In case you’re unaware of the controversy surrounding David Gregory and his Meet the Press interview where he illegally possessed a high-capacity ammunition magazine, waving it smugly to his viewers, here is the best summary of the controversy from Dan Mitchell of the CATO Institute.
As Dan writes “…I get very irritated when ordinary folks with no power or connections are persecuted while those with political connections get a free pass. And that’s exactly what’s happening.”
If you’ve ever harbored that innermost thought that the United States is turning into a Soviet-style state where the ruling elite are protected from the laws that the subjects have to follow, Dan brings those thoughts right out in the open:
After reading this outrageous story, my first reaction is to want the law repealed. My second reaction is to hope for a judicious and appropriate application of tar and feathers to certain D.C. officials.
But I’m also thinking that the high and mighty – including influential journalists – should be subject to the same bad laws as the rest of us.
Mitchell not only skewers the political elite, but goes on to outline a series of outrageous examples of bad laws ensnaring innocent citizens, and the ruling elite skating by where the rest of us would still be paying off the lawyers (hmmm, reminds me of certain Congressional hearings I was involved in several years ago).
I strongly recommend you read his entire article, entitled On Second Thought (and as a Second-Best Proposal), David Gregory Should Be Arrested and Prosecuted here.
While channel surfing between NPR, Norman Goldman, and KHOW, I happened to hear Michael Brown call David Gregory “a blowhard” and a member of “the elite media.”
If anyone’s a blowhard, it’[s Brown and his right-wing bovine excreta. His co-host David Sirota is smarter, better informed, and far more objective than Brownie.
While Brown is less of a conservative clown than his predecessor Dan Caplis, whose show was cancelled due to poor ratings after Caplis turned it into a shrill, boring, dishonest anti-Obama daily diatribe, he’s a joke nonetheless, and Norman Goldman on AM760 is head and shoulders above the tripe Brown peddles.
Well, then go back to NPR where you belong! MB
Sorry to shatter your illusions, or delusions, but I’m not liberal, conservative, libertarian, or any handle you can tag me with.
I haven’t voted since 2000, and support no candidates.
I would describe myself as fiscally responsible and socially tolerant. I believe in a strong U.S. military, was initially in favor of invading Iraq until it became clear that Cheney. Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Perle, Tenet, Rice et. al. cooked the books on WMD and Al Qaeda connections to Saddam Hussein.
I did agree with the action against the Taliban in Afghanistan and am now torn between total withdrawal, which would mean the Taliban would crush the corrupt, ineffectual Afghan government and military, and leaving U.S. forces — if even 5,000 — there to be killed by Afghan police, soldiers, Taliban insurgents, and IEDs. It’s a lose-lose situation; a lesson learned by nations who came before us.
While Mr. Brown is occasionally correct on certain issues, he is far from objective. Saying that “Obama wants us to become like Greece” is just pandering to the dittomonkeys.
And you take my comments out-of-context when you say that since I’m “a liberal” (If you consider JFK a liberal, then I guess I am as well) “any conservative view would be, ‘right-wing bovine excreta’ and ‘shrill, boring, dishonest anti-Obama daily diatribe.”
I don’t think all conservative ideas are bovine excreta, just a lot of them. And the second part was specifically directed at Dan Caplis, who had his show cancelled because he turned it into a non-stop Republican, anti-Obama propaganda machine.
I used to enjoy listening and talking to Dan until he went of the political cliff. started lying to buttress his fringe beliefs, and became an arrogant jerk on air.
He laughably claimed that the Dixiecrats became Republicans over abortion, not civil rights for blacks. He claimed that the 9/11 Commission Report found that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda conspired to produce nerve gas together. I read the report cover to cover; no such connection was stated in the report.
He made a big deal over how many times Obama voted “present” in the Illinois legislature, when he did so less than the average lawmaker, and the practice allowed legislators to keep a bill they thought had a chance if modified alive for future votes.
Caplis is someone who would tell a million lies to prevent one abortion.
You ask, “Couldn’t we be a bit more objective and accept that there are differing points of view?”
I accept differing points of view. I don’t accept lies and hypocrisy.
Can I take a guess that Mr. Fotopoulos is a liberal, so any conservative view would be, ” right-wing bovine excreta,” and “shrill, boring, dishonest anti-Obama daily diatribe.”
Couldn’t we be a bit more objective and accept that there are differing points of view?