Understanding the Valerie Plame and Mary O'Neil McCarthy Cases

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 4/23/06 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

Out of the societal revolution of the 1960's, and in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, many changes have taken place in the fabric of American society. Since then, the following concepts have been under attack from within:

Religion in general and Christianity in particular; America's role as a beacon of hope in a cruel world; The authority of government, church and school leaders; The whole concept of duty, honor, country; The superiority of western and American culture over other cultures; The military's role in advancing and defending American interests;

In the place of these concepts, people, who I will call multiculturalists, have infiltrated our institutions with an agenda which includes the substitution of their belief system:

[the invisib1e hand]

Since there were no such prisons, it’s entirely possible that Director Goss suckered her into revealing herself as a dangerous mole.

I would laugh heartily if this were so; and this administration is certainly capable of such wisdom.

Tangentially, the President and his staff have, over and over again, consistently demonstrated an unusual wisdom for leadership that must be called genius. Over and over, in the most treacherous of circumstances, with the highest stakes in history, they have deftly despatched enemies within and without. It has been a marvel to see.

No less a marvel is all the ranting by alleged "conservatives" who seem all of a sudden to believe that the administration is really lame after all, that the genius must have been luck, when America encounters high oil prices, immigration debates, and allegedly low poll numbers. It is then that people seem to suddenly realize that they are smarter than the President after all, because, after all, they don't get what he's doing. All they know is that they are feeling the bug-bite of an iota of sacrifice, the kind that liberty demands, only in such a measure that the Founders must be spinning in their graves to see their protestations to these the merest hints of inconvenience.

Perhaps the most thankless job of all is leading the American people in this age.

[syriacus]

Perhaps the most thankless job of all is leading the American people in this age.

Agreed. Everybody's got a gripe, real or imagined, and thinks their gripe is the most important one.

Aren't there any grownups around?

[syriacus]

I am my own authority; whatever feels good to me is appropriate behavior

Juan Williams, on Fox News Sunday, equated Bush's legal "leak" of old pre-War intelligence with McCarthy's illegal "leak" of current news about the Gulags in Europe.

I'd hate to be in a car on the road with Juan.

With his faulty, fourth-grade-level reasoning, Williams might feel he could justify running a red light in order to post a "story" more quickly. After all, he knows that fire trucks are permitted to go through a red light to save a life. It looks like Juan could easily equate his goal with a fire fighter's goal.

What has happened to common sense?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

and we need to understand that almost all journalists in the mainstream media are constantly trying to advance this multiculturalist agenda.

Journalism is not the telling of objective reality; journalism is the attracting of attention for fun and profit, by topical nonfiction. Nobody proposes that all nonfiction books are objective, and the conceit that the extremely negative and superficial genre of nonfiction known as journalism is objective is entirely unsubstantiated.

[Logical me]

Who believes Juan Williams has any common sense? He is definitely a nut case. This jacka@@ almost cried when President Bush was reelected for the second term.

[PurpleMountains]

I don't know if you read my second post down from today's. I'd like it if you did. Also some examples of the victories you cite might make me less sick to my stomach about what's going on most of the time. Regards

[syriacus]

Who believes Juan Williams has any common sense? He is definitely a nut case.

You realized how deeply irrational Williams is, before I did. I thought he was biased, but I didn't realize he would admit that he thinks it's okay to break laws and break employment contracts.

[the invisib1e hand]

I read post #3, if that's the one you mean. Are you asking for examples? Start with the Bush Doctrine. But each and every alleged scandal has been an attack that has been thwarted. Just look at it: the media has the public convinced that everything is wrong and it's all Bush's fault, even hurricanes, for goodness sake! The media is an evil dictatorship that's had the Good Bush Administration in its sights from the beginning. Dealing with such an adversary is no simple matter. Most people simply couldn't take it. But this administration has kept its sense of humor, its integrity, its clarity of vision, its effectiveness where it has counted. The media and its backers are determined to make every domestic effort a failure, after failing to make every foreign effort a failure. They would destroy this country (and are) if doing so would impugn the President.

Now ask yourself why. Why is he their arch enemy? Because he has the audacity to stand up to evil; to promote liberty, while their most cherished possession is dictatorship and oppressive force, the absolute dominion they have had over public opinion for generations. And they are sensing in him such a threat, that they have pulled out the stops to discredit him, and the entire world sees right through it, and thinking men everywhere know he's right, and the media is a wounded dragon.

[PurpleMountains]

I couldn't agree more.