While the Philadelphia Inquirer publishes Letters To The Editor chastising Hillary Clinton and singing hosannas to Joe Lieberman for his support of the Iraq debacle (in a Sunday Review and Opinion section misnamed with the vague moniker of "Currents," which seems to shrink each week...now at five pages), and supports the victory of the McCain Amendment on torture (which is good, but how pathetic is it that Dubya fought that as ferociously as he did?), here is what that august bastion of journalism at its ivory tower on 400 North Broad Street had to say about Dubya's decision to spy on Americans without court oversight.
Nothing.
I'm sure an editorial is forthcoming, and it may be excellent, but timing has a lot to do with this stuff. Meanwhile, MANY newspapers in this country have already spoken out against it (all you have to do to note which ones is to go the The Huffington Post). This includes the Kansas City Star (in RED STATE territory, for crying out loud).
Let's stop printing these dippy columns on men and women's relationships and your cutesy Christmas stories in space that should be taken up with the words of more writers like Trudy Rubin, OK?
Update 12/22: To be fair, they nailed it today (registration required). The problem is that everyone else beat them to it.
1 comment:
Brendan,
I was over at the Penn Mutual building in the early 90s...used to take the R3 to Market East and inhale the Cinnabon ambrosia as I made my way from the councourse up to 6th and Arch. I never thought I'd miss a walk along Market Street at lunch, especially this time of year, but I do. I went back and forth between Stern and DeBella on the radio, of course. Yep, it ended up being a better time than I thought it would be.
Happy non-O'Reilly holidays and all that...thanks for checking in with the good words and for the good stuff of your own.
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