I really don't get it. Why do news organizations feel that they have to let every right wing hack receive space? I only read the Boston Globe online but this article is such a pathetic waste of time, I don't know why they bother with this clown. Drumming up the neocon script for the millionth time is really getting old and I do not understand why so many newspapers around the country feel like they have to give columns to people like this. Let the readers and viewers watch Faux News and read the Washington Times. They always think that every other news source is biased so why bother? Do they really think that their traditional readers are benefiting from their columns? Are they that confident that adding an extremist point of view in one or two columns is going to add new subscriptions?
JOHN'S ADDITION TO CHRIS' POST:
I just read the article Chris linked to, and it pissed me off. Basically, it's the same old tired "you're un-American for questioning Lord God Bush" bullshit:
TWO WEEKS ago Senator Ted Kennedy uttered what may turn out to be the single most disgusting remark made about the United States in the course of the Iraq War. The reaction to his slander - or rather, the lack of reaction - speaks volumes about the moral bankruptcy of the American left.Ted Kennedy is absolutely right, and, I'll say it again, it's high time those of us who aren't members of the vast right-wing conspiracy stood up to these Republican McCarthyites and told them to shut the fuck up. They are on a rampage to shut off all legitimate debate in this country, under the guise of "un-American activities," and all too many of us are letting them get away with it. You can write a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe here:
Speaking in the Senate on May 10, Kennedy had this to say about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal:
''On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked, 'Who would prefer that Saddam's torture chambers still be open?' Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management - US management.''
This was not a blurted, off-the-cuff comment - Kennedy was reading from a prepared text. It was not a shocked first reaction to the abuses at Abu Ghraib - the story had broken more than a week earlier. Incredibly, the senior senator from Massachusetts really was equating the disgraceful mistreatment of a few Iraqi prisoners by a few American troops with the unspeakable sadism, rape, and mass murder that had been routine under Saddam Hussein.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/write/
