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To: Erik Latranyi
B.S. Just because the sensation-ravenous drive-by media believes it needs to cover your dust-up with the authorites doesn't mean you should be held responsible when the drive-by media literally crashes and burns. The drive-by media needs to be reminded it is not an arm of government. It is, as it has always been, as Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur characterized it 75 years ago:

Journalists! Peeking through keyholes! Running after fire engines like a lot of coach dogs! Waking people up in the middle of the night to ask them what they think of Mussolini. Stealing pictures off old ladies of their daughters that get raped in Oak Park. A lot of lousy, daffy buttinskis, swelling around with holes in their pants, borrowing nickels from office boys! And for what? So a million hired girls and motormen's wives'll know what's going on.

Hecht and MacArthur were being kind.

9 posted on 07/29/2007 4:09:30 AM PDT by JennysCool ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
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To: JennysCool

I forget who said it, but there’s a great quote out there:

“There are two kinds of people in this world...
those who want to be left alone and
those who won’t leave them alone!”


20 posted on 07/29/2007 5:13:29 AM PDT by djf (Bush's legacy: Way more worried about Iraqs borders than our own!!! A once great nation... sad...)
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