... and Never will. Let me emphasize at the very outset that I believe that Ms. Rice is fully qualified to serve our great Nation as Secretary of State in the Second Obama Term. Why you ask? To answer this inquiry, we'll look at the qualifications of just one of her predecessors, her unrelated name sake, Condi Rice. (I'm not close to Condi, but use her nic name, as I can't spell Condelleiza - see!) Now, back to my comparison - as President Bush's National Security Advisor in 2001, Condi Rice was absolutely clueless about Osama Bin Laden and Al Quida's terrorist capabilities and intentions for a deadly assault on our country. Indeed, after the World Trade Center attack, Condi proclaimed that no one in the Administration, herself included, had envisioned the possibility of commercial airliners being used as weapons. Really? I guess that Professor Rice never heard of the WWII Pacific Theatre of combat in which hundreds of young Jap pilots, sincerely believing that committing suicide by flying their planes into our warships guaranteed them an eternity in Heaven, did so to great effect, but just one time each. Yet, despite this egregious admission of historic ignorance, Professor Rice went on to serve as a heralded Sec. of State in the Bush Second Term, credited with assembling the Coalition of the Willing to topple the Butcher of Bagdad.
So, what's my beef with Susan Rice, you again ask? Its the absence of beef that I find blame worthy. Where was the intellectual integrity and rigorous preparation for her appearance on all five Sunday News shows in which she spoke to the entire nation about a spontaneous demonstration that was followed-up by "opportunist extremists" attacking the Benghazi consulate and CIA Annex a mile distant. Of course, that narrative was false. Were Ms. Rice to have asked anyone these questions, President Obama included: who observed this demonstration at the consulate, asked to see the photographs thereof, asked to read the cables from the State Department officials in Benghazi describing the demonstration, she would have been informed that none of these items ever existed, because no demonstrators ever existed in Benghazi. Therefore, it's obvious that Ms. Rice merely towed the party line, which is the one essential qualification to be a valuable and heralded Secretary of State in any Administration.
In previous blog Posts, I have postulated that any former President, except Jimmy Carter, would have fired, as soon as informed of the names of his subordinates, those Administration officials responsible for the DOJ criminal gun running to Mexico's drug cartels. Similarly, what President allows his subordinates to put out a false narrative of a non-existent demonstration, when our Intelligence Community spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year to know the actual facts on the ground? That level of incompetence would be a firing offense for the Director of the CIA on Day One had the President actually have been so misinformed. He wasn't.
Accordingly, all the machinations of the Republicans on Fox News whining about who in the White House changed the CIA talking points by deleting the references to terrorists and substituting "extremists" are as clueless as Condi Rice. Forget the semantics, there are three unforgivable scandals here, none of which involve wordsmithing: (1) allowing our Ambassador to go into a terrorist controlled area unprotected on the deadliest terrorist day of each year - 9/11; (2) not sending military forces to his rescue for over seventeen hours; and (3) to this very day, months later, having brought not one terrorist, nor even a single street demonstrator, to justice for these heinous murders. I find Susan Rice to be uniquely qualified to be a major figurine in such an accomplished Administration.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Why Bill Plante Still Matters
The current national political discourse reminds me, not of Watergate, but of the Ronald Reagan Era Iran-Contra debacle. When, in the early days of President Reagan's second term, Attorney General Ed Meese took the podium in the White House Press Room, he announced to the utter disbelief of the assembled media reps that, without the knowledge or approval of the President, an obscure retired Marine, Oliver North, working for the National Security Council in the White House basement, had himself acquired and sold large quantities of anti-aircraft missiles to America's sworn enemy, Iran. Then, again by himself, Colonel North took the millions in his illegal gun running profits and gave it to armed rebels fighting a communist government in Central America.
