NYT Runs Elephant Dung Mary Picture

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Wed Feb 8, 2006 at 9:20 am PST • Views: 758

The New York Times won’t print the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, out of sensitivity to Muslim readers. But they don’t hesitate to reach back seven years and publish the picture of the Virgin Mary made out of elephant dung: A Startling New Lesson in the Power of Imagery. (Hat tip: TKS.)

It’s a lesson, all right—a lesson in Gray Lady hypocrisy. But it’s neither startling nor new.

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