Daily News, Daily Distoritions, Daily Lies.

Newspaper publishers have come a long way since genuine reformers like Horace Greeley - they now, more often than not, are in the mold of Mort Zuckerman - who uses his media empire as a conduit for his personal, political and financial agendas. A few months ago he was reminding us just how awful it would be for New York if a skyscraper went up in his neigborhood. The reason we were to be concerned, he informed us, was because shadows would fall on Central Park, and by conincidence, his neigbohood. In his latest crusade he tells us homeowners  have no right to their homes, or even the right to complain,  when his rich developer friends want them....

City Council members Charles Barron, Letitia James and John Liu - none of
whom represents the neighborhood -

and unelected officials and developers do?


The persistence of the Underground Railroad claims, despite the lack of
historical support, leads to a suspicion that something else is at work - a
desire to stop development or to wring money out of taxpayers as the city
exercises eminent domain.

Now we're not good capitlists if we resist the government siezing private
property against our will? Of course, the city's own shill "consultant' firm's historians determined that the homes had historic value - so here, the DN (not surprisingly) is blatently lying. And just how is building more parking lots in urban areas which create more motivation to drive good for anyone except greedy short term thinking developers, like the people Mort Zuckerman keep company with


Billions of private dollars have been committed to projects ranging from
skyscrapers to affordable housing. To stand in the way by cynically playing
on the charged issue of the city's slave past is wrong.

well now we get to the root of it, no? Billions of private dollars...they
forgot to mention the billions in city and state money and benefits being
given over to these developers...Apparently cynically touting jobs and
economic growth is okay, but private homeowners defending their property
against Mort Zuckerman's influential friends is sacreligious....

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All this, keep in mind in borough that started to boom in spite of the
goverment's heavy handed intervention. The only reason developers are
getting the goverment to step in now is to literally drive out the
competition and pesky middle class homewoners and shopkeepers.

Yes, Napoleon despised a nation of shopkeepers too. And that what this all boils down to -both locally and with foreign policy - the organic conservatism of Edmund Burke (who defended America's revolution in Parliment but warned that Frances was a disaster), vs. a nation of ideaology that harks back to the French revolution, through Marxism to its repulisive Neocon iteration today.

Zuckerman of course, is a warhawk, who advocates open borders for the US (but curiously, not for Israel) and bombing Iran. I used to think people like Zuckerman where hypocrites, but when one gives it careful thought, he is anything but a hypocrite - and if you think about the values that lead up to his line of reasoning, he's far worse than the 'next Hitler' he warns us is just around the corner of every (muslim) Middle eastern country. How many innocent lives have been lost thanks to Zuckerman's (and other neocon) lies (and how many Zuckerman's, Cheney's and such are serving in Iraq)? The sad thing is he really doesn't care.