When the Attorney General concluded his defense of President Reagan by emphasizing the "rogue" nature of this National Security Council operation over three continents involving tens of millions worth of military assets, dozens of Air Force cargo planes and cakes with keys, the WH Press Room erupted in outrage. One of the most angry Patriots demanding accountability from the President was the CBS Chief White House Correspondent, Bill Plante, who literally shouted at Meese: "If the President didn't know, then WHY DIDN'T HE? In 1980's America, the nation's media, indeed the entire national political establishment, unequivocally rejected the Sargeant Schultze: "I know Nothing" stance of Meese.
Thirty years later, first in the "Fast and Furious" DOJ gun running criminal conspiracy, and now with the Benghazi/Petraesis/Allen scandals, where is Bill Plante and the national clammer that our President know what his subordinates are doing when hundreds, if not thousands, of Mexican innocents, a American Ambassador and three American heroes are dead.
When the CIA Director is sleeping around, the General Officer running the Afghan war is spending more time e-mailing a woman not his wife than he is in the trenches, keeping these matters from the President - because neither rose to the level of a national security risk, is OK. WHAT? - the top national security official makes himself liable to blackmail by Iran, China, Russia, even France, and the media accepts Holder's nonsense that we didn't tell Obama because Pretraesis' dalliance was merely a personal indiscretion? That is a national disgrace. Now, I know that Bill Plante still is not dead. Therefore, I expect he and every American Patriot to demand better. The traditional America of accountability following responsibility must be preserved in the 21st Century.
When the Attorney General concluded his defense of President Reagan by emphasizing the "rogue" nature of this National Security Council operation over three continents involving tens of millions worth of military assets, dozens of Air Force cargo planes and cakes with keys, the WH Press Room erupted in outrage. One of the most angry Patriots demanding accountability from the President was the CBS Chief White House Correspondent, Bill Plante, who literally shouted at Meese: "If the President didn't know, then WHY DIDN'T HE? In 1980's America, the nation's media, indeed the entire national political establishment, unequivocally rejected the Sargeant Schultze: "I know Nothing" stance of Meese.
Thirty years later, first in the "Fast and Furious" DOJ gun running criminal conspiracy, and now with the Benghazi/Petraesis/Allen scandals, where is Bill Plante and the national clammer that our President know what his subordinates are doing when hundreds, if not thousands, of Mexican innocents, a American Ambassador and three American heroes are dead.
When the CIA Director is sleeping around, the General Officer running the Afghan war is spending more time e-mailing a woman not his wife than he is in the trenches, keeping these matters from the President - because neither rose to the level of a national security risk, is OK. WHAT? - the top national security official makes himself liable to blackmail by Iran, China, Russia, even France, and the media accepts Holder's nonsense that we didn't tell Obama because Pretraesis' dalliance was merely a personal indiscretion? That is a national disgrace. Now, I know that Bill Plante still is not dead. Therefore, I expect he and every American Patriot to demand better. The traditional America of accountability following responsibility must be preserved in the 21st Century.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Why Winston Churchill still Matters
As Does Ms. Charlene Lamb
Wow, This was definitely the Week that Was - we got to see all levels of government at work and play. First, Superstorm Sandy pummels the northeast Big Time. Governor Chris Christy, the "Insultinator", who other than John Sununu, gave us the best rips on President Obama's lack of leadership skills, this week kissed up to the President so big time that not only did he get a brown nose, his freikin head now looks like a over-sized Milk Dud. Go figure!
In NYC, Mayor Nanny-State, who sees the role of government to be to limit the public's right to drink soda in one large cup (while allowing consumers to purchase simultaneously a six pack or more of almost as large soda containers, so not real reduction in calorie intake, just additional expense and difficulty in carrying multiple cups) decided to ignore the well being of millions of New Yorkers - in jeopardy of starving and freezing to death in the dark - so he could watch some tens of thousands of runners jog around the City while police and utility assets catered to their needs. Go figure!
So you ask, where does Ms. Charlene Lamb fit into this morass of politicians acting stupidly? Squarely at the Apex of arrogant refusal to be honest, candid and truthful, regrettably.
