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• Friday, June 29, 2007 10:30 AM

  Brilliant article - with one exception.

  As always, Glenn, you deliver a great column that cuts through the childishly immature mindset that clouds up so much of our news coverage. The only exception I take to your argument (and it may have been pointed out. I didn’t read all the prior responses) is the same exception I took in the early days of this war when people said it was patriotism that made people want to kill the Dixie Chicks for what Natalie Manes said about Bush. The love for secrecy and strong, unaccountable leaders is ONLY applicable to leaders who are Republican.

  This giddy love for what Cheney is doing not only would not be tolerated under the exact same circumstances with a Democratic administration, it would have never been allowed in the first place, having been an impeachable offense that would have ended a non-Republican administration.

  These sycophants love REPUBLICAN authority figures, NOT Democratic authority. And the people that screamed and hollered and wanted Natalie Manes head would have just laughed it off (presuming it would have even been news) had she said even more derogatory words about a President Gore or a President Kerry.

  While there may be some (Hasselbeck, perhaps) who would blindly accept government corruption “in a time of war” regardless of the party, the OVERWHELMING majority of people that act like little girls hitting puberty (Carlson, Goldberg, Matthews, O’Reilly, etc.) do this only because of the inane manly-man nonsense sold to Americans for years about a party that is otherwise completely devoid of bravery, toughness, or masculinity.

  —JKP1000 Read JKP1000's other letters
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