I followed the arguments on the Bush National Guard memos very closely on Free Republic. I feel the memos were phoney and were too quickly accepted by those in the MSN who wanted to believe them. None-the-less I continue to believe Bush was a draft dodger who remained in the National Guard only as long as it was necessary and fun.
On a larger scale our differences on this point illustrate perfectly the reality of political opinions. I happen to agree with you that many on the liberal Left act in ways absolutely antithetical to American interests and that they do so because they believe American policy, and perhaps even American culture, to be the root of all evil. But very, very few are treasonous. They are not putting the interests of foreigners over our own. Rather, they are, from my point of view, simply deluded - and are sincerely trying to make America a better place. Much as Chamberlain and Daladier were not treasonous in the run-up to WWII.
Nor do I believe that everything Bush has done - or that conservatives advocate - in the foreign policy arena is reasonable, sensible, practical, doable, productive.
Criticism is essential and must be allowed. Messy and frustrating as it is, it remains the best way, the right way.
As for liberal TV, you're way off base on this one too. Talk radio is just as available, just as omnipresent, and has just as large an audience.
Criticism is not the problem. Outright sabotage and lying are the problems.
The NG memos were so egregiously ludicrous that they would have fooled no real journalists. They were not just forgeries or mediocre forgeries but ludicrously obvious forgeries. This was a deliberate attempt to interfere in the electoral process using fraud.
What the NYtimes has done is not the equivalent of Chamberlain but rather Lord Haw Haw.
Talk radio does not have the same audience (Rush has 20 million listeners a week not per night) and is not intended to be news as CBS etc pretends to be. If Dan Rather had a talk show I would still believe him to be a fool but would have no criticisms such as are occasioned by the pretense he is a journalist.