Disagreeing with the New York Times is sport around here.  I do it regularly, as does pretty much anyone else who has ever read a copy.  There’s a lot in there, and it’s hard to agree with everything.

But rarely does one find disagreement so vehement and ridiculous as that of Karen Lee Torre, the Connecticut twinkie.  Why a twinkie?  Give her a poke and white goo pops out her orifices.  That’s all there is inside Torre.

Torre goes on a neo-con rant in the Connecticut Law Tribune.  That she’s spewing out the neo-con line is nothing new, as she’s a born-again Ann Coulter, except without the looks and without the balls.  More on that later.  Apparently, no one told Torre-come-lately to the position of rabid neo-con mouthpiece that it’s heyday was more than a decade ago, and it’s now relegated to a few religious zealots and third-grade dropouts. Instead, she has picked up the torch with the apparent expectation that someone would care.  Instead, she’s a three-day-old fish, stinking up the place.

Torre’s silly diatribe rails about the NYT’s failure to publish stories the way she wants them to come out.  Because of their arrogance in not following the news according to Torre, she whines:

I miss the New York Times, the old one, the great one. When it lurched far to the left, I still subscribed for I didn’t want to give up the Book Review, Arts & Leisure or the Connecticut edition. I just passed over the political and editorial sections. Reading the Sunday Times in a porch rocker with the coffee was my pleasure. But when the NYT ran 32 front-page headlines in a row on Abu Ghraib (and 70 plus in all), obsessing over a few bad apples while ignoring thousands of brave soldiers engaged in heroic acts, I couldn’t take it anymore. The Times appeared bent on undermining our military and national security and succoring our enemies. I canceled my subscription and haven’t read the Times, not once, in years. My relatives and many of my friends no longer read it. We won’t help finance Pravda.

The best support Torre can find for public outrage at the Times is that her relative and friends no longer read it?  Has it occurred to her that they never read it before, but just looked at the pictures?

From this overwhelming bit of irrefutable logic, Torre explains that the imminent demise of the Times is not a product of the economy, as is affecting almost all newspapers these days, but is reaction to its leftyism.

NYT’s share price plunged last year to less than five dollars. It has to mortgage its building to stay afloat. It accumulated a mountain of debt and acquired a new sobriquet – “rag sheet.” The Internet and the economy are not the sole factors. Data support the view of those who tie the spiraling downfall (a shocking 60 percent drop in value) to the NYT’s loss of prestige and status after obsessively trying to bring down the Bush administration beginning in 2002.

What data?  Come on, we’re talking about a twinkie here.  Isn’t dreaming it up in the back of her head sufficient data for you?  It is for her.  You see, while newspapers are dropping like flies across the country, Torre has decided that the Times is different, suffering the backlash of its anti-Bush agenda.  Apparently, no one told Torre that the rest of the country has figured out the President Bush isn’t going to have his face carved into Mount Rushmore. 

On the other hand, Bush will be pleased to know that he has one supporter left.  Torre isn’t much, but she’s better than nothing. Maybe she can get the shoeshine concession at the Bush Library, made up of a dozen of America’s finest comic books.  Bush really should reward her steadfast support, particularly in the face of every thinking person’s (and most breathing person’s) rejection in the past few years of his massive failures and near ruination of our country.  Or was that the lefty’s fault too, Karen Lee?

But why is Torre a twinkie, you ask?  Why she’s a fool is obvious, but wacky, ignorant extremists can still show the degree of fortitude to take criticism like a champ,  Ann Coulter just shrugs it off, though it may have something to do with the voices she hears in her head.  So why a twinkie?  I’m glad you asked.

When last I mentioned Torre, who was doing a radio debate with Norm Pattis, and argued almost as much nonsense as she writes in this deluded rant, poor Karen Lee started to cry.  Lacking the strength of conviction or intellect to take a punch, Karen Lee sent me an email whining about how unfair I was to call her a “Federalist Society wag.”  When someone spews the garbage she does, at least have the guts to take some minor criticism.  Instead, Torre’s head spun in circles and white goo started popping out of the many holes in her head.  There’s nothing worse than an ignorant spewing whiner, and Torre owns the Connecticut version of the niche.

There’s no real issue with Torre writing that the New York Times is collapsing under the weight of her ilk’s scathing cancellation of a subscription for not showing “W” the love she thinks he deserves.  That she’s the only one in America who hasn’t figured out yet that Bush wasn’t brilliant isn’t troubling either, since no one really cares that Karen Lee is pathetically behind the times (pun intended). 

But do us all a favor and stop gushing the white goo out.  When you publish something as ridiculous as this, expect to get poked.  It’s not a good enough reason for the rest of us to get smeared by your twinkieness.