swfong

After Sarah Palin's statement about the Tucson shooting and her role in the matter, I, for the most part, agree with her statements about debate and responsibility. Jared Loughner chose to attack Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and kill six people for reasons we will never truly understand. So Sarah Palin could not be directly responsible for this. I would think video game "Call Of Duty" or movie "Red" would have influenced a spree killer than a simple graphic which put bullseyes twenty Congresspeople for the 2010 election. However, Palin's statement, which begins as a defense of free speech and open debate, quickly turns into a pathetic attempt at the "best defense is a good offense". Palin's post-campaign rhetoric has been exactly that: she will respond any criticism with an infuriating attack, knowing that she is has no one to answer to for her irresponsible comments. Her base of extreme right wing supporters love her unwaveringly, no politician...

I have heard that the two competing news channels are two sides of the same hyperbolic coin, but not tonight. I listened to Olbermann, who over the weekend already " apologized for and repudiated any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. " He decided to cancel a very popular segment, World's Worst Persons In The World. It is a biting satire, focusing on heinous and obnoxious deeds of daily newsmakers, but mostly politicians and media members. He is planning on bringing it back, but under a different name, one less polarizing. On my quick sojourns to Fox News, it seems like business as usual. O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg spoke about " The merchants of hate who are peddling this stuff should be accountable ", then brought out their usual enemies list of the New York Times, NBC News, and Paul Krugman, a Princeton professor who is a regular guest on MSNBC. Probably the worst part of this segment was O'Reilly exp...