Posted on 04/23/2006 4:59:39 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
April 23, 2006
On the public-access TV show I host, 'Right Angle', the topic this past week was immigration. A Cornell campus radical expressed the view that not only should our borders be completely open, but that we shouldn't screen immigrants for criminal history or even . . . for being known Al-Qaeda members.
Now, if the radical making these sophomoric suggestions isn't quite a sophomore - he's in fact a grad student - perhaps some slack can be cut him as he continues to live, largely divorced from reality, within the liberal cocoon of the ivy-league tower.
The same defense cannot be offered to explain away the equally churlish remarks that Dave Rossie serves up week after week. Rossie is associate editor of the Gannett newspaper, the Binghamton [NY] Press & Sun Bulletin. In addition to his editing duties, Rossie writes a syndicated weekly column that, in its juvenile tone, reads like something worthy of an over-the-top 10th grader.
Take Rossie's column this week, "The White House needs to be disinfected".
To get a flavor for Rossie's 'wisdom', check out these nuggets:
[Tom DeLay] is busy contemplating the possibility that the next time he and his buddy Jack Abramoff get together it won't be at St. Andrews Royal and Ancient, but a prison exercise yard. The intensely moral Tom DeLay, and those two adulterous frauds, Henry Hyde and Dan Burton, who pushed the House to impeach Clinton, have been silent as the Sphinx on Bush's abuse of his office and the Constitution. The damning evidence continues to pile up, not just around the Liar in Chief but every member of this appallingly corrupt administration. They have long gone past being a national embarrassment to the point where they pose a threat to the rest of the world. You've got a vice president and a defense secretary who think they can bomb their way to a new world order channeling through a puppet who thinks Armageddon is just around the corner. Rossie believes that mere impeachment of the president is insufficient: "the issue has gone beyond the point where it can be resolved by a simple impeachment."
Rossie's proposed solution? To invite other leading countries of the world to boycott the US:
"What if the other great nations of the world — England, Germany, France, Italy, China, India, Japan , Canada, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Norway — most of which are governed by rational or at least semi-rational leaders, were to present us with an ultimatum: Stop throwing your weight around and putting us at risk of World War III and the nuclear holocaust that would accompany it, or we will show you sanctions such as you've never seen before. If you want to be an international pariah, do it on your own time and in your own backyard and leave the rest of the neighborhood alone."
So here we have an editor of a paper that is part of one of the most influential national newspaper chains calling for a boycott of the US that might well plunge us into a depression that would make the gasoline-price flap look like a day at the beach. And remember, this same fellow, when he puts his editor's cap back on after churning out this kind of stuff, decides every day what his newspapers readers will and won't see.
Gannett/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.
Not anymore :)
Let's just boycott Rossie with a "Is that all you can think of, what a bore."
I have been boycotting Gannett noosepapers for years.
You can't fix "STUPID", but a boycott of his paper may starve "stupid"...
Me too.
Gannet also publishes the absolutely inane Ithaca Journal. I suppose that these dissolute local rags are duplicated all over the country.
The press in our country is an embarrasment to everyone. Even the loony left is embarrassed by guys like this. Or, then again, maybe not.
Radical? that's pretty much what the Mccain/Kennedy bill is advocating!
Boycott of America, eh? Great idea. In turn, America can suspend all foreign aid, prevent the Red Cross and US military from responding to national disasters worldwide, put a hold on all immigration, restrict all imports such that what comes in has to equal what's going out of the country, and suspend all charities to aid foreign endeavors. Then we'll see who can't live without who.
Amazing how far divorced from reality the left has become.
They are becoming decidedly more radical in their demands.
Yon Rossie takes an odorous dump on ALL his ancestors. Eternal shame be on his parents for raising such a child. Worse yet on himself for betrayal of their love and hope.
Better that his Father take him for a long walk in the woods.
Can the Constitution hold two mutually-cancelling provisions within it? Freedom of speech and treason? Who decides which prevails at any given time?
Who can bring the charges agains the subject slime?
Ummm .. does he realize that many of those counties have their companies here in the US ?
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