Sulzberger Unclothed

Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times, delivered a commencement address at SUNY New Paltz that claims credit for his student generation having properly re-ordered the world, but then having failed to keep that world properly re-ordered:

When I graduated from college in 1974, my fellow students and I had just ended the war in Vietnam and ousted President Nixon.

[But as for today,] sorry. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

You weren’t supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land.

You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights, be it the rights of immigrants to start a new life; the rights of gays to marry; or the rights of women to choose.

You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where oil still drives policy and environmentalists have to relentlessly fight for every gain.

You weren’t. But you are. And for that I’m sorry.

Could Sulzberger be any less subtle about the New York Times’ mission to remake America in his nakedly liberal image?