As an Elite Member, you are knowledgeable big time, as well as being fully aware of my disdain for this Chief Executive, who will not hold subordinates accountable for their egregious mis-judgments that literally cause the deaths of innocents. So, when Ms. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomat Security, told us all in sworn testimony before the Congress that the security assets in Benghazi were sufficient despite the murderous attack by dozens of terrorists armed with heavy weapons, including multiple mortars, she should have been shown the door immediately. Can you imagine the reactions of the American diplomats across the world upon hearing that a cerifiably insane woman is still in charge of guarding their very lives in the aftermath of Benghazi?
Hey, at least the Commander-in-Chief is consistent: he didn't fire anyone in his Administration after learning of the death of Brian Terry in the Fast & Furious scandal; hell, he didn't have the Army stop paying Major Hasan his full six figure salary after he murdered 14 fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood; so, it appears that Ms. Lamb's four bumps in the road of the Arab Spring, while not optimal, were not a big deal for her continued career of government service. Hell fire, I defy any Elite Member to name a single governmental official that this President has fired in his four years of executive government leadership.
Well, this Tuesday, November 6th, we the American people can prove Winston Churhill right by confirming that Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others, by voting to fire the current occuppant of 1600 Pennslyvania Avenue, and replace him with new tenants for the next four years. As citizens, we have a moral obligation to finally hold someone in the Obama Administration accountable for the last four years, and if not Charlene Lamb, then it should be Barry himself. Just vote.
Wow, This was definitely the Week that Was - we got to see all levels of government at work and play. First, Superstorm Sandy pummels the northeast Big Time. Governor Chris Christy, the "Insultinator", who other than John Sununu, gave us the best rips on President Obama's lack of leadership skills, this week kissed up to the President so big time that not only did he get a brown nose, his freikin head now looks like a over-sized Milk Dud. Go figure!
In NYC, Mayor Nanny-State, who sees the role of government to be to limit the public's right to drink soda in one large cup (while allowing consumers to purchase simultaneously a six pack or more of almost as large soda containers, so not real reduction in calorie intake, just additional expense and difficulty in carrying multiple cups) decided to ignore the well being of millions of New Yorkers - in jeopardy of starving and freezing to death in the dark - so he could watch some tens of thousands of runners jog around the City while police and utility assets catered to their needs. Go figure!
So you ask, where does Ms. Charlene Lamb fit into this morass of politicians acting stupidly? Squarely at the Apex of arrogant refusal to be honest, candid and truthful, regrettably.
As an Elite Member, you are knowledgeable big time, as well as being fully aware of my disdain for this Chief Executive, who will not hold subordinates accountable for their egregious mis-judgments that literally cause the deaths of innocents. So, when Ms. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomat Security, told us all in sworn testimony before the Congress that the security assets in Benghazi were sufficient despite the murderous attack by dozens of terrorists armed with heavy weapons, including multiple mortars, she should have been shown the door immediately. Can you imagine the reactions of the American diplomats across the world upon hearing that a cerifiably insane woman is still in charge of guarding their very lives in the aftermath of Benghazi?
Hey, at least the Commander-in-Chief is consistent: he didn't fire anyone in his Administration after learning of the death of Brian Terry in the Fast & Furious scandal; hell, he didn't have the Army stop paying Major Hasan his full six figure salary after he murdered 14 fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood; so, it appears that Ms. Lamb's four bumps in the road of the Arab Spring, while not optimal, were not a big deal for her continued career of government service. Hell fire, I defy any Elite Member to name a single governmental official that this President has fired in his four years of executive government leadership.
