As posted earlier, I find this whole Jeff Gannon/James Guckert scandal an outrageous betrayal of the public trust on the part of the White House. If this, along with all the pundit pay-offs had happened in the 90s, don't you think the So-Called Liberal Media would be calling for Clinton's head?
The thing is, it wouldn't have happened under Clinton -- and while the fact that the Democratic party tries to play by the rules more often than the Republicans may mean that they end up losing more than their share of elections, if the alternative is to endorse such blatantly anti-American tactics as fascistically trying to control the news media for political ends -- well, I'm just glad that we have an alternative.
I used to think the two parties were essentially similar, but the Republican party as represented by the current administration is an unforgivable stain on the fabric of a country whose professed ideals, while rarely attained, were once noble and just. "Whatever it takes to get ahead" should not be an American value.
Torture, propoganda, rule of might -- these aren't the American ideals taught in my 9th-grade civics class. I want the America they promised me as a kid, goddamit!
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