Anthrax sent to the NYTimes

I'm quite sure that the rightwing media figures who called the NYTimes traitors for printing the banktapping story (which was already very public,) will take no responsibility for this.

After all, it was satire; they didn't really mean it when they screamed treason at the NYTimes editor and reporters. Right?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times on Friday received a letter containing a suspicious white powder and a copy of a recent editorial in which the paper defended its coverage of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism programs. Tests found the powder to be harmless.....

Mathis confirmed that the envelope included a copy of a June 28 editorial entitled "Patriotism and the Press" with an "X" marked through it.

Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary on June 26, "But the New York Times and other news organizations ought to think long and hard about whether a public’s right to know in some cases might override somebody’s right to live."