Sunday, June 15, 2008

Yesterday's QUOTES ...

... non-defensive intervention overseas is a fully bipartisan criminal enterprise ...

... preached freedom while he practiced Guantanamo ...

... over the years there have been dozens of reporters whose newspaper careers ended (or dead-ended) because of excessively accurate reporting ... [via The Sideshow]

... Indeed, it’s the modern pundit’s most basic skill: Even when her facts are wrong, she still knows how to interpret them: ...

Clinton's campaign ripped open a hole in our culture and forced us to look inside. And what we found was a simmering cauldron of crude, sophomoric sexism and ugly misogyny that a lot of us knew existed but didn't realize was still so socially acceptable that it could be broadcast on national television and garner nary a complaint from anybody but a few internet scolds like me. It was eye-opening, to say the least.

It's not difficult to understand why our media stars are so dismissive of the crimes committed by the Bush administration. It's because, with very few exceptions, they've endorsed and defended those crimes. ...

[...] The same stars of the Liberal Media who paralyzed the country for two years with their fixation on Bill Clinton's sex scandal -- and who relentlessly insisted that he be forced from office -- have spent the last seven years calmly telling us that there is no reason to get all excited or upset by what the administration has been doing. As the administration repeatedly broke multiple laws and degraded every last realm of our political culture, most of our Broder-led media class remained nice and "calm and quiet." Of course they don't believe there should be any consequences for the crimes that have been committed by this administration because, as complicit enablers in all of it, those crimes are also their own.

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