http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/sports/football/01nfl.html

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell to explain why the league destroyed evidence related to spying by the New England Patriots.

In the stretch of 12 days, from Sept. 9 to Sept. 20, the Patriots were caught filming the Jets’ defensive signals in violation of N.F.L. rules, ordered to hand over all tapes of illegal filming to the league office, fined $750,000 and made to forfeit a first-round draft pick.

Then the N.F.L. announced it had destroyed the evidence.

In a telephone interview Thursday morning, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania and ranking member of the committee, said that Goodell would eventually be called before the committee to address two issues: the league’s antitrust exemption in relation to its television contract and the destruction of the tapes that revealed spying by the Patriots.

“That requires an explanation,” Specter said. “The N.F.L. has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It’s analogous to the C.I.A. destruction of tapes. Or any time you have records destroyed.”

Could there possibly be any clearer indication of what is wrong with our country? A leading member of Congress can't fucking tell the difference in significance between the destruction of evidence of a professional football team getting the defensive signals of another team and the CIA destroying evidence that it tortured prisoners.

that the Patriots, at least, have been punished for their transgression. But Specter still needs to have something to huff and puff about so that the American people might not notice that our Congress is basically irrelevant.

Sure you might protest that deporting Democrats like Rush Limbaugh wants to do is unConstitutional, but the Constitution isn't a suicide pact.

Sure you might protest that "our leaders" "round[ing] up" their critics in concentration camps forever like Mike Gallagher wants is unConstitutional, but the Constitution isn't a suicide pact.

Sure you might protest that torturing the liberals the goverment doesn't kill (because it can) in GITMO like Ann Coulter wants is unConstitutional, but the Constitution isn't a suicide pact.

Sure you might tell Ben Shapiro and Michelle Malkin that using concentration camps to silence critics is unAmerican, but the founders never intended for the Constitution to be a suicide pact.

Sure you might tell Bill O'Reilly that inviting terrorists to bomb an American city is evil, but if San Francisco want to make a suicide pact with al Qaeda, that's their business.

Sure hanging critics to death like Michael Reagan wants is unConstitutional, but the Constitution isn't a suicide pact.

And so on and so forth ...

Ruthless mockery.

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them" - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, July 30, 1816

Someone in the press corps would have had legitimate grounds to ask that question yesterday. President Bush said that critics say we can still engage in surveillance under FISA, but that's not true because FISA is outdated and has gaps in it blah blah yada yada.

Couldn't one single member of the press corps have asked if that's the case why did the president tell Congress when they previously offered to update FISA that he already had all the tools he needed.

Don't these people mind being lied to?

Opponent of warrantless surveillance of US citizens = "far left"

"Far left" = "liberal"

"Liberal" = Fascist

To cartoon conservatives, only fascists opposed warrantless surveillance.

On the Neal Boortz radio show, regular guest and professional H. Clinton basher Dick Morris said that if Clinton becomes president she will abuse the expanded executive powers the Bush administration has created. Bush hasn't abused those powers, said Morris, but Clinton will.

With all the talk from the likes of Goldberg, Beck, and O'REilly about "liberals" being Nazis and fascists, one can expect that a moment a Democrat becomes president cartoon conservatives will start fearing for their lives from the gangs of Liberal Fascist green-shirts they expect to be roaming the streets assaulting anyone who consumes trans fats and doesn't recycle.

Human Rights Watch are far left thugs ... just ask Michelle Malkin

The ACLU are fascists. More dangerous than al Qaeda ... just ask BIll O'REilly.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802290019?f=h_clips

O'REilly:Now, first of all, I appreciate your letter very much, sir, and I've thought about it. If you look back at what happened in Germany, you cannot escape the similarities between what Hitler and his cutthroats did back then and the hate-filled blogs, what they're doing now.

From the late 1920s to 1933, when Hitler became chancellor, the Nazis used vile propaganda to demonize Jews and others in the eyes of the German people. They used newspapers, radio, leaflets, and rallies to build up enormous hatred towards your family.

Today, we are seeing the same thing on the Net here in America. There's no difference.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/02/another-60-minutes-debacle/#comment-257863

Malkin commenter:The end justifies the means. Lies, cheating, etc., it means nothing to “journalists” anymore. It’s all about agenda. IMO, O’Reilly had a point the other day that this stuff is just like what was going on in the ’30’s propaganda of the German people. Hate, hate, hate. That’s what pushes MSM today. Truth is a lost commodity. The public had better wake up to what is going on.