Comments on: Memo To Broder: It Is A Criminal Matter

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:39:02 +0000

By covertly spinning America’s involvement in the war, the Pentagon is in violation of the spirit, ~~if not~~ and, we believe, the letter, of the law.

Is that what you mean?

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:05:32 +0000

How would he feel about the law if the Republican policy were to kill any and all ‘journalists’, ‘opinion writers’, ‘editorialists’ or ‘news people’ in Washington D.C on the grounds that they’re just disgusting?

Would he write that policy positions aren’t a matter for the law?

After that, ask him how he’d feel if his kid were killed in a war based on a policy if it was later determined the facts didn’t call for war and the action was illegal?

Would he give a damn if it was his flesh killed based on illegal policy?

By: Marion in Savannah

Marion in Savannah — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:39:06 +0000

Can’t go OT at Book Salon. No triple crown winner again.

By: nahant

nahant — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:38:53 +0000

Digg this Post!

By: lee5

lee5 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:50:04 +0000

totally OT, just got back home and choosing this thread rather than going OT in the book salon,

but, I just gotta give props to Hillary for her speech today — read pieces of it on the ride home. And right on! Thank you, Hillary. Exactly what we needed.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:43:33 +0000

In the past, Broder wrote about institutions in a way that helped his readers understand the world they live in.

But now, Broder can’t help his readers make sense of why gas is so expensive, and why groceries are so costly, without better understanding how — and why — the US was drawn into the disaster of the War in Iraq.

Broder is an essayist; he doesn’t want to see evil. Consequently, he can’t explain the institutional duplicity and subversion that let to the Iraq War.

The reporters who can help us make sense of the world today are able to recognize evil. EW, Jane Hamsher, CHS, Sy Hersh, John Walcott (McClatchy), Laura Rozen (War & Piece) are able to see evil and describe its consequences, and then point toward the ramifications. And if you read much of the SSCI reports, it’s quite clear that the underlying storyline is a narrative about what happens when institutions are subverted by ideological purists conspiring to purposes they’re bent on keeping hidden in the dark. That obsession with secrecy, and refusal to openly state one’s activities, are always symptomatic of evil.

Broder’s not a crime writer.
So he can’t explain the world today.

By: ACitizen

ACitizen — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:35:31 +0000

Whoa!

Better not check that Senate roster; you will go batshit.

And…

I agree, but you know what they say about an old fool.

By: ACitizen

ACitizen — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:33:44 +0000

Here we got with the good old cult of personality. Dave you know full well that the likes of Broder, Brooks and Kristol to name but a few are mere tools of the hegenomny the folks that own just about everything, want the rest, and have filled the airwaves and newsprint of our benighted nation of barely competent readers with rank propaganda designed to keep ‘the people’ busy paying attention to what….

Really doesn’t matter.

What Broder says rarely means much but he sure manages to keep the so called Dems and progressive chasing their tales.

How about who is on the Board of Directors of the WaPo and who they are. I’m tired of reading about tired old fucks who are…

….only doing what their masters tell them to.

By: LS

LS — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:25:46 +0000

Dammit.

By: wangdangdoodle

wangdangdoodle — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:23:20 +0000

The power to enforce lies with the DOJ. I’m sure they’ll be right on it.

(Do I really need a snark tag for this?)