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Impeachment Insufficient: Gannett Editor Calls for World-Wide Boycott of USA
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/23/2006 4:59:39 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

April 23, 2006

On the public-access TV show I host, 'Right Angle', the topic this past week was immigration. A Cornell campus radical expressed the view that not only should our borders be completely open, but that we shouldn't screen immigrants for criminal history or even . . . for being known Al-Qaeda members.

Now, if the radical making these sophomoric suggestions isn't quite a sophomore - he's in fact a grad student - perhaps some slack can be cut him as he continues to live, largely divorced from reality, within the liberal cocoon of the ivy-league tower.

The same defense cannot be offered to explain away the equally churlish remarks that Dave Rossie serves up week after week. Rossie is associate editor of the Gannett newspaper, the Binghamton [NY] Press & Sun Bulletin. In addition to his editing duties, Rossie writes a syndicated weekly column that, in its juvenile tone, reads like something worthy of an over-the-top 10th grader.

Take Rossie's column this week, "The White House needs to be disinfected".

To get a flavor for Rossie's 'wisdom', check out these nuggets:

[Tom DeLay] is busy contemplating the possibility that the next time he and his buddy Jack Abramoff get together it won't be at St. Andrews Royal and Ancient, but a prison exercise yard. The intensely moral Tom DeLay, and those two adulterous frauds, Henry Hyde and Dan Burton, who pushed the House to impeach Clinton, have been silent as the Sphinx on Bush's abuse of his office and the Constitution. The damning evidence continues to pile up, not just around the Liar in Chief but every member of this appallingly corrupt administration. They have long gone past being a national embarrassment to the point where they pose a threat to the rest of the world. You've got a vice president and a defense secretary who think they can bomb their way to a new world order channeling through a puppet who thinks Armageddon is just around the corner. Rossie believes that mere impeachment of the president is insufficient: "the issue has gone beyond the point where it can be resolved by a simple impeachment."

Rossie's proposed solution? To invite other leading countries of the world to boycott the US:

"What if the other great nations of the world — England, Germany, France, Italy, China, India, Japan , Canada, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Norway — most of which are governed by rational or at least semi-rational leaders, were to present us with an ultimatum: Stop throwing your weight around and putting us at risk of World War III and the nuclear holocaust that would accompany it, or we will show you sanctions such as you've never seen before. If you want to be an international pariah, do it on your own time and in your own backyard and leave the rest of the neighborhood alone."

So here we have an editor of a paper that is part of one of the most influential national newspaper chains calling for a boycott of the US that might well plunge us into a depression that would make the gasoline-price flap look like a day at the beach. And remember, this same fellow, when he puts his editor's cap back on after churning out this kind of stuff, decides every day what his newspapers readers will and won't see.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: boycott; daverossie; gannett; impeachment; mediabias; rossie; treason
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To: mariabush; mdmathis6

Oh I grew up in Binghamton reading about Ross's diatribes for years. When he won the HL Menken award for "opinionated bloviating", it stoked his ego into full
liberal warp mode. Sometimes his posts take a more naturopathic mode when speaks of his jaunts into the forests and fields around the southern tier area of NY state;heck he starts to wax practically poetic like some version of Robert Frost who likes to "stop by the banks" of the upper Chenango river "on a snowy evening"!

I'll bet Helen Thomas is his real mother!


21 posted on 04/23/2006 6:17:52 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Dave Rossie, is that the name that Molly Ivins plans to use after the sexual reassignment surgery? Or is it the other way around? Either way, there is WAY too much wild estrogen infesting this putrid screed.


22 posted on 04/23/2006 6:19:27 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: mkjessup
"Dave Rossie, is that the name that Molly Ivins plans to use after the sexual reassignment surgery?"

She's going to have another one? Doesn't she know you can't go back again?
23 posted on 04/23/2006 6:25:17 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

bump


24 posted on 04/23/2006 6:29:42 AM PDT by VOA
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Stop throwing your weight around and putting us at risk of World War III and the nuclear holocaust that would accompany it, or we will show you sanctions such as you've never seen before."

This nitwit seems oblivious to the fact that Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher and Pope JPII Already won WWIII. It was over when the Soviet Union (remember that?) fell.

"If you want to be an international pariah, do it on your own time and in your own backyard and leave the rest of the neighborhood alone."

Believe me, I live for the day....

25 posted on 04/23/2006 7:11:28 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
hey davy...

26 posted on 04/23/2006 7:18:45 AM PDT by Chode (1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT. American Hedonist ©®)
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To: muir_redwoods

Far more worried about Bush than about one of Iran's nukes.


27 posted on 04/23/2006 7:30:01 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: DoctorMichael
Here's his new photo:

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28 posted on 04/23/2006 9:02:08 AM PDT by b4its2late (Liberals are as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Binghamton used to be a decent place politically. It has gotten bad starting with the invasion of the left called SUNY-Binghamton.


29 posted on 04/23/2006 9:10:47 AM PDT by Binghamton_native
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To: theBuckwheat
"Far more worried about Bush than about one of Iran's nukes"

Who is?

30 posted on 04/23/2006 9:47:33 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Binghamton_native

Cuomo in the 1990 census tied Binghamton's congressional district(Matt Mchugh's old stomping grounds..you know the one everyone in congress in 1992-93 elected to help clean up the congressional post office scandal) with Maurice Hinchey's old district in the mid catskills(Liberty Monicello ect) which was heavily Democrat. Binghamton's district was republican...but McHugh was a decent enough fellow for a Democrat, hawkish on defense(IBM and other defence contracters were heavily involved in the region at the time). We wanted Mchugh to actually challenge Hinchey but McHugh was bought off by promises of jobs in the DC area...the Binghamton area has sucked ever since. Broome county is very heavily republican but there just isn't enough population to balance off the the Democrats in the Catskill regions. That and in 2000 some of Broome and Tioga counties were further chiseled away into more Liberal leaning discricts congressionally speaking...some of North east Broome was actually folded into Boelert's district as I recall(Pataki's doing). Hinchey dodged a bullet during that census redraw!


31 posted on 04/23/2006 2:01:18 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
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To: muir_redwoods

Dave Rossie is far more worried about Bush than about Iran's nukes.


32 posted on 04/23/2006 3:11:41 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It's true. The OBL uses the Rats talking points.


33 posted on 04/23/2006 8:00:05 PM PDT by AmericaUnite
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thanks for bringing this purveyor of propaganda to our attention.


34 posted on 04/23/2006 8:17:07 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping!

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35 posted on 04/23/2006 9:46:00 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

36 posted on 04/23/2006 10:07:24 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: PGalt

You're very welcome. I am truly shocked by the level of vitriol that Rossie spews week after week!


37 posted on 04/24/2006 3:29:28 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"""What if the other great nations of the world — England, Germany, France, Italy, China, India, Japan , Canada, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Norway — most of which are governed by rational or at least semi-rational leaders, were to present us with an ultimatum: Stop throwing your weight around and putting us at risk of World War III and the nuclear holocaust that would accompany it, or we will show you sanctions such as you've never seen before. If you want to be an international pariah, do it on your own time and in your own backyard and leave the rest of the neighborhood alone."""

Well since we are less dependant on them to buy our products than they are on us to buys theirs, theyd come out the losers.


you see the trade deficit can work to your advantage sometimes


38 posted on 04/24/2006 5:33:38 PM PDT by georgia2006
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