The Titanic has hit an iceberg . Judith Miller and her lawyers, in concocting this self-serving excercise in elision and obfuscation, and the editors of the New York Times , in delivering it to their readers, have sent a clear message to the broader public: find a life raft, quick. A newspaper has no higher obligation to its readers than the timely reporting of the truth. The New York Times just officially said goodbye to all that. Whether we look at Miller's hiding behing her notes, her hiding of her notes, her obfuscation of her sources even as she purported to reveal one, or that misspelled name... Valerie Flame ...written on a note pad, but, essentially, according to Miller, signifying nothing ...there could hardly be a more sordid or less satisfying outcome to the "paper of record" coming clean. If this is the best they have to offer, and indeed, that seems to be the case, their readers shouldn't be the only ones looking to the life boats. "the notes...
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If we could get local people and politicians to build schools, hospitals and city's that work maybe we could get the red states to follow us. We would be leading them somewhere they want to go.
As long as democrats have to fight their liberal democratic elected officials constantly to do what they said they would, we're in no position to offer solutions for others.
Why is the blogosphere so afraid of local issues? Seems like fixing the Oakland schools would make more real connections and leaders than a conference.
You have insight into Oakland. It's less grand than this other stuff but not less important.