Top 11 reasons The New York Times described TooStupidToBePresident.com as "very mildly funny at best and plain old stupid at worst." - 08/22/04 11. The Times doesn't get a lot of things. 10. Story based on notes of Jayson Blair. 9. The Times' Judith Miller offended by TooStupidtoBePresident.com's "Top 11 New York bridges purchased by Judith Miller." 8. Miffed by TooStupidToBePresident.com's ridicule of The Times' "plain old stupid" aluminum tube exclusive (see The Oily Grail cartoon from February 2002). 7. Scooped by TooStupidToBePresident.com's early 2002 mentions of the now infamous August 6 Presidential Daily Briefing (PBD) ( Star Trek: The Wrath of Condi and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). 6. TooStupidToBePresident.com was so "stupid" that it didn't believe the administration's WMD claims, as any intelligent publication would have. 5. The Times has a humor chip on its shoulder because it doesn't have a comics page. 4. Transference: The Old Gray Lady doesn't have the ovaries to offer that criticism of the administration. 3. Inside joke: CIA operatives planted at The Times are at odds with those planted at TooStupidToBePresident.com. 2. TooStupidToBePresident.com is a media force too big to be ignored by the one-time newspaper of record. 1. Ahmad Chalabi said so. |