw two burglars breaking into the house next door on Nov. 14, he called 911 and grabbed his shotgun.
Moments later, after what the police say was a confrontation on Mr. Horn’s front lawn, the two men — both illegal immigrants — lay dead on winding Timberline Drive, leaving behind a pillowcase stuffed with jewelry and about $2,000 in cash.
As I write the story has almost 500 comments. What gladdened my liberal-hawk relative-of-Texas-gun-nuts heart are the comments in favor of the shooting and a tougher approach to crime control. These views horrified the hand-wringing sob sisters from Europe, but that's free speech here in the non-dhimmi USA. The Times is finding it attracts readers who do not always toe the liberal perspective on crime and other issues. I'm all in favor of the exchange of ideas from both sides of this issue.
What bothered me greatly, however: the Times did not run my reasonable, thought-provoking comment, wherein I raised a compelling point nobody else voiced. Here it is:
The two men should not have been shot. However, look on the bright side -- they're leaving a MUCH smaller carbon footprint, and isn't that what we all want? Mr. Horn was acting to save the environment as much as his neighbor's property.
For all its affectations of robust discussion, the Times lacked the guts to run a really edgy, hip kind of "green" comment like mine. That's just sad. I'll have to try again. I wonder what the problem was.
Van | 12/13/07 at 08:02 PM | Categories: NYC
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