Wingnuttia lives up to its name

Glenn Greenwald reports on the right wing meltdown over the New York Times.

Some journalist is going to show up with a bullet in his or her head one of these days because some crazy decided to act on what Michelle Malkin, David Horowitz, and others are exhorting the wackos to do.

When even Mrs. Greenspan has had enough, and the Wall Street Journal is sticking up for the New York Times, you know that we are having a "Does Macy's tell Gimbels" moment and that the mouth-frothers have overdone it:

MS. MITCHELL: Let me, let me show you a Wall Street Journal editorial--a very unusual editorial--that was in the paper on Friday. It said that "The problem with The New York Times is that millions of Americans no longer believe that its editors would make those calculations in anything close to good faith. We certainly don't. On issue after issue, it has become clear that The Times believes the U.S. is not really at war, and in any case the Bush administration lacks the legitimacy to wage it." John, I don't want to really put you on the spot here, but I am. Your paper's news columns also ran this story, and here you have this editorial. It really is a really sharp conflict.

MR. HARWOOD: Couple of points on that. First of all, that editorial wasn't kidding when they said there's a separation between the news and the editorial pages at The Wall Street Journal.

MS. MITCHELL: That's for sure.

MR. SAFIRE: Same with us.

MR. HARWOOD: Secondly, there is a very large gap between the ideological outlook and philosophy of The New York Times editorial page and The Wall Street Journal editorial page. There is not a large ideological gap between the news staffs of those two places, and why would there be? Some of the top people of The New York Times were hired from The Wall Street Journal. What I found shocking about the editorial was the assertion that The New York Times did not act in good faith in making that judgment. I don't know anybody on the news staff of The Wall Street Journal that believes that. I certainly don't. (Emphasis mine.)

UPDATE: Thanks to commenter Vervet for pointing us to Glenn Greenwald's update on the New York Times travel section article. Turns out Rumsfeld gave permission for the photos to be taken and used. So, wingnuts, I guess Rumsfeld is a traitor in your eyes too now, eh? Sorry, you'll have to find another reason for the annihilation of everyone who doesn't agree with your delusional worldview.