Subject: Moral Bankruptcy At ABC
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:53:45 -0400
From: I.M. Trenchant
To: niteline@abc.com
The Nightline piece on W. Mark Felt set a new baseline for baseness. Koppel is given a pulpit from which to express his views, which are usually sanctimonious if nothing else. His 'essay' on W. Mark Felt should give the ABC News Department serious reservations about sustaining this pathetic moral bankrupt in such a potentially influential position.
Koppel's view of Mark Felt implies that he had no responsibility to behave according to his sworn federal oaths. Nixon paid the price for his sins, but Felt has not, and to imply, as Koppel did, that Felt should not, is an affront to the justice system. Felt had an abundance of avenues by which he could have expressed himself publicly -- none of which included the perfidious route he chose.
Because Koppel does not seem to have any serious understanding of law, morality or ethics, he should be obliged to read, and submit to rote-memory, the Ben Stein piece in the American Spectator, which I copy below because I doubt that Koppel has the wit to be able to find his way to the article unaided. Here it is:
[PASTED THE BEN STEIN ARTICLE]
Nightline ought to, in fairness to those who may have bought into Koppel's absurd defence of W. Mark Felt, invite Ben Stein to appear on Nightline, or better still, combine the best of Letterman and a topical program on daily events, by inviting Stein to replace Koppel as host of Nightline.
Such a blatant effort to influence public opinion -- in order to produce a poll that O'Connor hopes will show that the U.S. public approves of Felt's activities (God help the U.S.A.) -- is the worst form of programming abuse since Hitler gave Goebbels his free rein in Nazi Germany.
Good for you.
What color was the dead Weasel on Koppel's head.
What a worthless leftwing POS, Koppel is. I thought that ABC was dropping his program since no one watched it.