August 31, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today used harsh language, to attack the New York Times, the New York Post and other “media whores,” for their “completely fraudulent” attacks on Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

For the past five months, Rangel has been the target of a barrage of media smears, led by the New York Times, aimed at unseating him from his powerful House post. Sources familiar with the attack on Rangel say that the slanders are being foisted by Wall Street factions, who are desperately pushing for the Federal government to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two bankrupt mortgage giants, to, in effect, bail out the banks at taxpayers expense. The cost of a Federal bailout of the two mortgage companies could double the U.S. Federal debt, which is now at over $9 trillion. Rangel has steadfastly refused to lift the debt ceiling, or go along with the takeover of the two mortgage lenders, causing Wall Street and the City of London to go for his immediate ouster, according to sources familiar with the case.

Lyndon LaRouche denounced “the corruption of the press. This is typical, massive corruption. They are pushing a thoroughly fraudulent story, for reasons that I perfectly well understand.” LaRouche added, “I know what kinds of whores the New York Times editors can be when they want to.”

Today, the New York Post ran yet another smear job against Rangel on its front page, with two full pages of attacks inside. The New York media has assigned top reporters to come up with whatever dirt they can on the longtime leading New York Democrat.

The same New York Times, LaRouche recalled, was much more sympathetic to Adolph Hitler. In an Oct. 15, 1933 New York Times “book review” of Hitler's Mein Kampf, reviewer James W. Gerard heaped praise on the Nazi dictator, eight months after the Reichstag fire and Hitler's coup d'etat, establishing himself as Feuhrer for life. “Hitler has catered,” Gerard wrote, “to the German people who adore the tramp of massed men, the music of military bands, the waving of banner... Hitler could not have attained such power unless he represented the thoughts and aspirations of a majority of the population.”

Gerard continued, “Hitler is doing much for Germany, his unification of the Germans, his destruction of Communism, his training of the young, his creation of a Spartan State animated by patriotism, his curbing of parliamentary government, so unsuited to the German character; his protection of the right of private property are all good; and, after all, what the Germans do in their own territory is their own business, except for one thing--the persecution and practical expulsion of the Jews.”

On Oct. 6, 1996, the New York Times chose to reprint Gerard's Mein Kampf review again, without comment, as part of a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Ochs-Sulzbereger family takeover of the paper.

The New York Post's owner, Rupert Murdoch, LaRouche noted, is widely known as a leading protege of the late British press baron, Lord Beaverbrook, who was another notorious Hitler and Goering aficionado, who at one point had pressed for Britain to join the Axis.