The sooner CNN is bankrupt, the better.
I have noted that, time and again, on the part of media pundits and rank and file voters. For example, Rush and Russert and O'Reilly and Hannity et al. were always willing to immediately assume the worst of Clinton, without even bothering to check the facts to see if their wild and treasonous assertations were true.
I can't even name the number of "scandals" that the press and conservatives in general were able to stain Clinton with. In every case but one, all those charges turned out to be lies, but that didn't stop his enemies form embracing and endlessly repeating those lies on television, on the radio, in newspapers and magazines, and in every other form of media.
In every case, over and over again, regardless of the ridiculousness of the accusations, his enemies invariably assumed the worst about Clinton. They even suggested, when he was sending cruise missles after Bin Laden, that he was "wagging the dog."
So I know what you mean when you complain about pundits and people treating the president without respect or honor. Unfortunately, that's the way it is nowadays. Conservatives changed the rules about how Americans talk about their president in order to lambaste Clinton mercilessly. Now Bush has to live under the new rules. No, he won't like these new rules -- but then neither did Clinton, and he put up with being called every name in the book for over eight years.
Criticism has always come with the job. And nowadays, criticism comes with calumnies and insults, because that's the way conservatives wanted it.
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... the Times's new publisher, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. Pinch was a sixties anti-war activist who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot."
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Stanley Kurtz (NRO on line, June 5, 2001)