Had a lib professor that I liked to argue with, said "everything is politics, everything"(Got my hard left insight from him). I of course said that is not the case. He adamantly disagreed. I don't see this as a power struggle between the state and fed gov'ts insofar as I see it as a political struggle, i.e. dems cannot let a repub be seen as helpful. For a liberal, nothing transcends politics. We saw this only one week after 9/11. We see that today in Iraq. The libs are ready to take down this nation rather than have the GOP in power, let alone conservatives.
I think the media drives this story only because the think the can hurt the GOP with it. Characterize the GOP as racist, etc. I see this as a right v. left battle instead of a fed v. state battle. All for the reason that "everything is politics" to the left.
Can not argue with that!
Elba Wilson Carswell, a kinsman of mine, was the Chairman for the Department of Journalism at Louisiana Tech University, back during the 70s and 80s. He was a recipient of the coveted Tower Award.
He had a personal code of ethics that he required all majors in Journalism to adhere in their writings while at Louisiana Tech. If these same code of ethics were applied today... to all journalism... we would have no journalist, reporters, talking heads or any type of news media. They would simply be put out of business due to the integrity of those creating news.