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Stephen Colbert’s Comedy Terrorism
Colbert King scores Stephen Colbert for a serious ethical breach that I carelessly overlooked. Continue reading →
Case Closed on Obama’s Leadership Skills
Facts are stubborn things, as John Adams said, and the fact is that the electorate, for good and understandable reasons, elected an untested young man with great campaigning skills who had shown no talent for leadership, and, as it turned out, possesses none. Continue reading →
Colbert King, Obama Abuse, Bias and Double Standards
Republicans who excuse their low blows against Obama by citing the treatment of Bush get no passes from me. But I am also not going to regard with anything but contempt the laments of commentators who deride those low blows against Obama yet who cheered the same level of abuse against Bush. Their ideological bias cost them their objectivity and fairness, as well as my respect. If they can’t see that the unethical nature of the tactics isn’t mitigated by the identity of the president they are used against, then their opinions are both meaningless and useless. And if ethical exemplars like Colbert King fall into this trap, it is no wonder that our political discourse continues to decline. Continue reading →
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More Lessons from the Sherrod Ethics Train Wreck
We learned that we can’t trust videotape to be self-explanatory, as if we didn’t know that already. We learned that we can’t trust Andrew Breitbart not to mislead us. We learned we can’t trust our government to act fairly, responsibly and with due process when political concerns loom, and that we can’t trust it to take full responsibility for its own errors. We learned the same about the N.A.A.C.P., and also that its leadership will lie to the public when it thinks the media will allow it to do so. Continue reading →
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