Comments on: Conservatives Convene A Journalistic Ethics Conference

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:03:05 +0000

Both Wilson’s and Willey’s decision to put a name and face on the acusations gave their respective stories enough heft to warrant full above-the-fold coverage.

Accusations that the President of the U.S. ordered a hit on a cat?!?!

Heavens, man. Get a hold of yourself!

By: Dr. Victor Davis Handjob

Dr. Victor Davis Handjob — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:02:22 +0000

Farris, thank you for your thoughts, but I don’t understand what Bill Clinton has to do with St. McCain repeatedly lying to the American people about St. McCain’s influence-for-campaign-money scheme. Perhaps you can explain why McCain sees fit to repeatedly and blatantly lie to us.

By: Dr. Victor Davis Handjob

Dr. Victor Davis Handjob — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:01:52 +0000

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:24:32 +0000

Please peddle the bullshit to people who don’t know how to use Google.
“Beginning in late 1993, Nichols and three other individuals who received payments from Citizens told the press that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, ordered state law enforcement officials to turn a blind eye to a cocaine trafficking ring operating out of Mena, a small Arkansas airport 120 miles west of Little Rock. Nichols and the group’s other paid “witnesses” alleged that Clinton protected the cocaine operation because one of the ring’s backers was a Clinton campaign contributor. They also alleged the drug smuggling ring was connected to a covert U.S. intelligence operation in Central America.

The allegations quickly found their way to talk radio programs and onto the Internet and began moving into the mainstream via articles in the American Spectator and the conservative Washington Times.

But what ultimately legitimized the allegations was a series of editorials and articles on the subject that appeared in 1994 on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

Rep. Jim Leach, (R-Iowa), chairman of the House Banking Committee, acknowledged in an interview in the fall of l996 that he had directed his committee staff to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Mena allegations after first reading about them in the Wall Street Journal.

“I read the Journal editorial page with great interest,” Leach told Salon. “They raised some very serious and interesting issues. And I made the decision that it should be an appropriate subject of a committee investigation.”"

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:13:54 +0000

EL & QiaB,

Both Wilson’s and Willey’s decision to put a name and face on the acusations gave their respective stories enough heft to warrant full above-the-fold coverage. Giving your name doesn’t constitute “proof” persay, but it makes it more than just a rumor off a crackpot website that doesn’t deserve to see the light of coverage (like L. Bush’s abortion and the Clinton Airport Massacres). Until there’s actual EVIDENCE in this case (a dress, an email, an on-the-record allegation), it doesn’t belong on the front page of the “Paper of Record”.

PS: If this is the dirt you’re slinging now, I can’t WAIT to see what type of “fake but accurate” stuff you guys are holding onto for October.

By: midderpidge

midderpidge — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:41:08 +0000

The story only covers that McCranky’s staff thought he might be having an affair. McCain’s favors he did for the woman are a matter of record. Happy?

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:38:01 +0000

Kathleen Willey’s on-the-record accusation.

Wait. Farris you’re saying that the fact Willey is on the record with her “Bill-Clinton-killed-my-cat” accusation makes it credible?

That’s funny.

By: Enlightened Liberal

Enlightened Liberal — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:45:53 +0000

“Kathleen Willey’s on-the-record accusation. If those alleging McCain had the affair go ON RECORD, it’s a whole different ballgame.”

So you agree that Joe Wilson’s claims were truthful? After all, he was on the record.

By: duros62

duros62 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:45 +0000

And now that one of yours gets caught with their pants down, you reach for the fainting couch.

One? I count at least a dozen.

By: Dr. Victor Davis Handjob

Dr. Victor Davis Handjob — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:17:03 +0000

Anyway, Marc Ambinder highlighted a great quote from McCain’s autobiography, Worth the Fighting:

“I have refrained from ever intervening in the regulatory decisions of the federal government if such intervention could be construed, rightly or wrongly, as done solely or primarily for the benefit of a major financial supporter of my campaign.”

Turns out Mr. Straight Talk is actually a flat-out liar. Don’t let St. McCain off the hook for this one.

By: Dr. Victor Davis Handjob

Dr. Victor Davis Handjob — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:07:45 +0000

I swear I only hit submit once. Sorry about that.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:04:10 +0000

Kathleen Willey’s on-the-record accusation. If those alleging McCain had the affair go ON RECORD, it’s a whole different ballgame.

By: Dr. Victor Davis Handjob

Dr. Victor Davis Handjob — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:00:42 +0000

Before long, the right wing will be so desperate to try to smear Obama that they’ll stoop to anything: saying that he’s secret, madrassah-trained Muslim terrorist; that he’s a secret black nationalist Farrakhan stooge; that he and Michelle hate America; that he was a coke dealer; that he’s a communist. It’ll be one year-long Macaca moment for the GOP.

By November, McAncient will be lucky to get 35%, thanks to the extremist psychos who comprise the Malkin/Freeper/Glenn Reynolds wing of the right.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:42:33 +0000

Don’t be naive, OW. We know Bill was running cocaine out of the Mena airport and had, like, 79,000 people murdered. Oh and he killed Katherine Willey’s cat too.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:38:34 +0000

Really, and there was evidence Bill Clinton was a rapist? That Hillary Clinton had Vince Foster killed?

Suddenly the bar for evidence swings mysteriously out of reach.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:32:35 +0000

Again, with Clinton there was evidence (the blue dress.) If there’s no EVIDENCE, then there’s no story.

By the way, remember all the times your side of the aisle made the case that George W. Bush was History’s Greatest Monster? And one of the supporting pieces of evidence was his supposed black baby “smear” of McCain in South Carolina? Well, the NYT (and you) doing the EXACT SAME THING now. What does that make you?