Thursday, February 17, 2005
Hypocretc!
Ah, the Globe. Says Peter Caswell:
IN HER COLUMN "Sliming American troops" (op ed, Feb. 14), Cathy Young ends with the statement that "mainstream journalists should resist the temptation" to view CNN news executive Eason Jordan "as the victim of a right-wing lynch mob." Yet she leaves out a salient fact. When asked to comment on Jordan, the prominent right-winger Ann Coulter said on TV, for all to see, that she wished that the army was targeting journalists. One can draw a couple of conclusions: Either it's OK to wish that the military is targeting journalists but not to say that they are, or it's OK to say whatever you want if you're a right-winger, but if you're not, you have to parse your words even in private.
Let's do the comparison. One dude accused people of murder without evidence. The other said it'd be nice if folks were murdering other folks. Now, while you may think they're morally equivable or whatever, one is slander, the other is not. Also, Ann Coulter is not exactly a "mainstream journalist."
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