The American press, and a portion of the populace, demand that politicians be as pure as clergymen. (Okay, bad example.)
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who rose to power on his reputation as a crusader against white collar crime and lax ethics, has been implicated as a client of a high-end prostitution ring. My reaction? Here we go again.…
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76 - Clavos
"My point was about Fox news openly (even though it was not serious per se, suggesting that a person excercising their free speech rights be hauled off to another country and tortured."
1. I don't get my news from television (except for local news), so I didn't see the segment to which you refer. How could I comment on something I've never seen? I certainly won't comment based on your assessment of the report, given the strongly skewed viewpoints you hold on practically anything, as revealed in your comments since you arrived here.
2. Case in point: now, you admit the remark was said in jest. You didn't mention that very salient fact the first time you brought it up. Had I commented previously, I would have been expressing an opinion based on insufficient facts filtered through your twisted, bizarre biases, which is exactly why I didn't comment.
3. Re #70: No, I don't believe your (and others') theories about 9/11 having been an "inside job."
77 - Pablo
Clavos,
Yes the remarks were in jest. I suppose in your book it is ok for these kind of remarks to be aired on a national news network. It does not surprise me however.
78 - Clavos
"I suppose in your book it is ok for these kind of remarks to be aired on a national news network. It does not surprise me however."
As usual, you attempt to impute thoughts and attitudes to people you don't even know.
You have no idea what I think, except for what I choose to post here, and I have said nothing about the jest; simply because I never saw it; I have no idea whether it actually even happened, much less the context.
79 - Dave Nalle
Pablo, if you admit the remark is in jest, then couldn't the nature of that jest have been an ironic critique of the restriction of free speech in the current political climate?
Dave
80 - Pablo
The clip in question was not fox, but msnbc, I have a hard time differentiating between the two, and I know that Clavos being the anal retentive he is will probably jump all over me for it. Anyways here is the link and I would like to hear Dave's response to it. cnbc story
This kind of reporting in my view respresents the worst of so-called American Journalism. This person was excercising their first amendment rights, to ridicule him is one thing, to actually say that this person should be sent off to a secret prison for rendition, is quite another.