Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Sowell: Lawsuits and Impeachment
Creators Syndicate ^ | July 14, 2014 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 07/14/2014 10:37:38 AM PDT by jazusamo

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-46 last
To: Political Junkie Too
I think that the problem with impeachment today is that we have devolved from co-equal branches of government to unequal parties. It's no longer about the Congress against the President, or the House against the Senate; it's about Democrats vs. Republicans in every branch of government, with Democrats and the MSM having their thumbs on the scale of justice.
Fundamentally, the problem is that the MSM wire service journalism, augmented by broadcasting has become dominant as a de facto monopolistic entity. Wire service journalism (primarily the AP, but if not them, someone else would do the same thing) aspired to objectivity, which - in the context of the fractious partisan nature of pre-AP reporting - seemed like an unimpeachable idea. But “the devil is in the details” - and people never fully reckoned with the possibility and implications of journalists coming actually to believe in their own objectivity.

The trouble with a journalism which believes in its own objectivity is the same as the trouble with a faction which believes in its own wisdom. Once you know you are objective (or wise), you automatically stop doing the work of actually trying to be objective (or wise). The classical problem of the Sophists (literally, “wise guys”) of ancient Greece brought forth the the classical responders, the “Philosophers” (“lovers of wisdom), who eschewed personal attacks and demanded that the subject of debate be restricted to facts and logic. The “objective” journalists of today must similarly be confronted with the fact that when they fail to consider the possibility that where they stand is influenced by where they sit, they automatically degrade into the rankest, most self-interested, partisanship.

The result is that journalists promote criticism over performance - and it is only natural that a political party would align itself unreservedly with the PR power which is journalism.
.

41 posted on 07/14/2014 2:41:57 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: ifinnegan

How will it shape up? How would I know?

What is clear is that most of us around here resonate with the words “give me liberty or give me death”.

Many of us are ready to die if we must in our refusal to submit to tyrany. Unfortunately it appears that the leftists are equally determined to subject us to their utopian vision.

So we may get a firsthand answer to the age old question of what will happen if an unmovable object encounters an irresistable force.

If history is a guide (and it usually is), a lot of suffering will follow.

I don’t know how or when it will escalate into war. It is even feasible that something could result in the citizens of the nation falling on their knees and crying out to God. If people truly repent and seek God, He can do all things. But so far it appears most will not do this, and God will do what He has done through history, and preserve a remnant who will follow His laws.

I believe the tyrants will pay for their crimes and be defeated, but not without a long and difficult struggle.

We have two things going for us: right is on our side, and incompetence is on theirs. When I see how ineffective and inefficient government employees are, it makes think that war will largely favor the conservatuve minority. If the TSA represents Obama’s idea of a standing domestic army he can sic on conservatives, I think he will be disappointed with the outcome.


42 posted on 07/14/2014 3:10:48 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: Starboard

“The GOP’s weakness is only surpassed by its own stupidity.”

When you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.


43 posted on 07/14/2014 5:39:38 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

“At least a lawsuit has to get media attention”

They’ll lie, as they always do, and we might end up the worse for the attention. Maybe better just to let that wad of offal keep self-destructing.


44 posted on 07/14/2014 6:42:00 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Norm Lenhart

“And once again the right wing talking heads line up to take the one position ensuring Obama remains protected. Just like magic.”

Back when it was clear that the Klintstones had killed Vince Foster, or had him killed, William F. Buckley wrote in the National Review that it would be better for the Republic to let him get away with it than to expose the president as a murderer.

Didn’t agree then. Don’t now.

However, Chairman Maobama does seem to be self destructing all by himself, so maybe it would be better just to watch the show for a while.


45 posted on 07/14/2014 6:46:38 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

How about impeaching after the R’s have the senate? then it can go somewhere.


46 posted on 07/15/2014 7:16:25 AM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-46 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson