NY Times Says the Constitution is “Terse & Old”.
This article is from the NRA-ILA (National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action). Is it any wonder that the New York Times has seen a massive erosion of subscribers and advertisers and remains afloat because a benefactor gave it a bailout?
“It is certainly no surprise for gun owners to see the New York Times run a story belittling the United States Constitution. After all, the Times has worked for decades to devalue our founding document.
“[I]ts influence is waning,” opines the Times. It is “terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights.” The paper faults the Constitution for being difficult to amend and reflective of the times in which it was written. While the Times does not go so far as to claim the U.S. Constitution has been bad for America, it does lament that it is of “little current use to, say, a new African nation.”
But it was a much bigger shock when the Times reported in the same story that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a sitting associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and grande dame of the Court’s liberal voting bloc, shares the Times’ dim view of the Constitution. Ginsburg said “I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” Her personal recommendations would instead include “the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Convention on Human Rights.”
None of this should come as a surprise. One wonders, for example, if Justice Ginsburg even looks to the United States Constitution when interpreting it in 2012…” Read the full article here.
Considering their declining readership and revenues, I am amazed the NYT continually marginalizes itself with nonsense like this.
Agreed. Kind of like doing the same foolish thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Similar to the Obama administration.
LOL
Reblogged this on YOU DECIDE and commented:
NY Times could go to HELL!
Thank you!
I Obama is re-elected and is able to appoint one or two more SCOTUS judges, Our constitution will indeed become irrelevant.
Your headline could have been “NY Times getting terse and old.”
Cranky and irascible like the elder who rather than growing in wisdom, is discontent with what life has “dished out.” An opinionated old bat who is only truly happy complaining to as many people as possible, yet rarely lifts the considerable girth out of the comfy old chair to go out and do anything remotely challenging intellectuallly, physically or spiritually. Growing extraordinarly fat from the abundance yet always squawking shrilly that there isn’t enough. Spending hours comfortably chewing the cud of whatever brainless fodder reinforces the increasing smaller, and smaller, and smaller world of possibilities.
It’s odd how narrow-minded the left has become, the glaucoma of liberalism has hampered their viewpoint, and therefore their voice…Such a sad way to grow old.
Wow, that’s a juicy description of one of the nation’s oldest newspapers, Sara. If I could bestow an award for the most colorful comment, yours would win!
Chuckle…a bit overblown perhaps but I was on a roll…
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When our leaders do not respect the Law of the land, our rights must inevitably be at risk.
Thank you, Tom.
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The NY Times sure has worked to advance the progressive cause to render the constitution meaningless. Liberals sure do live in dark abyss’s out of touch with reality.
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I think that it is unfair to call it “terse and old”. It’s a great framework for a country but it has been amended to reflect changing times. Amended it…don’t end it.
they are beyond the pale and pathetic my friend!