Treason: the NYT diversionary tactic
the nyt responds in typical, measured fashion...
it is certainly NOT the nyt that's the story here but, thanks to karl rove, it is... what the story should REALLY be about is the "extraordinarily powerful executive branch, exempt from the normal checks and balances..."
ya gotta hand it to rove... now we're going to consume mega-gallons of printers' ink and terabytes of bandwidth to talk about what shouldn't be an issue in the first place - freedom of the press - and ignore the fact that we have a presidential administration using the constitution of the united states as toilet paper... Submit To Propeller
Tweet
From our side of the news-opinion wall, the Swift story looks like part of an alarming pattern. Ever since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has taken the necessity of heightened vigilance against terrorism and turned it into a rationale for an extraordinarily powerful executive branch, exempt from the normal checks and balances of our system of government. It has created powerful new tools of surveillance and refused, almost as a matter of principle, to use normal procedures that would acknowledge that either Congress or the courts have an oversight role.
it is certainly NOT the nyt that's the story here but, thanks to karl rove, it is... what the story should REALLY be about is the "extraordinarily powerful executive branch, exempt from the normal checks and balances..."
ya gotta hand it to rove... now we're going to consume mega-gallons of printers' ink and terabytes of bandwidth to talk about what shouldn't be an issue in the first place - freedom of the press - and ignore the fact that we have a presidential administration using the constitution of the united states as toilet paper... Submit To Propeller
Tweet
posted by profmarcus at
6/28/2006
