[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]Over at the Los Angeles Times, the left-wing ideologues who dictate policy, look upon Andrew Malcolm as the crazy aunt who sleeps in the doghouse and isn’t allowed inside when company comes.
Mr. Malcolm, who writes the Top of the Ticket essay at latimes.com, has gained widening national attention in recent months for his daring reporting — that is, he will publish sensitive news stories the Lawdy, Lawdy, How I Love That Superman in the White House crowd manages to keep out of the print edition.
Especially in the last year and a half, the Times has calculatedly passed over news that would be embarrassing for President Mumbles Bumbles Stumbles.
Heaven help you if the Times is your main or only source of information. You may as well come to my house, dash into the backyard, straddle my favorite fence and bay at the moon.
You will glean more news gazing blankly skyward than by studying the news-starved Times.
It has not been a serious newspaper probably for the last five years. As a news source, the present Times reminds me of the old National Enquirer before it turned a leaf and started reporting important stories that left-wing newspapers shunned because they would damage President Mumbles Bumbles Stumbles.
One of the hot but cleverly ignored stories of early July — by left-wing television and left-wing newspapers — has been the sizzling interview that the Obama-appointed head of Nasa, the space agency, granted those purveyors of Muslim objectivity, the boys (no girls allowed) of Al Jazeera.
Here is what Nasa chief Charles Bolden told the Arab network:
When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.
Shocking, isn’t it? Thrice, I should say.
No. 1 shock: That our extremely Muslim-dedicated President should soberly issue such a command.
No. 2 shock: That the President gave the Nasa director such an order, entirely unrelated to space, driven only by his crudely hidden Muslim agenda.
No. 3 shock: That Mr. Malcolm reported this in the Times’s online edition, which is openly scorned by the print journalists. He genuinely nails his print brethren who managed to keep it out of view.
Further, in the following portion, Mr. Malcolm, prominently, courageously, credits Byron York, a major conservative essayist in Washington, with breaking the story. That is gutsy, again, even though for normal newspapers it would be routine.
Meanwhile, the leading left-wing media — The New York Times, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, the liberal cable networks and the three over-the-air networks — all have hunkered down into Protect Obama mode for this story.
Here is how Mr. Malcolm concluded his timely essay:
Without the vigilant Byron York, Bolden's bold statement might have gone unnoticed at home, which perhaps was the goal.
Actually, even with the vigilant York's report and his amazing follow-up, the story has largely gone unnoted offline, drawing virtually no coverage from major newspapers and broadcast news operations. They were more focused over the holiday weekend on the latest gaffe by GOP party chairman Michael Steele, who's been filling the political clown role while VP Joe Biden was in Iraq celebrating Obama's war success.
Bolden was in the Middle East as part of a conga line of Obama folks celebrating the first anniversary of the president's Cairo speech to the Muslim world. In Bolden's own remarks in Egypt, recounted by York, the NASA chief noted it has been four decades since the first moon landing. Bolden candidly admitted that under Obama:
–“NASA is not only a space exploration agency, but also an Earth improvement agency.”
–“We're not going to go anywhere beyond low Earth orbit as a single entity. The United States can't do it.”
