The Nation - Robert Scheer - "The Nation: Glenn Beck Gets It Right"??? Calls Lieberman Liberal???

[TomCADem]

This is the thing that annoys me about some "liberal" media. They are so eager to show that they are not biased, unlike Fox, that they create false equivalencies like praising Beck (see below) or creating partnerships with folks like Grover Norquist (Jane Hamsher) while associating Joe Lieberman with liberals. Please.

"Liberal" journalists need to stop creating a false equivalencies in order to kowtow to right wing critiques that they are merely left wing versions of Fox News. Just because the corporate media says that Rachel Maddow is just the other side of the same coin as Sean Hannity does not make it true.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126604298

Credit Glenn Beck of Fox News for breaking with that sort of demagoguery and asserting that the rule of law is basic to our freedom and not just an inconvenient indulgence. "He is a citizen of the United States, so I say we uphold the laws and the Constitution on citizens," Beck had the guts to assert in a Fox broadcast. "If you are a citizen, you obey the law and follow the Constitution; has all the rights under the Constitution." Beck added, "We don't shred the Constitution when is popular. We do the right thing."

Compare those profound words of wisdom from one that many liberals loathe to the advice from a former Democratic Party vice presidential candidate for whom many of us voted. Sen. Joe Lieberman went further than McCain and argued for summarily obliterating all constitutional rights for citizens charged with terrorism. Lieberman even suggested stripping them of their citizenship before they are convicted of any crime:

I think it's time for us to look at whether we want to amend that law to apply it to American citizens who choose to become affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations, whether they should not also be deprived automatically of their citizenship, and therefore be deprived of rights that come with that citizenship when they are apprehended and charged with a terrorist act.

If ever a real WMD is used against us, such as a primitive nuclear weapon in a suitcase smuggled into Manhattan, look to Lieberman to demand we do massive roundups of tens of millions of suspicious folks in sight, opening wide the concentration camps. If a fizzled attempt to explode propane in a car in Times Square can drive Lieberman to summarily sacrifice centuries of this nation's devotion to the rule of law and protection of the individual, it wouldn't take much to send him into the dark world of totalitarian madness.

[G_j]

1. profound words of wisdom?

for stating a complete no-brainer?


sigh...

[bullwinkle428]

2. Classic case of broken clock being right twice a day.

[glowing]

3. This guy is no different than Tim McVeigh.. fortunately he wasn't as bright in the bomb

making dept. But he is a citizen; and should be treated as such.