THE NEW YORK TIMES---ALL CUP AND NO LATTE
Another Welfare Recipient Takes the Paper in an Entitlement Direction

Sullivan again attacks the New York Times for their slanted stories. Fisking the Times has become a staple on the web. Everyone blames editor Howell Raines. They are wrong. The blame lies with the Trust Fund Baby publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr.

Sulzberger is a man without a drop of sweat equity in the Institution it took others more than a century to build. He has no sense of what it took to create one of the great institutions in the world. To him it is just a toy. A cute little puppy mixed in with all the other privileges, money, and whatever else it is these Trust Fund Babies are given without going through the agony of work; without risking anything. "Here sonny, here's The New York Times. Play with it for a few years." Why should He end up with the Times? Because He is Arthur Sulzberger Jr., that's why. He was entitled to it, just because. Another welfare recipient, only this one is on a higher, more spiritual plane.

And like all recipients of welfare, he's on a personal Left Wing crusade. He's no different than lots of Trust Fund Babies before him as well as all the recipients of welfare in general who are actually angry about having everything without working; wishing they had a real job, but who wants to toil at the bottom like some bum, waiting all those years for success and never knowing if you're going to get there or not? So little Arthur finds The Times under his tree one 4th of July. You just know how guilty he felt. It's going to be tough trying to expiate all that guilt, but little Arthur is going to try.

He's not actually going to GIVE his money away. But he'll do the next best thing. He gives the paper to a liberal ideologue. One who will make the paper THE voice of the Left. THE champion the entitlement classes; teacher unions, class action attorneys, welfare recipients, and the academic Left. All the muscle put into the institution by people before him withers. The paper quakes under an Atkins Political Diet drained of carbohydrate so all that's left are the fats and oils of their slippery writers with just enough tasty meat once in a while to keep the paper going.

Circulation within the 20 million population of metro New York is barely 100,000, meaning this one dollar newspaper is read by just 1/200th of the city which is home for The Times. Nobody in New York is being fooled. The only readers are those chattering classes and elites in "the blue states" who subscribe. The New York street guys know crap when they see it. Rancid garbage when they smell it. They watch FOX News, read the Post or Daily News, and get the rest of their info from Maxim or on the Web.

The paper is all hat and no cattle. All cup and no latte'. Too bad. But that's the way the Trust Fund Babies crumble.