Friday, September 30, 2005
objectivity and role reversal?
so that ny times reporter judith miller is getting out of prison in exchange for giving up her source that resulted in getting cia agent valerie plame killed. i am all for freedom of the press and not revealing your source, but in the us today with the patriot act, they would have let her rot in jail. before i go any further on this, it occurred to me that peoples reactions today were exactly opposite of thier character.
people who would call themselves liberal's are happy she is giving up her source because, in not so many words, her testimony will all but be the end of karl rove, whom democrats see as the anti-christ. if rove and bush were not involved, i would bet anything that they would be screaming for the protection of the source as a freedom of the press and tout miller as hero. instead their licking their chops at the prospect of turd blossom going down.
on the flip side, conservatives are yapping that this IS a violation of freedom of the press. the less educated conservatives (hard to imagine) are claiming that plame wasn't even an agent. i would expect conservatives to be upset with this violation of the patriot act and see this is a breech in national security that resulted in a death of a cia agent. give up that source or else, they'd yell.
weird how politics in america have become so jaded that the people who call themselves "political" simply follow a person, rather than an ideology. was i sleeping or something? when did this happen? when did we become members of either the bush or liberal fan clubs?
people who would call themselves liberal's are happy she is giving up her source because, in not so many words, her testimony will all but be the end of karl rove, whom democrats see as the anti-christ. if rove and bush were not involved, i would bet anything that they would be screaming for the protection of the source as a freedom of the press and tout miller as hero. instead their licking their chops at the prospect of turd blossom going down.
on the flip side, conservatives are yapping that this IS a violation of freedom of the press. the less educated conservatives (hard to imagine) are claiming that plame wasn't even an agent. i would expect conservatives to be upset with this violation of the patriot act and see this is a breech in national security that resulted in a death of a cia agent. give up that source or else, they'd yell.
weird how politics in america have become so jaded that the people who call themselves "political" simply follow a person, rather than an ideology. was i sleeping or something? when did this happen? when did we become members of either the bush or liberal fan clubs?
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I think what makes politics so entertain isn't the politicans, but rather the public at large. Most folk think they are intelligent and independant of thought, but they are more than willing to let the politicians and media lead them around by the nose. This isn't a single county problem either. It's that way in Canada and over in the UK as well (Probably more countries, but I haven't been to them).
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