Archive for April 11, 2009
Happy Easter Everyone
If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!
- Clarence W. Hall
The Media Proves Once Again Just How Liberal it Isn’t
You’ve probably heard about Tea Party Day. If you haven’t, you undoubtedly will hear about it sometime between now and April 15. If you watch “fair and balanced” Fox, that’s just about all you’ve been hearing about for days. For all intents and purposes they’re organizing it.
But have you heard about today’s protests, organized by A New Way Forward? I didn’t think so.
President Obama: Normalize Relations With Cuba
I agree with David Rothkopf:
If I may make a couple of brief comments on this- and I am unconstrained by affiliation with the United States government right now – so perhaps they will be in a slightly different direction.
The editorial in today’s Washington Post was absurd.
The position of the Florida contingent on this is Paleolithic.
The policy is indefensible on any grounds,
The reality is that Cuba may be special, but you have to ask yourself why it’s therefore easier to travel to or do business with the Stalinist, nuclear weapon-toting North Koreans, or whether it’s more comfortable for us to be totally economically integrated with the Saudi royal family and their depredations, or if we are concerned about human rights, why are we so integrated with and why are we the sole supporter of a government in Afghanistan that has just made rape in marriage legal and denies women the right to go outside without the approval of their husbands?
So this notion that some how democracy alone is the only criteria that we should use in defining the nature of relationship doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny whatsoever, and the reality is that only one country that has successfully been isolated by this fifty year embargo, and that is the United States of America.
Our [US-Cuba] policy dates back to the Edsel.
It is the Edsel of American foreign policy.
Wingers Really, Really, Really Should Learn How to Use The Google
This is basic stuff folks. Hilarious and pitiful at the same time. I mean, where have these people been? Deep in the woods hating, I guess.
Think
“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.”
- Anne Lamott
What Would Katharine Graham Think?
Katharine Graham is one of my heroes. She was at the helm of the Washington Post during the crisis that spanned the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. She was Bob Woodward’s and Carl Bernstein’s boss. Despite being scared to death (read her wonderful memoir, Personal History), she essentially told the Nixon administration to go to shove it when they pressured her not to publish the results of Woodward and Bernstein’s investigation into the Watergate burglary. Talk about speaking truth to power and being the consummate journalist – that was Katharine Graham.
So I see it as a real tragedy that, thirty years on, the once mighty, proud and esteemed Post has apparently lost its way and its journalistic dignity: Post Reporter Says it’s Not His Job to Check the Accuracy of People He’s Quoting.
Sad, not only for the Post, but for the nation as a whole.
