Posted on 06/03/2005 3:49:11 AM PDT by billorites
Project: Revive Newsweak rolls forward
Oh, Ok. To all newspeople, so let's meet in the middle on this one. You guys use anonymous sources all you want to (the way you always have ), and if the information produced from the sources is valid, we'll live with it. However, if you're wrong by quoting all these bogus liars, axe grinders and back stabbing anonymous sources, we'll hold you accountable for it. Fair is fair.
Infinite capacity for self-decption ping.
Right. Down with Nixon, and up with the worst administration in American history: Jimmy Carter.
Rivive Newsweak is right. After reading through all of the crap of this article, you arrive at the main point. This is nothing more than an apologist piece defending anonymous sources. Talk about terrible journalism. This article stunk. Do they teach them to write this way at Columbia's School of Journalism?
Linda Tripp is my heroine!
Conservatives are highlighting his disappointment in 1972 at being passed over when Nixon chose an FBI director to replace the legendary J. Edgar Hoover....
Conservatives? Steaming piles of pungent BS !
It's the MSM who have been highlighting this.
They obviously don't want anything to detract from the warm and self bestowed aura of sainthood that envelops the WP and Woodward & Bernstein.
As usual, these guys still insist that THEY are the story.
Ok,fair enough,go to the press and expose all.
Skulking around in parking garages,selectively dribbling out information,putting the country through the torture of Watergate for 2 years at the time we were trying to figure an end to the Vietnam war is not the way to expose wrongdoing.
Woodstein had the desire to string this along for political as well as professional reasons and along with Felt they clearly wanted to impose the maximum pain to all in their sights.
Oh well, I'm sure it's just an error on my part.
He's defending anonymous sources so his zombie reporters can continue spinning fairy tales. Unless a source is under threat of death, no anonymous source should be used. Most anonymous source stories are nothing more than political hacks with an attack agenda. Everyone knows that.
Hoyt is a typical left wing weasel puking in a bowl and trying to pass it off as delicious chicken soup.
"Even before the Watergate burglary, the White House was running a vast, secret political spying operation outside the law."
The writer puts forth an unsupported assertion to bolster his weak argument. Felt is a stool pigeon, a leaker, who committed criminal acts while drawing his pay from the Federal government, and later his pension. Like other democrats with mental disorders he wants it both ways. Indeed there is a vast left wing conspiracy to destroy our country, nothing more. ...more specious, warped reasoning from the left.
Today, as we saw with Newsleak, the chain of events is: a) Get information from anonymous source. b) Publish information. c) CYA!!!
Mark
Conveniently omitted is the fact that W. Mark Felt was a sworn law enforcement official. As such Mr. Felt had an obligation to bring any information he had about any criminal activities he may have had knowledge about to the proper authorities. In the very least, should Felt have had the suspicion that those facts would be ignored, [by giving them to the proper authorities] he had both the ethical and moral obligation to resign his sworn office prior to "selling" this information to reporters.
To make Felt out to be a man of moral and ethical judgement is to make a mockery of morality and ethical behavior.
But then I know of no one who accuses the Left of being either moral, or ethical.
deep throat show that on ereally PO'ed FBI Agent can do stuff as a willing accomplice for the ambitious press-that
would land anyone right of center behind bars. chuck Colson went to prison for having a single FBI file,yet Linda Lovelace threw how many into the river?I have Zero respect for the source-or for those who profitted by his destructive acts.I greater respect for the porn queen he
represented himself as.when dealing with politicians it is
all Porn and corruption I suppose.For they have removed the
political house form its foundaitons and erected a wall to
divide the house form God--and the nation .
They lie at their own peril......and they know it too!
Dear Mark Felt
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. . . . I know the American People are much attached to their Government;--I know they would suffer much for its sake;--I know they would endure evils long and patiently, before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come.
Here then, is one point at which danger may be expected.
The question recurs, "how shall we fortify against it?" The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;--let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap--let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;--let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.
Abraham Lincoln
As I read that, I was trying to think of who the author would have been. I wasn't close. ;)
That is most relevant.
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