David Broder: Can the Conspiracy Theories
John on September 7, 2006 at 1:39 pm
David Broder is one of the sage old men of the Washington press corps and is widely respected by the left. Today, Michelle Malkin notes his piece in the Washington Post which calls on members of the lefty media to aplogize to Karl Rove:
[C]aution has been notably lacking in some of the press treatment of this subject — especially when it comes to Karl Rove. And it behooves us in the media to examine that behavior, not just sweep it under the rug.
Broder then names lefty heroes Sid “viscious” Blumenthal, Newsweek and Joe Conason. Personally I think he could have added a lot of bloggers to that list including Jason Leopold at Truthout and hundreds if not thousands of diarists at Daily Kos. Broder ends his piece this way:
These and other publications owe Karl Rove an apology. And all of journalism needs to relearn the lesson: Can the conspiracy theories and stick to the facts.
That’s a truly interesting idea, David. What if “can” all the conspiracy theories not just from the news pages but from the blogs and from the lips of Senators and Congresspersons. Imagine — in your best John Lennon way — a world without the following:
- Plamegate (Broder’s piece)
- 2004 election conspiracies
- Reinstating the draft conspiracies
- 2000 election conspiracies
- 9/11 conspiracies
- Neo-con conspiracies
- Coming of Theocracy! conspiracies
- Terrorist arrest conspiracies
- Threat level conspiracies
If we remove all the discussion of the “vast right wing conspiracy” — what is left of the left?
Update 09/08: Chris Matthews floats a new conspiracy twist to Plamegate.
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Yeah! I agree!!! And while were at it…let Kenneth Starr who spent $50 million tax-payer dollars charging, convicting and sentencing the Clintons of numerous crimes and WAY to many conspiracies using the Main-stream media without one single shred of evidence (except Lewinski)?
Let the Main-stream media who spent eight years chewing on the Clintons by way of the numerous and ludicrous conspiracy theories generated by right-wing moonbats apologize. The e-mails of the “death list”. The $200 haircut in St. Louis and all the rest. Where are the apologies? We’re still waiting two-face!!! No apologies? Nobody on the right with their numerous faces and even more anti-Clinton conspiracies have yet to have the balls to apologize for their bullshit. Why? Cowards. Shut the fuck up!
September 8, 2006 @ 12:20 amSyntax, you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about. There was plenty more brought to light by the Starr investigation:
Those aren’t conspiracies, they’re crimes. Sadly, we never got to the bottom of the magic Whitewater files that appeared in Hillary’s closet for which she should have been charged with obstruction, her $100K futures bonanza for which she should have been charged with insider trading, the 800 raw FBI files in the White House, the transfer of missile technology to China or the 48-hour orgy of politically and financially motivated pardons with which Clinton ended his Presidency. Not to mention his complete failure to address the terrorist threat after the first twin towers bombing in ’93. He never even went the site where 6 were killed and 1000 injured.
Apologize? He owes the American people an apology first.
September 8, 2006 @ 9:32 am