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Good Riddance To The Gingrichites
See George, politicians are always promising things but when you promise to be saints, to restore honor to government, to uphold family values, to be honest and then go to such inordinate extremes the other way, well, it's just kind of hypocritical.
It's even more hypocritical when one postures that he is in favor of all these "moral vlaues" but that self-same person knee-jerkingly defends the scroundrels who have broken virtually every promise, and more, that they made.
There's nothing wrong with defending one's principles but this continued defence of these morons is unconscionable.
I disagree with the reporter. His job is and was to point up the obvious. In that he, and the media at large, failed miserably in their duty.
Has anyone ever see "Hardtalk" on the BBC. The gentleman who moderates the show doesn't let the politicians/bureaucrats slmie their way out of the very question he asks. He presses them, he demands honesty, he keeps to the issues at hand.
Compare that with the US media, guys like Tim Russert, even George S, who regularly lob softball questions and then let the politicians spin them any old way they want. Most are worse; they actively connive to mislead, they've provided and still provide a platform where the lies of the day can, because they appear on TV, be given a sheen of honesty, when they are anything but.