EtTu MSNBC?
By Capt. Fogg
I had MSNBC on most of yesterday. I can't stand the sight of Wolf the Weasel and what other choice is possible?
I'm disappointed. When the evening network news came on I began to learn facts the cable guys never mentioned, That the FBI had investigated these boys, for instance and they managed to give us the facts without the constant theme of "you can see that it's been worth it to give up our privacy." Cowards! Is this what it means to be a Liberal today? Sacrificing freedom for some imagined and miniscule increase in safety?
Needless to say, I don't think so. I don't think this gruesome incident is anywhere near the calamity it's being made out to be. It's no worse than a good part of the world has to put up with all the time and that it's being made out to be something on the order of WW III it's only because giving up our privacy is only a taste of what some would have us give up. The Right, predictably, is growling about Miranda rights because we can't go around thinking that this crime is a crime and a US citizen is entitled to civil rights if he's motivated by some sick religious doctrine that isn't Christian. Is this pathetic teenage loser an "enemy combatant" while Tim McVeigh, David Koresh and Jim Jones weren't?
It has to be a WAR because then all's fair therein including making a mockery of our Bill of Rights. It has to be a war so that they can find yet another reason to attack Obama as a weakling, or perhaps a clandestine Muslim for trying to fulfill his oath to preserve and defend the same Constitution the Republicans have seen as a stumbling block for years.
Of course the NBC reporter who told us last night that we'd just witnessed "the greatest manhunt in American history" needs to go back to school if indeed he's ever attended or at least read up on Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, Jesse James and of course John Wilkes Booth, but such idiocy is all part of the effort to make everything seem like a catastrophe and every crime an apocalypse.
I have to be impressed however with Boston and Massachusetts law enforcement, both for their efficiency and their restraint. Supporters of the "government can't do anything right" battle cry should take this opportunity to shut the hell up.
I had MSNBC on most of yesterday. I can't stand the sight of Wolf the Weasel and what other choice is possible?
I'm disappointed. When the evening network news came on I began to learn facts the cable guys never mentioned, That the FBI had investigated these boys, for instance and they managed to give us the facts without the constant theme of "you can see that it's been worth it to give up our privacy." Cowards! Is this what it means to be a Liberal today? Sacrificing freedom for some imagined and miniscule increase in safety?
Needless to say, I don't think so. I don't think this gruesome incident is anywhere near the calamity it's being made out to be. It's no worse than a good part of the world has to put up with all the time and that it's being made out to be something on the order of WW III it's only because giving up our privacy is only a taste of what some would have us give up. The Right, predictably, is growling about Miranda rights because we can't go around thinking that this crime is a crime and a US citizen is entitled to civil rights if he's motivated by some sick religious doctrine that isn't Christian. Is this pathetic teenage loser an "enemy combatant" while Tim McVeigh, David Koresh and Jim Jones weren't?
It has to be a WAR because then all's fair therein including making a mockery of our Bill of Rights. It has to be a war so that they can find yet another reason to attack Obama as a weakling, or perhaps a clandestine Muslim for trying to fulfill his oath to preserve and defend the same Constitution the Republicans have seen as a stumbling block for years.
Of course the NBC reporter who told us last night that we'd just witnessed "the greatest manhunt in American history" needs to go back to school if indeed he's ever attended or at least read up on Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, Jesse James and of course John Wilkes Booth, but such idiocy is all part of the effort to make everything seem like a catastrophe and every crime an apocalypse.
I have to be impressed however with Boston and Massachusetts law enforcement, both for their efficiency and their restraint. Supporters of the "government can't do anything right" battle cry should take this opportunity to shut the hell up.
posted by Libby Spencer at 9:04 AM
3 Comments:
Totally agree. Massive media fail on all counts and the LEOs did a great job even though seeing the tanks on the streets of Boston was more than a little bit disconcerting.
A more welcome sight than they were during the 1968 Democratic convention when they weren't after mad bombers, they were after US.
I was quite impressed that they recognized the need to take this perp alive and had the patience and restraint to do it, that they had the sense to keep reporters at a distance and told them only what they needed to know in order to keep the false and speculative chatter to a minimum.
Should be a model for all law enforcement.
They showed a lot more restraint than they get credit for on the internets today. What I'm finding most interesting is the sudden great concern I'm seeing among conservatives about LEO overreach. Actually saw somebody post that cops shouldn't be allowed to have AR-15 type guns. Assume by that they mean, only civilian true patriots should be allowed those.
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