July 14, 2006

NYT Alleges Receiving Envelope With 'White Powder'

Update: I call shenanigans!

From Reuters:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times said on Friday it was investigating an envelope received at the paper containing white powder, raising fears of a possible recurrence of anthrax-tainted letters sent to newsrooms and other offices in late 2001.

For a publication that routinely betrays its country, such a hoax would be small potatoes indeed.

Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto, Stop the ACLU, and Vince Aut Morire.

UPDATE: Reuters has updated their story and now reports that the "white powder" has tested as "harmless". UNNAMED SOURCES say that this has lead SOME TO SPECULATE that Bluto's suspicions of a hoax are neither proven true nor false.

UPDATE by Rusty: Whoa......Bluto....methinks thou spakest in haste and anger. The problem with the Times is not that they are intentionally undermining the war effort, it's that they don't understand how revealing Top Secret information could hurt it. Because the Times knows who the real enemy of freedom is (wink-wink, nudge-nudge).

Don't you get it? They are your moral & intellectual superiors.

Anyway, we can still have a little fun with this........

Although we have no evidence to prove Bluto's theory that the someone at the NYTimes may have sent the powder, we think it's a little out there, and there is probably no merit to it, I, like Joshua Micah Marshal, do question the timing.

Hey, if it's good enough for Time, it's good enough for the Jawa.

UPDATE: al Reuters questions the timing. Personally, and although I have no evidence for this, I think the "angry Conservative" who must have sent the letter was Bluto.

UPDATE II: On second thought, although I have absolutely no evidence to back this theory up at all, and since my vacation is blown today anyway.

Cranky...in Philadelphia.
Letter....from Philadelphia.

I question the timing!