'Talking' Table of Contents What's This Book About?
Part
I The Lawsuit
Section I - New York Times Sued
for Libel by Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage and Sally Pawlick.
In April 2003, the New York Times and its subsidiary, the Boston
Globe, were sued for libel by Sally Pawlick and MCM. The Times had
committed libel in order to defeat the Protection of Marriage Amendment.
The suit by Pawlick and MCM was dismissed in August 2003 by a federal
judge before she even sat down in her Boston courtroom. She had
formerly worked for Ted Kennedy. The lawyers and mystery buffs will
enjoy this chapter, but others may want to move on. Before doing
so, they should look at Chapter 6, which is basically a speech to
a jury about how the New York Times violated Free Speech. This intrigue
was all done under the direction of Times' Chairman Pinch Sulzberger,
who used his enormous power to libel Pawlick and MCM and then to
illegally interfere in the workings of the government of the state
of Massachusetts.
Part II Who Were the Friends of theTimes?
Section II - Where Did the Mysterious Blockers
Come From? Who Stopped Voters from Signing Petitions at Shopping
Malls Across the State and Illegally Violated Voting Rights of Many
Citizens? Would you believe it was the ACLU who was enthusiastically
training these people throughout 2001? There are many pictures included
of the blockers in action, taken by hidden cameras. The Globe never
reported any of this illegal action by their friends.
Section III - Masterminds of
Fraud Hoax Were Uncovered
Blockers were unable to stop voters from meeting in neighborhoods
and churches. They enthusiastically sailed way over the top in signatures.
That's when Pinch got desperate and began to libel those who favored
the Amendment. He said they obtained their signatures fraudulently
by tricking people who were trying to sign a petition about horses.
His Boston Globe printed these libelous stories over-and-over, but
it didn't work either. Then Pinch ran a big story in a Sunday edition
of the Times which went to 1.5 million people nationwide in April
2002. That didn't work either. Then the Globe began to give false,
inaccurate information that the President of the state Senate, Tom
Birmingham, could legally kill the Marriage Amendment all by himself.
Over 200 upset citizens swarmed the Legislature in June in a rare
display to protest the illegal actions advanced by the Globe. Over
500 distraught and angry people came in July when the legislature
adjourned without taking a vote as mandated by the state Constitution.
Those people have not gone away.
Part
III The Decay of the New York Times
Newspaper and Margaret Marshall's Court; It's Not Our Supreme
Court Anymore
Section IV - Why Is This Dysfunctional
Family Leading the World?
The New York Times has been managed like a family-owned shoe store
ever since Adolph Ochs, an enterprising young man from Chattanooga,
bought it on a shoestring in 1896. He lived until 1935, doing well
until about 1914 when his only child, a daughter named Iphigene,
became interested in men and running the newspaper. Her husband,
Arthur Sulzberger, who was liberal but not as radical as Iphigene,
was not Adolph's first choice to succeed him. His conservative nephew
was his choice, but he couldn't hurt Iphigene's feelings. The dilemma
made him a nervous wreck and he never did solve it. When he died,
his daughter and her husband, a womanizer who had married only for
money and power, took control, but not before Arthur had a coronary
occlusion in 1932 which left him with a left hand that was permanently
incapable of bearing weight. The illness came from the stress of
competing for the job. The couple ran the paper until April 1964
when Arthur again became ill and had to quit.
Then the husband of Iphigene's oldest child ran it for two years
until stress got to him at 51 and he died of heart problems. Then
Iphigene's only son, Punch Sulzberger, who was dyslectic and had
difficulty in reading anything, took charge. But he had common sense
and stayed out of the way of the news department, building a thriving
business.
Chapter 16 wonders, "Why Is This Dysfunctional Family Leading
the World?"
Section V - Is Pinch an Extremist? THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL BE WAITING
TO READ.
IT SHOWS HOW TO DEFEAT PINCH SULZBERGER AND MARGARET MARSHALL.
Punch and his son, Pinch are two extremists on homosexuality. The
father is a homophobe. He forced the paper to ignore the growing
presence of homosexuals until he, himself, was forced to recognize
them, too late to have an impact on a commonsense course. He did
this because his mother, Iphigene, lived to age 97, still with a
tremendous liberal/radical influence on the news that was reported
in the paper, but dead-set against homosexuals.
Pinch is infatuated with homosexuals. Ever since he arrived at the
paper in 1984, he has courted them and sneakily gone behind his
father's back to do special favors for them. Pinch has hurt the
newspaper terribly in the eyes of the national press. It has become
fodder for late-night shows since the tragedy about Jayson Blair
last year.
Pinch's huge victory in gay marriage could very well be his demise
as this book becomes more public. His father may bring him back
home and spank him. Pinch's alliance with Chief Justice Marshall,
who is married to the premiere columnist of the Times, Anthony Lewis,
will prove to be a disaster for them both. The three strongest,
smartest members of the SJC all voted against Marshall, giving her
a razor-thin 4-3 victory. The obvious chicanery of both Pinch and
Margaret will be outed in the ensuing six months before the Legislature
has to act upon her demands.
Call your state representative and tell them
how you feel.