Letters to the Editor
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Can you spell "defensive?"
In my letters and postings all over the online and offline world, I notice the same thing: conservatives are always defensive and hostile these days, and they seem to fall back on the same two tactics: ad hominem attacks on us "moonbat liberals" and absurd attacks on Bill Clinton (exceeded in their non sequitur strangeness only by attacks on Ted Kennedy). Why? Because they have nothing else. They're desperate. The entire conservative movement is crumbling under the weight of incompetence and hubris and Christian Right hypocrisy and rampant corruption.
Valerie Plame's identity was common knowledge? Even if that were true (which it isn't), that's not the point. The point is, to reveal that identity to a reporter for any reason is a felony. Period. To reveal criminal acts such as illegal prisons and domestic wiretapping is the press' RESPONSIBILITY. The press (in theory, when it's not kissing the administration's ass), does not exist to support the government; it exists to hold that government accountable for its actions. Or as H.K. Mencken said, "To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
An activist press that is doing its duty should ALWAYS be skirting the edge of treason...because it is revealing things to us our government does not want us to know...because our leaders know they should not be doing them. The only people who don't get that are sad conservatives who stick their fingers in their ears, go "lah-lah-lah" and tell themselves America is still the greatest nation on earth, Bush is God's Gilligan, and everything will somehow turn out all right.
It won't. You're done. It's over.