NY Times Recycles Their October Surprise

The NY Times is obviously concerned about the Nov. 7th election, and they must be feeling that things are not going as well as they'd hoped for the Dems. First they've decided to run a photo collection of Arlington National Cemetary funerals on Page 1 eight days before the election, and then they pulled a golden oldie out of their archives and are running a story about missing weapons in Iraq. As the RNC points out in an email, that sounds a little familiar:

This morning’s New York Times carries a front page story alleging that the “The American military has not properly tracked hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces.” There are 8 days to go in the 2006 election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/world/middleeast/30reconstruct.html?hp&ex=1162270800&en=bfe1488484d2e635&ei=5094&partner=homepage

If all of this sounds just a wee-bit familiar…

On October 25, 2004, the New York Times (in conjunction with CBS News’s 60 Minutes) unleashed their “October Surprise” alleging missing weapons at the al Qa’qaa weapons facility in Iraq. There were 8 days to go in the 2004 election.

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/international/middleeast/25bomb.html?ex=1162357200&en=789331112e1fff3e&ei=5070

It seems that our friends in the mainstream media can’t even get creative anymore when it comes to their late hits. It will take more than a Xeroxed attack for the Democrats to win this election. On to victory.

With the declining readership and influence of the Times, chances are this won't have much impact.