Tag Archives: “Tea Party” movement
Ethics Dunce: Rep. Michele Bachmann
Like Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, and other political figures (as well as too many outspoken celebrities to list), Rep. Bachmann not only is reckless about displaying her ignorance, but also unapologetic for it. This is irresponsible and arrogant, and for a leader of a political movement that invokes America’s origins and its Founding Fathers at the drop of a three-cornered hat, it is cynical and offensive as well. Continue reading
The Status of Dismissed Gay Troops: An Ethics Test For The GOP
Despite the biases of their supporters, Republicans have an ethical and a patriotic duty to support Smith’s proposal. The only reasons for doing otherwise are mean-spiritedness, bigotry, and cynical pandering to the worst instincts of their constituency. Continue reading
The Ignorant Citizen’s Ethical Duty Not To Make Others As Stupid As He Is
Maybe if aspiring political activists do their civic duty and become less ignorant themselves, they won’t attempt to make our children more ignorant. Continue reading
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Blood Libel Ethics and the U.S. News Media’s Integrity Dead End
The news media’s self-destructive obsession with discrediting Sarah Palin has reached its ethical nadir, and with it any reasonable hope that U.S. journalism, as currently practiced, will be returning to credibility and respectability within the foreseeable future. Continue reading
Ethics Dunce: Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.)
I know that Ethics Alarms has been a bit relentless regarding the accusations and the innuendos against Sarah Palin and others in the wake of the Arizona shooting, but it is an unusually widespread out-break of unfair conduct, and the Ethics Dunces are coming in waves, and from all sides and sectors. Continue reading
Ethics Final For Barack Obama
If the President emulates his Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton, using the massacre in Arizona as a political wedge the way Clinton used the Oklahoma City bombing—if he adopts the philosophy of former Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emmanuel that one should never waste a crisis—then we will know the dispiriting truth about Barack Obama. Continue reading
On the Post-Shooting Finger-Pointing Apology Watch
The list of supposedly responsible commentators and elected officials who engaged in this is too long to compile, but everyone should take note of which of them has the integrity and the honesty not only to apologize to those they smeared and the public they willfully misled, but also to pledge never to do something like this again. Continue reading
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Partisan Opportunism: The Media and the Arizona Massacre:
The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Federal judge, and 18 others yesterday has exposed media bias and unfairness at its despicable worst. Continue reading
Disrespect for a Sacred Document
Thank goodness seven-year-olds don’t read the New York Times or watch CNN, for they would be left with the impression that one large segment of the American media and political class has a cynical disregard for the document that underlies America’s values and culture, and that made the nation’s astonishing success and achievements possible. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “Ethics Dunce: Rep. Michele Bachman”
Oh, how I LOVE LOVE LOVE this comment, from “ruralcounsel,” regarding my post about Michele Bachmann embarrassing herself in New Hampshire! Continue reading →
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