NYT "Shoots" Knob Creek Gun Range

The New York Times Magazine's blog ran a cool series of photos this week from the Knob Creek Gun Range's Machine Gun Shoot (held last April), but you have to get past the Old Gray Lady's elitist disdain for gun owners in the fly-over states.

The Times was denied a press pass.  Its photographer was able to gain access because, according to the Times, he's from West Texas (and thus privy to the secret red-neck handshake and vernacular).

Chris’s own request for a pass was denied, too. He was led to believe the reason was that managers of the range were concerned that the magazine would publish a negative story. So Chris, who grew up in Abilene, Tex., and, as he puts it, “speaks the language” of guns, persuaded the son of the man who owned the range, who persuaded the guy who was in charge of the firing line, who persuaded the range’s manager to give Chris the access he needed.

One glaring omission. The Times  failed to note  Knob Creek's singularly appropriate county location:  Bullitt County.

NYT: We Need More Stimulus

In the world of the New York Times, down is up and up is down. How else to explain the Paper of Record's editorial today, urging the government to pass yet more stimulus -- because the last trillion worked out so well for the poor slobs formerly known as its subscribers.

The Times opines, "government spending, as large and as necessary as it has been, has not been enough to revive hiring." To the contrary, the more the Obama administration spends, the worse unemployment gets.

Old Grey Lady Needs a Bailout

The New York Times has borrowed $225 million against its midtown Manhattan headquarters, according to the International Herald Tribune via Drudge.

The Times has watched its circulation and its stock race toward the bottom. The stock has been downgraded as below investment quality. That's right, the Times stock is officially junk. Trading at $7.64 when the market closed on Friday, it costs less than a pizza. Personally, I'd take the pizza.

To be sure, the Times is confronting the same obsolescence that all Old Media face: the Internet. But the so-called Paper of Record has not done itself any favors running some of the garbage it passes for news and commentary -- like Bill Ayers' rationalization of his terrorist days:

The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense. Our effectiveness can be — and still is being — debated. We did carry out symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people, were meant to respect human life and convey outrage and determination to end the Vietnam war. (Emphasis added.)

Well, by that reasoning, those 19 young men who flew planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were only carrying out "symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war" and the like.

Ayers failed to mention that the Weather Underground actually killed people, and the New York Times not only gave him a pass, they publicized his propaganda.

That's why its stock is junk. For all its challenges lately, the market still reflects value.

H/t: Hotair and Drudge