Posted on 08/19/2003 6:36:54 PM PDT by Temple Owl
Second Thoughts
By: William W. Lawrence 08/19/2003
We are still keeping an open mind about Amanda Bennett, the Inquirer's new editor.
We are not about to place big money on it, but the odds that she will guide the newspaper into a more fair and balanced path appear to be going south.
She has hired Walter Cronkite to write left-wing commentary on the editorial page. Cronkite, who says he is registered as an "Independent," claims to be a fiscal conservative and a social liberal.
Yeah, right.
If you want all those liberal programs administered by highly paid political hacks, American taxpayers will have to shell out for them.
I would rather see Cronkite describe himself as a social conservative but a fiscal liberal.
Cronkite said he "looked up the definition of 'liberal' in a Random House dictionary. It gave the synonyms for 'liberal' as 'progressive,' 'broad-minded,' 'unprejudiced,' 'beneficent.' The antonyms it offered: 'reactionary' and 'intolerant.' "I've always suspected those fine folks at Random House of being liberals. You just can't trust anybody these days."
I would trust Jason Blair over Walter Cronkite these days.
Uncle Walter is just another left-wing liberal nail being driven into the coffin of a dying left-wing liberal dishonest newspaper.
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The seven dwarfs stopped by the National Constitution Center last week to make goofy promises that hopefully none will ever be able to keep.
Sen. John Kerry, the multimillionaire (he married the Widow Heinz), stopped by Pat's Steaks for a photo op and blew it. The haughty French-looking Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam, asked for Swiss cheese on his steak. He should have asked for Brie. He got what he deserved - Cheez Whiz.
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Just a few hours after the Northeastern power grid went down, shutting off electricity for 50 million Americans, Hillary Clinton took to the airwaves to blame President Bush and his energy policies for it.
But ask yourself this: Who opposes the expansion of energy in this country and the modernization of our out-dated electrical system? If you answered the left-wing, liberal, tree-hugging environmentalists you get a gold star.
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Wow! And the big news is the IRS lost what could be a precedent-setting case.
A Memphis, Tenn., jury found FedEx pilot Vernice Kuglin, 58, not guilty of evading income taxes on $920,000. The question of payment of the taxes was left undecided. Ms. Kuglin, a pilot for FedEx since 1985, was charged with six counts of tax evasion and faced up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines if found guilty of filing false W4 forms for the period from 1996 to 2001.
It seems that things didn't go quite the way federal prosecutor Joe Murphy envisioned they would. According to reports, after the jury returned not guilty verdicts on all counts, Murphy is said to have demanded that the judge order Ms. Kuglin to file her forms, pay her taxes and "obey the law". The judge reportedly replied, "Sir, I don't work for the IRS."
Defense attorney Larry Becraft said after the verdict, the federal tax code is a confusing conglomeration that "at best is a walking due process violation," and noted that the average American simply doesn't understand the tax code.
Juror Barbara Snodgras of Memphis told the Appeal that the jury did not convict because "we all felt that the prosecution didn't prove its case."
If this leads to a simple tax so that the average American can understand it, it should be named to honor Vernice Kuglin. Meanwhile, we urge our readers not to try it without first getting good legal advice. ***
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Well, there we go. Walter Mitty Cronkite and Ahnold. By the way, you two dweebs, Colin Powell described himself that way years ago.
Independent, huh? I wonder when the last time it was that Walter voted for someone other than the most left-wing candidate?
It gave the synonyms for 'liberal' as 'progressive,' 'broad-minded,' 'unprejudiced,' 'beneficent.' The antonyms it offered: 'reactionary' and 'intolerant.' "I've always suspected those fine folks at Random House of being liberals. You just can't trust anybody these days."
Sure, Walter. Gore sending an army of lawyers to Florida, along with memos on how to block the military absentee vote: that wasn't reactionary, was it? Or intolerant?
It's nice to live in your own little world. Why don't you just go sailing and shaddup.
Cronkite forgot to look up the definition of "communist"
Today's Democrat Party is more communist than liberal, but pretending to be liberal makes it much easier to be "progressive" ie. "pro-agressive.
Cronkite, who says he is registered as an "Independent," claims to be a fiscal conservative and a social liberal.
I couldn't write left-wing commentary on a bet. hadit2here noted that he couldn't even write left-wing biased news copy when he was trying to write a parody of it. Given that Walter Cronkite was the exemplar of what passed for objective journalism in the Eisenhower era, it is small wonder that journalism could and did synthesize the myth of "McCarthyism" back then.If you consider the combination of the journalism Establishment and the way the FDR/HST administrations were dominated by fellow travelers, Communists, and outright Soviet agents, the marvel is that any democracy/freedom of speech at all remains to us. The tradition of respect for the Constitution was powerful indeed, to allow us to ascend from the pit which was the FDR Administration to the height which was the Reagan Administration.
The con that Gore had the FL election sewed up nearly turned the 2000 election, and I still marvel that a Republican Administration with a Republican Congress can do nothing to reform that. broadcast discussion of politics--especially journalism--on election day is undue influence which should be outlawed. Yet for all its vaunted power PR does have its limits. Reagan proved that its "a sucker born every minute" cynicism can be overcome by faith.
trouble is, the "me first, I'm rich and priviledged, and I don't want no stinking energy saving devices near MY property but the rest of you can drive neon's to work, yada yada, yada".....crowd is also the "do as I preach,not as I do" crowd....
people like Cronkite come out strong against you and I and against our SUV's and drilling in ANWAR but just you don't go expecting THEM to sacrifice...no siree...
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