Comments on: Bush And The Press http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Joshua http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/#comment-4797 Joshua Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:14:02 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/#comment-4797 If George W. Bush seriously expects the MSM, of all institutions, to effectively censor itself for whatever purpose, I guess he has never heard the old fable of the fox and the scorpion. (Refresher: Scorpion hitches ride on fox's back as fox crosses river. Halfway across, scorpion stings fox, condemning them both to death. Dying fox asks scorpion why he stung him, to which scorpion replies, "What did you expect; I'm a scorpion!") If George W. Bush seriously expects the MSM, of all institutions, to effectively censor itself for whatever purpose, I guess he has never heard the old fable of the fox and the scorpion. (Refresher: Scorpion hitches ride on fox’s back as fox crosses river. Halfway across, scorpion stings fox, condemning them both to death. Dying fox asks scorpion why he stung him, to which scorpion replies, “What did you expect; I’m a scorpion!”)

]]> By: AlanDownunder http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/#comment-4795 AlanDownunder Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:17:42 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/#comment-4795 Froggy Nightingale, If it was such a good idea, the Prez could have asked Congress for an amendment to FISA to make what he wanted to not a crime. Instead he commited crimes. What's your take on mandatory penalties and truth in sentencing? Froggy Nightingale,

If it was such a good idea, the Prez could have asked Congress for an amendment to FISA to make what he wanted to not a crime. Instead he commited crimes.

What’s your take on mandatory penalties and truth in sentencing?

]]> By: rosignol http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/#comment-4792 rosignol Tue, 27 Dec 2005 03:12:21 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/#comment-4792 It would stay underground if it wasn't being leaked. Nobody really does investigative journalism any more... what's going in is that various parties are feeding reporters bits of information. Something seriously wrong is going on for so many people to leak classified information, but I don't know what, and the leaks are not enlightening. For example, I think it's a good idea to monitor phone numbers found in the phones and papers of terrorists- that the number is in the possession of a terrorist is, IMO, sufficent probable cause to justify tapping it. But the NYT and WaPo are making a big deal out of it, but don't explain why we shouldn't be doing this. What am I missing? It would stay underground if it wasn’t being leaked. Nobody really does investigative journalism any more… what’s going in is that various parties are feeding reporters bits of information.

Something seriously wrong is going on for so many people to leak classified information, but I don’t know what, and the leaks are not enlightening. For example, I think it’s a good idea to monitor phone numbers found in the phones and papers of terrorists- that the number is in the possession of a terrorist is, IMO, sufficent probable cause to justify tapping it. But the NYT and WaPo are making a big deal out of it, but don’t explain why we shouldn’t be doing this.

What am I missing?

]]> By: Craig R. http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/#comment-4790 Craig R. Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:26:27 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/bush-and-the-press/#comment-4790 This whole adminstration, and their hanger-ons don't seem to realize that newspaper and magazine writers have a vested interest in digging out this dirt. And there are enough free-lancers who have the need to prove themselves able to swim with the big fish in the pond that cracking down on "established" media people won't get the story to stay underground. This whole adminstration, and their hanger-ons don’t seem to realize that newspaper and magazine writers have a vested interest in digging out this dirt.

And there are enough free-lancers who have the need to prove themselves able to swim with the big fish in the pond that cracking down on “established” media people won’t get the story to stay underground.

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