Well, this Tuesday, November 6th, we the American people can prove Winston Churhill right by confirming that Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others, by voting to fire the current occuppant of 1600 Pennslyvania Avenue, and replace him with new tenants for the next four years. As citizens, we have a moral obligation to finally hold someone in the Obama Administration accountable for the last four years, and if not Charlene Lamb, then it should be Barry himself. Just vote.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Redlining the Constitution
In the first Debate, both President Obama and Governor Romney stated that the first obligation of the United States President, as Commander-in-Chief, is the preservation of the nation's security from foreign attacks. Well, yes and an emphatic no - the Constitution does indeed appoint the nation's President as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, but reserves to the Congress the exclusive authority to unleash the "dogs of war". Only the Congress can authorize the President to don his CinC hat and direct the Army, Navy and Air Force in foreign combat that could lead to victory over the nation's enemy, or our destruction, should the President fail in the exercise of these most difficult executive responsibilities. Art. 1; Section 8.
This is not some arcane proposition relevant only to the "Dead Scholars Society", but absolutely timely to the conduct of the upcoming second debate on Foreign Policy, the election on November 6th, and the conduct of the 48th President in his first months in office, commencing January 2013. Everyone agrees that Iran - with its goal of the destruction of Israel, and the United States as well, in seeking to destroy the "Great Satan" so that the eternal reign of Allah world-wide can finally be established - constitutes an existential threat to our national security, should they give nuclear bombs to terrorists in suitcases, or even bigger packages. Accordingly, how the two candidates articulate their policy approaches to this national security challenge facing America should be topics one. two and three for this second debate.
To date, this political discussion over the last two years has been dominated by a disregard for the Constitutional limitations on Presidential power. Even our most staunch ally, Israel, with an identical commitment to the Rule of Law, demands that President Obama announce himself what bomb building stage Iran needs to achieve in order for the United States to unleash hell on Iran, and bomb that nation's territory. Senator Schummer of New York, who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, recently stated that upon his re-election, President Obama will be far more likely to attack Iran than would be a President Romney. Absolutely incredible - can anyone envision a sitting Senator announcing to our nation's deadly enemy that a future President will not fight to stop their bomb making, and doing so for no purpose other than partisan advantage in the upcoming election. Giving an enemy assurance of safety may not exactly constitute treason, as in giving "Aid and Comfort" to that enemy, but telling the Iranians that a President Romney will allow them to get a nuclear weapon should disqualify him for holding high office when he faces the electorate at his next election.
Senator Schummer's announcement that the decision to attack Iran's bomb making facilities is a act or power given solely to the nation's Chief Executive - without the concurrence of the people United States, acting through their elected Congress - is even more outrageous, indeed it is an impeachable offense for a Senator to abdicate this most crucial of Congressional powers. A nation of 300 million citizens can not Constitutionally be put on a path to possibly total destruction by going to War on the judgment of just one man, or some day, one woman. Exercising the Power of National Life or Death is the ultimate governmental responsibility, and for that very reason, our Constitution authorizes that decision is to be made only by all of us together through our elected representatives - obviously, when we all will literally have our skin the the game, we all get to decide whether to risk burning that skin to a cinder. Should America continue as a nation of laws, and not the rule of (a single) man, we must all demand that the Congress just do it job, whoever is elected our next President.
This is not some arcane proposition relevant only to the "Dead Scholars Society", but absolutely timely to the conduct of the upcoming second debate on Foreign Policy, the election on November 6th, and the conduct of the 48th President in his first months in office, commencing January 2013. Everyone agrees that Iran - with its goal of the destruction of Israel, and the United States as well, in seeking to destroy the "Great Satan" so that the eternal reign of Allah world-wide can finally be established - constitutes an existential threat to our national security, should they give nuclear bombs to terrorists in suitcases, or even bigger packages. Accordingly, how the two candidates articulate their policy approaches to this national security challenge facing America should be topics one. two and three for this second debate.
