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11 Sep 2008 01:25 pm
Putin's America, Ctd.
A reader writes:
You're right, Moynihan is wrong. Protecting Palin in a bubble is just
an extension of the concept of "free speech zones" where protestors are
herded in small areas far from whoever is speaking. I recall the quote
from someone surprised about this: "What? I thought the whole United
States was free speech zone." Not under Bush, and McCain will increase
the distancing and marginalization of the ruled from the rulers.
I am
not a great fan of our self-important and self-infatuated media and its
mindless pack mentality focus on drivel, but the McCain campaign's
tactics are a new low. The Bush Administration has demonstrated
contempt for the courts and argued that its members are not answerable
to Congress, McCain is implicitly arguing that his won't be answerable
to the 4th Estate. Maybe it's not Putin yet, but it sure as hell is
not the representative government that I grew up with.
What we are witnessing is something we should genuinely fear. That the press is complicit is an appalling dereliction of duty. Duty.
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