Impeachment: Cuttin’ Through The Crap
The Only Republican in San Francisco has a great post disecting a Vanity Fair article by Carl Bernstein. The article discusses the multitude of reasons for impeachment, though it does not reference or present any evidence to support these claims. TORinSF does an incredible job of showing exactly how misleading and disingenous the article is. For example,
We are four paragraphs in and the term “Watergate†has been used seven times already. Note that he wants to investigate the presidency — an excellent way to avoid having to debate any issue on its merits.So far, no substantial assertions about anything that has occured since, say, Bush’s election in 2000. Mr. Bernstein may be telegraphing his frame of reference, just a bit.
TORinSF’s evaluation elucidates what is all too common amongst those who oppose the President; wild assertions, without the presentation of facts or evidence to support the argument.
While Mr. Bernstein raises the issue of NSA Wiretapping, “brutal interrogations of prisoners shipped secretly by the C.I.A. and U.S. military to Third World gulags,” Hurricane Katrina, and the death of Pat Tillman, he fails to provide the grounds for such assertions, aside from speculation. I’m surprised Mr. Bernstein didn’t accuse President Bush of being the second shooter, somewhere on the grassy knoll.
It’s very simple to come up with wild conspiracy theories, it is irresponsible to do so without evidenciary support. Articles that do such belong in the weekly world news.
Posted by The Gentle Cricket