To date, this political discussion over the last two years has been dominated by a disregard for the Constitutional limitations on Presidential power. Even our most staunch ally, Israel, with an identical commitment to the Rule of Law, demands that President Obama announce himself what bomb building stage Iran needs to achieve in order for the United States to unleash hell on Iran, and bomb that nation's territory. Senator Schummer of New York, who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, recently stated that upon his re-election, President Obama will be far more likely to attack Iran than would be a President Romney. Absolutely incredible - can anyone envision a sitting Senator announcing to our nation's deadly enemy that a future President will not fight to stop their bomb making, and doing so for no purpose other than partisan advantage in the upcoming election. Giving an enemy assurance of safety may not exactly constitute treason, as in giving "Aid and Comfort" to that enemy, but telling the Iranians that a President Romney will allow them to get a nuclear weapon should disqualify him for holding high office when he faces the electorate at his next election.
Senator Schummer's announcement that the decision to attack Iran's bomb making facilities is a act or power given solely to the nation's Chief Executive - without the concurrence of the people United States, acting through their elected Congress - is even more outrageous, indeed it is an impeachable offense for a Senator to abdicate this most crucial of Congressional powers. A nation of 300 million citizens can not Constitutionally be put on a path to possibly total destruction by going to War on the judgment of just one man, or some day, one woman. Exercising the Power of National Life or Death is the ultimate governmental responsibility, and for that very reason, our Constitution authorizes that decision is to be made only by all of us together through our elected representatives - obviously, when we all will literally have our skin the the game, we all get to decide whether to risk burning that skin to a cinder. Should America continue as a nation of laws, and not the rule of (a single) man, we must all demand that the Congress just do it job, whoever is elected our next President.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Obama: Too Weak in the Middle East?
Come on now! Forget about it. Anybody getting to the top of the heap in Chicago, ain't no panty-waist, unwilling to step over a few bodies he himself made waste to in making his bones. Seeing this rather obvious fact, one must ponder why the national political debate since the massacre in Bengazzi has focused exclusively on the purported bow and apologize reconciliation policy of the Obama Administration toward the world's 2.5 billion muslims. Too easy a target, I guess.
Ok, having declared the entire Republican establishment wrong, it is thus my responsibility to illuminate the real reasons these adherents to the Religion of Love are attacking our embassies across three separate continents. Fortunately, after re-reading a goodly number of my previous blogs, I am up to the task at hand.
Its the Drones, stupid. This Administration has finally initiated a viable policy to close Gitmo - release the current detainees (or move them to civilian jail in NYC), while killing every found terrorist identified world-wide, so no jihadist is captured, thereby obviating the need for prisoner detention. This "Death from the Sky" extermination program has its merits, most assuredly in the total absence of risk to the American fighting forces. Nonetheless. these surgical strikes have come up a cropper in winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. Why? You ask? Let me enumerate the reasons: (1) a U.S. soldier on the battlefield fires a bullet into his target's body causing a single enemy combatant fatality; a drone wipes out the targeted enemy combatant, as well as everyone else in the rather extensive kill zone. Collateral damage sounds almost benign, it is not however well received by the family, friends and neighbors of the innocents blown to Vallhala, sans their entitlement to the 70 virgins because they did not die themselves blowing up infidels through setting off their own suicide bomb vests.
Muslim cultural resentment to our drone program capacity to kill without risk to ourselves cannot be overstated. It is so pervasive that I will skip going over reasons 2 through 10, and instead sum up with the observation that any Administration which has chosen to Kill at Will, to Slaughter dozens of guilty and innocent together. that did not anticipate mass violence against Americans where we are found within range of their rage - our embassies and consulates - took the stupid shot, as the stupid pill was just too slow. Surely, therefore, we desperately need a real national debate on the pros and cons of stealth killing from 20,000 feet - no weakness in understanding the consequences of following the Chicago Way.
Ok, having declared the entire Republican establishment wrong, it is thus my responsibility to illuminate the real reasons these adherents to the Religion of Love are attacking our embassies across three separate continents. Fortunately, after re-reading a goodly number of my previous blogs, I am up to the task at hand.
