Posted on 05/13/2004 6:17:16 PM PDT by wagglebee
"I've stopped reading newspapers," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today to the troops in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. "You've got to keep your sanity somehow. I'm a survivor."
The wire services did relate that remark. What they didn't admit was the loud cheers rising from the GIs.
Fortunately, we saw (and heard) the footage on Fox News.
Think of Barnicle's predicament. He has to come groveling to a paper he's spent most of his professional career looking down his nose at. I always thought Barnicle's best stories were obvious fabrications. I was wrong, some were plagiarized. What does that say about the Globe's editorial oversight?
We know that the Herald has significantly higher readership on the days when Howie's column appears. Barnicle is in the other days. Wonder if he'll close the gap? I rather doubt it.
My question about Barnicle is: What does he know about whom? This guy must have the goods on some powerful people. His plagerism and creative writing at the Globe were not just a few times but was systematic and common. By all that it is holy he should never have been heard from again and simply faded away into shame and oblivion. And yet- almost immediately he is on the radio after Imus (whom he routinely plagerizes from still!) Then he was at the Daily News in NY! Uhh why? Now he is at the Herald? Who does this guy know? Does he know where some bodies are buried? He is a total waste of a writer and a finger in the wind opportunist. He was so very pro war a year ago- name calling against all those who oppossed the war with glee- now he is anti war and name calling all those who support the war. The man makes me want to vomit.
In fairness, CNN carried it as well, and NBC ran it on the Nightly News.
Mihcael
I agree- but I am just at a loss as to how this guy still has a media career at all?
The media just doesn't get it. They're blinded by their partisanship.
But to increase that loss wouldn't we have to buy MORE papers? :<0
Not to minimize one soldier's death, but I think the mess with the prison "abuse" scandal is no more than a black eye in the long run. I'd personally like to see Dan Rather and the rest of the CBS "news" team haunted in their dreams by the ghosts of every soldier who might not have died otherwise. But we will get through this WOT in the end and Al Quaeda will be just as dead.
Shalom.
Most of the country doesn't give any more thought to how things out to be than it takes to watch an episode of "Friends."
"March of the Morons" R us.
Shalom.
You were making a real good case for Beantown not being that bad until your last comment.
;)
Shalom.
From where I sit in PA, it appears they are trying to pretend to fight it in such a way as to let the SJC take the blame.
If they really didn't want "gay marriage" to become legal on Monday, all they would have to do is pass a referendum declaring that the SJC had overstepped its bounds by creating a law, and that their ruling would not be enforced. Demand a new ruling. Let the governer issue a statement to the same effect. If the court does not reconsider - impeach them all.
It is not an abuse of power for two branches of government to disagree with the third. It's a "check and balances" thing.
But even our President, whom I mostly like, has the chutzpah to stand against certain social agendas (CFR), and will use SCOTUS as his excuse. So it isn't surprising that MA politicians will do the same with the "gay agenda."
Shalom.
Not technically .. McHale is actually a Minnesotan, from Hibbing. Another native who is back in his home state :)
Your Patton coment is timely.
Can you see today's press in WWII? They would have demanded Patton's removal.
Two words:
Bam Bino.
;)
I hope you're right.
Shalom.
While I apologize for my tone in previous posts, you have to admit that being the first state to legalize gay marriage doesn't help your argument about how conservative Massachusetts...
Imposed on the people of Massachsetts by a a bunch of leftist tyrannts on the state supreme court.
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.