The NY Times has done it again – Genocide on a massive scale is OK if it is done by the Leftists (that fill its own ranks).

In writing about Mao Tse Tung’s Genocide (more than Stalin and Hitler put together), we are entreated to the following procession of doublethink:

“I worry that some things may be hyped. ”

“Judith Banister estimated 30 million; Basil Ashton also came up with 30 million Xizhe Peng suggested about 23 million.”

“Simply plucking a high-end estimate out of an article and embracing it as the one true estimate worries me; if that is stretched, then what else is?”

“Another problem: Mao comes across as such a villain that he never really becomes three-dimensional. As readers, we recoil from him but don’t really understand him. ”

“But Mao’s legacy is not all bad”

“In the same way, I think, Mao’s ruthlessness was a catastrophe at the time, brilliantly captured in this extraordinary book – and yet there’s more to the story.”

Well Kill Me a Kulak ! Its like Duranty Deja Vu All Over Again.

Do I smell a Pulitzer?

(And they wonder why readership is nosediving)