Its the Drones, stupid. This Administration has finally initiated a viable policy to close Gitmo - release the current detainees (or move them to civilian jail in NYC), while killing every found terrorist identified world-wide, so no jihadist is captured, thereby obviating the need for prisoner detention. This "Death from the Sky" extermination program has its merits, most assuredly in the total absence of risk to the American fighting forces. Nonetheless. these surgical strikes have come up a cropper in winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. Why? You ask? Let me enumerate the reasons: (1) a U.S. soldier on the battlefield fires a bullet into his target's body causing a single enemy combatant fatality; a drone wipes out the targeted enemy combatant, as well as everyone else in the rather extensive kill zone. Collateral damage sounds almost benign, it is not however well received by the family, friends and neighbors of the innocents blown to Vallhala, sans their entitlement to the 70 virgins because they did not die themselves blowing up infidels through setting off their own suicide bomb vests.
Muslim cultural resentment to our drone program capacity to kill without risk to ourselves cannot be overstated. It is so pervasive that I will skip going over reasons 2 through 10, and instead sum up with the observation that any Administration which has chosen to Kill at Will, to Slaughter dozens of guilty and innocent together. that did not anticipate mass violence against Americans where we are found within range of their rage - our embassies and consulates - took the stupid shot, as the stupid pill was just too slow. Surely, therefore, we desperately need a real national debate on the pros and cons of stealth killing from 20,000 feet - no weakness in understanding the consequences of following the Chicago Way.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Why Major Hasan still Matters
Recently, President Obama told a TV interviewer that his job as President was more than just getting the national policy choices right. His overarching duty, he explained, is to tell the American people a story, to be inspirational, so that as a united country, going through difficult economic times, we will ban together, be optimistic and confident that indeed tomoorow will be better than today. And for once, the President and I are in complete agreement. Americans deeply want and need to see our President knowledgeable and concerned about important issues that affect our daily lives, in both specific objective ways - high gas prices - and in more symbolic ways - three plus years and no trial or even any accountabily for the Fort Hood jihadist murderer, and the President remains totally uninvolved in this open wound, bleeding away the spirit of patriotic Americans wondering why the Major continues to this day to be paid his full Army salary while flaunting daily his continuing violent, murderous hatred of us all.
Here is a President, so powerful, so concerned about injustice and unfairness, that with the simple stroke of a pen, he nullifies a one hundred year old federal statute, thereby granting amnesty to more than one million illegal aliens who are in-country and below the age of 30 years old. Such a sweeping and bold executive action reflects a real and strong commitment by this President to make the nation more just and compassionate.
Is it, therefore, too much to ask this same President to direct his Army subordinates to dishonorably discharge Major Hasan, and have his murder trial begin in his (and our) lifetime?
That not so bold or sweeping exective action would demonstrate the President's commitment to our military families, and the entire nation as he attacked us all in 2009, who suffer each and every day thinking about this disgraceful miscarriage of justice, with Major Hasan remaining on acitve duty status, while his injured victims in some cases have been declared unfit for duty in our armed forces and mustered out to fend for themselves at the local VA office.
I cannot count on one hand, even my left one, how many speeches the President and the First Lady have given before military family audiences, thanking these patriots for their service to our nation, and how in recognition of their many and great sacrifices for our safety and freedom, the President will never abandon or stop working for the causes of military family welfare. Well, guess what Mr. President, I suggest you stop these self aggrandising speeches for as long as it takes for you to sign an Executive Order giving Major Hasan the boot from his six figure annual taxpayer salary.
Here is a President, so powerful, so concerned about injustice and unfairness, that with the simple stroke of a pen, he nullifies a one hundred year old federal statute, thereby granting amnesty to more than one million illegal aliens who are in-country and below the age of 30 years old. Such a sweeping and bold executive action reflects a real and strong commitment by this President to make the nation more just and compassionate.
Is it, therefore, too much to ask this same President to direct his Army subordinates to dishonorably discharge Major Hasan, and have his murder trial begin in his (and our) lifetime?
