Sunday, July 10, 2005

Quote for the Day, 7/10/2005   "Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes."   -Will Cuppy, How to Become Extinct, "The Rattlesnake" 10:24:36 PM    comment []

Better, and Worse, than Watergate   Frank Rich makes a false analogy in his editorial in today's New York Times, We're not in Watergate Anymore. The rest of his essay is okay.  But one of the reasons he says things are worse than Watergate is that no reporter went to jail because of Watergate.  The analogy falls apart completely there.  Because a reporter went to jail now in service of a conspiracy to attack the opponents of this administration.  So, he's saying, this is bad because no reporter went to jail in the '70s for conspiring with the people who ordered the break-in.  Well, no.  This is worse than Watergate because no reporter back in the '70s actually conspired with the administration to break the law to get people on Nixon's enemies list.  But the fact that a reporter went to jail because she won't reveal what administration officials are willing to casually break the law, just to go after people on Bush's enemies list?  Isn't that actually a good thing?  Failing to throw the government-employed criminals in jail, then shouldn't we get the people who are helping them cover up their crimes? 12:32:51 PM    comment []