Greg Mitchell is a long time mediot sufferer from Bush Derangement syndrome.
http://bamapachyderm.com/archives/2006/04/23/editor-publishers-crusader-greg-mitchell-again/
April 23, 2006
Editor & Publisher’s Crusader Greg Mitchell, AGAIN
Talk about Bush Derangement Syndrome: A Crisis Almost Without Equal (!)
No wonder so many are starting to look for a way to shorten or short-circuit the extended crisis period. Republicans demand a true shake-out at the White House. This week at Vanity Fair online, Carl Bernstein is calling for a Watergate-style congressional probe of possible high crimes and misdemeanors. Even Neil Young is weighing in with a soon-to-be-released song that urges, “Let’s impeach the president — for lying.”
Yes! The biggest world crisis ever is Bush! Neil Young and Carl Bernstein even said so! And all of us Republicans are in open revolt, calling for people’s heads! (WTF? Is he talking about “Republicans” like Lincoln Chafee and Chuck Hagel?)
And as editor of E&P, what does he suggest?
I don’t have a solution myself now, although all pleas for serious probes, journalistic or official, of the many alleged White House misdeeds should be heeded. But my point here is simply to start the discussion, and urge that the media, first, recognize that the crisis—or, if you want to say, impending crisis — exists, and begin to explore the ways to confront it.
I don’t even know why this surprises me–I guess it doesn’t, it just irritates the hell out of me. What an arrogant prick.
James Taranto gets it, spot on:
But it is a crisis for the press. For journalists of a certain age, Vietnam and Watergate were triumphs that they are eager to repeat. It doesn’t look as though that’s going to happen. Our advice to newsmen? Pray. “Lord, grant me the courage to change what I can, the serenity to accept what I cannot, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Amen. Now stop crusading and report the damn news.
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