Tag Archives: Sean Hannity
The Damage Incompetent Pundits Do: Criminal Defense Misconceptions
Myths that won’t die: guilty defendants can’t testify that they are innocent (they can) and lawyers can’t defend criminals they know are guilty (they must.) Continue reading
Newt Gingrich: Ethics Victim…Ethics Miscreant…Walking, Talking Ethics Lesson
I’m glad Newt Gingrich is in the presidential race, however foolishly and futilely. He is perhaps the perfect illustration of how a potential political leader’s private personal conduct is not only relevant to assessing his fitness to lead, but predictive of it. Continue reading
Death Photo Ethics
Ethics obligates us to care about treating others, even those who hate us, better than they would treat us. If there is no national security benefit to showing the world Osama bin Laden with a bullet in his head, then the decision is matter of ethics alone, and the question is whether the United States embraces our values, or those of its enemies. Continue reading
Calm Down, Hannity! Superman’s Decision is Super-Ethical.
All in all, Superman’s decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship is wholly patriotic, diplomatically useful, ethical, and practically meaningless. Continue reading
Lara Logan’s Cairo Ordeal Starts An Ethics Train Wreck
What happened to “60 Minutes” Correspondent Laura Logan, was such an unambiguous example of brutality and criminal conduct that you wouldn’t think it could raise any ethical controversies. But the already nasty incident has metastasized into a full-fledged Ethics Train Wreck, with both the Left and the Right taking turns disgracing themselves. Continue reading
Spin or Fairness? Fox News and “the public option”
Media watchdog Howard Kurtz’s latest column for “The Daily Beast” illustrates how tricky achieving both objective and accurate journalism can be difficult, and sometimes impossible. Continue reading
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Deficit Reduction Ethics: We’re All Selfish Dunces, and We’ll Be Sorry
If Americans were responsible, honest, fair and genuinely concerned about America’s future prosperity and strength, we would just buckle down take deep breaths, and agree to make the sacrifices necessary to put the nation back on the road to fiscal health. But we won’t, will we? Continue reading
Filed under Citizenship, Ethics Dunces, Finance, Government & Politics, Leadership, U.S. Society
Ethics Dunce: Mercedes Colwin
Fox legal analyst Mercedes Colwin just spectacularly and irresponsibly misinformed Sean Hannity’s radio audience, and added to the widespread and incorrect belief that it is somehow unethical for an attorney to represent a client the attorney knows is guilty. (It is not.) Compounding her reckless mistake, she noted that she had been “a judge,” thus giving apparent credibility to her utterly erroneous characterization of how criminal defense works. This was also misleading: Colwin was an administrative law judge, which has nothing whatsoever to do with criminal justice. Continue reading →
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