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Please, please, please.... don't let Obama, Reid and Pelosi bail out the New York Times. I can see it now, they will declare it some sort of national treasure and keep it afloat with our tax dollars, what few are left.

I approach the New York Times - not every day, but many days - to see (1) the price of their stock and (2) which "aginner" story line made the front page. For those of you who are unfamiliar, an "aginner" is someone who is against ... well, almost everything ... just because they like to be contrary. It's not unlike the lefty equation, Bush-hatred is dissent is patriotic.

Front page aginner stories in the Times routinely demonize the President (or some other Republican - like, say, Sarah Palin) or the state of Israel, and increasingly now, the coal industry. This Christmas morning the Times has chosen - of all the stories in the country, or in the world - with Israel on the receiving end of over 60 rocket attacks yesterday - to go with the anti-coal angle: Coal Ash Spill Revives Issue of Its Hazards.

Full disclosure: I live in a state where the coal industry is paramount. But more than that, I am fascinated by the media process of demonization and incitement.

For years now I have watched the Times and other supposedly-authoritative media outlets work hard to demonize both Israel and American Republicans, building on that "aginner" mentality and inciting hatred all along the way. And now they're employing the same methods with coal. I'm not going to go into a rant about it, but I would just have you notice one thing.

This flood is on the front page of today's NYTimes:

Fifteen homes like this one in Harriman, Tenn., were flooded with fly ash sludge on Monday after a storage pond wall broke. J. Miles Carey/Knoxville News Sentinel, via Associated Press

Note: All of 15 houses were affected and of those, three of them are "likely to be declared uninhabitable,"

BUT but but... a sewage flood in Gaza (March 2007) that killed at least six people and required thousands to evacuate?

Nope, not front page material.

And while the Times hesitates to embarrass their Arab pals, they have no compunction about celebrating them at every possible turn (and taking every conceivable opportunity to promote hijab).

Women voted in a student council election at Jordan University in Amman. Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times

Today, they go even further. This is so despicable that I should have put it at the top, but I write as I go, so you'll just have to suffer the process of discovery along with me.

GENERATION FAITHFUL [?!]
Jordanian Students Rebel, Embracing Conservative Islam

AMMAN, Jordan — Muhammad Fawaz is a very serious college junior with a stern gaze and a reluctant smile that barely cloaks suppressed anger. He never wanted to attend Jordan University. He hates spending hours each day commuting.
As a high school student, Mr. Fawaz, 20, had dreamed of earning a scholarship to study abroad. But that was impossible, he said, because he did not have a “wasta,” or connection. In Jordan, connections are seen as essential for advancement and the wasta system is routinely cited by young people as their primary grievance with their country.

So Mr. Fawaz decided to rebel. He adopted the serene, disciplined demeanor of an Islamic activist. In his sophomore year he was accepted into the student group affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan’s largest, most influential religious, social and political movement, one that would ultimately like to see the state governed by Islamic law, or Shariah. Now he works to recruit other students to the cause.

“I find there is justice in the Islamic movement,” Mr. Fawaz said one day as he walked beneath the towering cypress trees at Jordan University. “I can express myself. There is no wasta needed.”

Across the Middle East, young people like Mr. Fawaz, angry, alienated and deprived of opportunity, have accepted Islam as an agent of change and rebellion. It is their rock ’n’ roll, their long hair and love beads. Through Islam, they defy the status quo and challenge governments seen as corrupt and incompetent.

These young people — 60 percent of those in the region are under 25 — are propelling a worldwide Islamic revival, driven by a thirst for political change and social justice. That fervor has popularized a more conservative interpretation of the faith.

“Islamism for us is what pan-Arabism was for our parents,” said Naseem Tarawnah, 25, a business writer and blogger, who is not part of the movement.

The long-term implications of this are likely to complicate American foreign policy calculations, making it more costly to continue supporting governments that do not let secular or moderate religious political movements take root.

Washington will also be likely to find it harder to maintain the policy of shunning leaders of groups like the Brotherhood in Egypt, or Hamas in Gaza, or Hezbollah in Lebanon, which command tremendous public sympathy....

You did catch these jaw-droppers, did you not?

"It is their rock 'n' roll, their long hair and love beads"

"driven by a thirst for political change and social justice"

We all know how attached the New York Times is to the 60s, and to "political change" a la Obama, but did you ever -in your wildest dreams- imagine they would go so far as to romanticize and glorify "conservative Islam" as part and parcel of their hippiedom?

It's truly mind-boggling for this Times-fan-turned-foe. Mark my words: Dhimmedia's promotion of Islam will ultimately prove terribly dangerous for American Jews. Even those Jews who obediently voted for Obama. And even those Jews who have kept the New York Times in business all these years.

So the race is on. Let's just hope the New York Times goes under before we do.

Signs look to be in our favor: The Times has a $400 million revolving credit agreement due in May, their ad revenues are down nearly 21% from a year ago, they face a selloff of their new skyscraper and/or their stake in the Boston Red Sox,

PLUS their stock is in the toilet...