That not so bold or sweeping exective action would demonstrate the President's commitment to our military families, and the entire nation as he attacked us all in 2009, who suffer each and every day thinking about this disgraceful miscarriage of justice, with Major Hasan remaining on acitve duty status, while his injured victims in some cases have been declared unfit for duty in our armed forces and mustered out to fend for themselves at the local VA office.
I cannot count on one hand, even my left one, how many speeches the President and the First Lady have given before military family audiences, thanking these patriots for their service to our nation, and how in recognition of their many and great sacrifices for our safety and freedom, the President will never abandon or stop working for the causes of military family welfare. Well, guess what Mr. President, I suggest you stop these self aggrandising speeches for as long as it takes for you to sign an Executive Order giving Major Hasan the boot from his six figure annual taxpayer salary.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Of Guns, Bullets and Bloodshed
It is, in my opinion, impossible to make sense out of the totally senseless madness of James Holmes. The crazies among us will always find a means to strike terror in the hearts of innocents, as their insane way to exorcise the demons making them so miserable that they seek to make every other person on the planet suffer pain, fear and grief. That said, can a Constitutional Republic, consistent with its values of individual freedom, including a personal right to bear arms, adopt sensible policies that might deter, or at least diminish the capacity of, lunatics from being able in less than two minutes to inflict hundreds of casualties? Is that national conversation worth having? I say yes, but fear that it will not be possible in a Presidential election year. Some sad irony there, indeed.
A few random reaction to how this national conversation commenced - ABC's Brian Ross was roundly criticized for failing to confirm the identity of Mr. Holmes before reporting that an individual of that same name was listed as a Colorado Tea Party member. So much so, that ABC News issued a formal apology for its unprofessional failure to gets its facts straight before going public. The far more egregious professional journalistic failure here was the belief that had Mr. Holmes been a Tea Partier, that voluntary association would in anyway have been relevant to his decision to engage in mass murder.
By way of analogy, ABC could have accurately told us that Holmes is a California born, unmarried male, college graduate and Ph.D candidate in neuroscience - thereby making all unmarried, studious adult men from California appropriate candidates to be interviewed by the FBI to determine whether they are likewise incipient homicidal maniacs. The worst kind of guilt by association by Brian Ross, who should be ashamed, but no one should call for his firing by ABC News, as these reminders of the depths to which the MSM will go to libel conservative Americans is useful knowledge, even if no one watches these channels anymore for that same reason.
So, no more sadness for one Post, life does go on, and tomorrow will be time enough to re-gather in this market place of ideas. Today, I'm with President Obama, Mitt Romney and all fair minded Americans -give your loved ones, as I will, a tighter hug.
A few random reaction to how this national conversation commenced - ABC's Brian Ross was roundly criticized for failing to confirm the identity of Mr. Holmes before reporting that an individual of that same name was listed as a Colorado Tea Party member. So much so, that ABC News issued a formal apology for its unprofessional failure to gets its facts straight before going public. The far more egregious professional journalistic failure here was the belief that had Mr. Holmes been a Tea Partier, that voluntary association would in anyway have been relevant to his decision to engage in mass murder.
By way of analogy, ABC could have accurately told us that Holmes is a California born, unmarried male, college graduate and Ph.D candidate in neuroscience - thereby making all unmarried, studious adult men from California appropriate candidates to be interviewed by the FBI to determine whether they are likewise incipient homicidal maniacs. The worst kind of guilt by association by Brian Ross, who should be ashamed, but no one should call for his firing by ABC News, as these reminders of the depths to which the MSM will go to libel conservative Americans is useful knowledge, even if no one watches these channels anymore for that same reason.
So, no more sadness for one Post, life does go on, and tomorrow will be time enough to re-gather in this market place of ideas. Today, I'm with President Obama, Mitt Romney and all fair minded Americans -give your loved ones, as I will, a tighter hug.
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