He left off the second half: "and the 'solution' is always more money and political power for the Left"
Ted Stevens ping
I know this is true because the press, and "experts," have told me so.
Only problem here is that it is pretty comprehensively clear that Stevens is indeed guilty of major corruption. Everyone in Alaska has been fully aware of this for decades. He was an active member of the culture of corruption Sarah has been fighting.
Whether his conviction has been tossed out on a technical ground has nothing to do with whether he is worthy of representing the GOP in the Senate.
He isn’t. I’m very glad he’s gone.
I’d like to say I fully agree with the author on the damaging effect of having theoretically neutral institutions become advocates for a particular cause.
I just disagree that Stevens is a good example. The others he gives are far more appropriate.
This is where situational ethics gets you and the belief that there are really no black and white truths and falsehoods. Everything is just a shade of gray.
We have all been living in a society of fluid ethics for so long that students now see nothing wrong with cheating on a test. Researchers no longer record the data before giving it a gentle massage to get it to confirm their predetermined, desired outcome. Spouses cheat on each other without a twinge of guilt. People cheat on their taxes and are awarded with sweet political appointments. If they can cheat, why can’t everyone? We are living in a reprobate society.
We have reached the tipping point where lying is so commonplace that the chances are everything is a lie and we act accordingly.
Another RAT-inspired media hatchet job to remove and disgrace the biggest political threat to the demoncRAT agenda—Sarah Palin.
At the Republican primary debate in Des Moines the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hand if they believed global warming was a serious threat. Like trained seals they all immediately raised their hands, except for Fred Thompson. When they noticed that Fred wasn't going along, they rather sheepishly lowered their hands. Fred said he doesn't do hand waves.
Fred was the overwhelming choice for the nomination here at FR.
Good advice for everyone.
This is why character is so important.
We chatter on and on about a candidates stated positions as if he were in a moral vacuum. As if what they say has meaning regardless of the candidate's disposition towards honor or dishonor.
First establish the candidates honesty. Once that's established then and only then should we consider his words.
.....“Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
What seems ignored by journalists and industry CEO’s is that their liberal, often amoral, view of the world is not shared by most of the customers in their market. These customer were ultimately alienated and lost.
The internet is not only replacing the traditional news media but serves as a “checks and balances” mechanism of all media. Free Republic is a pioneer in this endeaver.
Very good essay. Thanks for posting it.
If you are going to talk about malicious prosecution of Republicans, then you have to include the big one: Watergate.
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Ted Stevens isn't guilty after all. Imagine that. His case was just tossed out of court for prosecutorial misconduct . . . after the 2008 election, when the charges cost him his seat in the U.S. Senate. Add Ted to the ever-growing number of exclusively Republican non-crooks who are frog-marched by partisan elements in the American justice system in time to ruin their electoral chances, only to see the actual charges vanish in a waft of political smoke once their seat is safely in the hands of the opposition party. Remember the horrible, patently unconstitutional actions of Tom Delay, who was forced out of the 2006 race? Whatever happened to those charges, by the way? They seem to have dropped off the judicial radar. And then there's the prosecution of Scooter Libby for "lying" about not lying about not outing Valerie Plame. This non-lie "lie" was only possible since Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald kept the investigation alive for a couple of years after learning that Colin Powell's lackey was the real perpetrator. But Dick Armitage was never charged with any crime for actually doing what the Special Prosecutor was charged with investigating, since Powell, though nominally a Republican, had already gone public with his disdain for the Bush Administration. The only thing that saved Sarah Palin from a flood of phony ethics charges in 2008 was that her political opponents thought that a single charge against firing her ex-brother-in-law who carried a badge and had a tendency toward violence was sufficient to damage her political prospects in Alaska. When she rose to the national stage, there wasn't enough time to gin up additional ethics violations. But since she still polls well as a prospective 2012 Republican presidential candidate, a small cottage industry of ethics violations charges has already been launched.
Do you remember the last time you saw a debate on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, or read about it in The New York Times, etc. that explored the reality of man-made global warming? Don't bother to look it up. There hasn't been. Despite the fact that sea levels aren't rising, that winters are getting colder, that virtually none of Al Gore's predictions have come true and an increasing number of mainstream scientists are challenging the methodology that produced these conclusions, the matter is "settled" in the eyes of the press. This is because there's a lot more riding on this belief than whether we all need an extra pair of summer shorts to add to our wardrobe. An entire economic and political agenda of the Left is built around the premise that man is producing "global climate change" (the new term of choice since the Earth clearly isn't warming like it was supposed to). Challenge the premise, or at the very least allow for reasonable people to disagree, and suddenly the momentum is gone for acting now! Or, acting at all.
Time Retracts Anti-Bush Racial Smear"The article 'Look Away, Dixieland' [Jan. 27] stated that President George W. Bush 'quietly reinstated' a tradition of having the White House deliver a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery -- a practice 'that his father had halted in 1990.' The story is wrong. First, the elder president Bush did not, as TIME reported, end the decades-old practice of the White House delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial; he changed the date on which the wreath is delivered from the day that some southern heritage groups commemorate Jefferson Davis's birthday to the federal Memorial Day holiday. Second, according to documents provided by the White House this week, the practice of delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial on Memorial Day continued under Bill Clinton as it does under George W. Bush."
Friday, Jan. 24, 2003
Emily Littela: "Oh...that's different.... Never mind."
Very good article.
Summing it up:
Don’t trust the driveby media. They have an agenda. And because they lie and/or shill so much, intelligent folks don’t believe them anymore.