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How can someone who says such damning things call himself a “Democrat” when the leaders of his damned party have been the cause of his angst for more decades than he’s been alive?
He’s not nearly as intelligent as he seems.
At the root of the MSM’s demise is their utter disdain for the notion of truth. For them, whatever they can get away with telling, regardless of whether or not it occurred, is “truth”. Thus lying to cover for their secular Messiah is not a problem.
Great post. I have long ago stopped believing in the illusion of journalistic impartiality. It’s a load of crap.
An excellent read (in case you hadn’t seen it).
You can’t expect journalists to be honerable..
They aren’t.
BTTT!
Editor's note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting the current state of journalism. An open letter to the local daily paper -- almost every local daily paper in America: ...This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration. It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans... One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them. Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans... Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending? I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate." Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed... These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.
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Evidently NOTHING!!!
In my Fantasy Number 2998, President McCain sets up a new Washington Press Corps free of MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, NY Times etc.
McCain would hold weekly press conferences on the Internet with live blogging Drudge, InstaPundit, Michele Malkin, and the rest of the Pajamas Media. Oh, throw in Fox.
Great column, of course, we all knew this already.
I love Card’s essays. There are some honorable Democrats still around, and he is one of the few left. Why he’s not a Republican is beyond me.
This ought to be sent to every journalist in America.
pflr
marked. Wow.
Those EZ loans fed the economy and fed the boom. People were refinancing every year and taking cash out along the way.
That money bought cars, clothes, and a more comfortable lifestyle.
THAT’S why nobody did anything about it. There was no incentive.
Well, now that the prices are coming back down to where people can qualify the old fashioned way 33/38 ratios...or 35/40 FHA.
Business is really booming in bank-owned properties right now. People are buying and lenders are lending. Don’t believe all this crap out there.
Wow. He is a very good writer. Clear and succinct. It will of course go for naught but it is nice to know that Diogones can find ONE honest democrat in the MSM.