« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: The Vice President's Fall from Grace  (Read 633 times)

Offline Hap

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3908
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« on: March 09, 2007, 02:34:52 PM »
Quite a compelling read.

It's not a superfical "bad Dick Cheney" story.  

Midway, the bit about Wyoming, from what I've picked up living here for a few years, is spot on.

All this sort of reminds me of the hippies is a very wierd way.  That is cranky idealists (regardless of what their ideals look like) can get so insular, turned in on themselves, that with the right set of events, it all gets very wrong within a decade or so.

Thinking of the neocons also, disaffected hawkish democrats.

Yes they existed before caricature politics became a very damaging art form helped by 24/7 tabloid news needing something to say to lure viewers and bamboozle advertisers.

Then there's the whole Hearst-like spooky side to it all.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1597226,00.html

There's the link.

The lesson I take away from it is it's not about knowing the most, or knowing the right thing to do, but if people are willing to submit themselves to the entire political process of checks and balances that characterize the American experiement.

Though I'm very much in favor of knowing the most, and knowing the right thing to do.  

Republic or Democracy.  Of course we're a bit of both.  And when the pedulum swings both sides have their weaknesses.

All the Best,

hap
Logged

Offline WhiteHawk

  • Parolee
  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1815
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2007, 03:01:37 PM »
Shocking.
Logged

Offline Mickey1992

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3362
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2007, 03:01:38 PM »
Good read.
Logged

Offline Eagler

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 18842
TIME
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2007, 04:32:31 PM »
I am sure there is no bias there at all ...
Logged
"Masters of the Air" Scenario - JG27


Intel Core i7-13700KF | GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Elite AX | 64GB G.Skill DDR5 | 16GB GIGABYTE RTX 4070 Ti Super | 850 watt ps | pimax Crystal Light | Warthog stick | TM1600 throttle | VKB Mk.V Rudder

storch

  • Guest
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2007, 05:19:04 PM »
if Time were to print that the sky is celestial blue I wouldn't believe it.
Logged

Offline Gunslinger

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 10084
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2007, 05:48:42 PM »
Seriously,

Am I the only one that doesn't drewl and caw over this administration that just thinks this story is a whole lot of hype and very little umph.  Nothing has been proven, just a bunch of assumption based conclusions that get a certain brand of people frothing at the mouth jumping for joy.

I really do not get it.  I don't see the connection.  I don't see the libby thing as grand evidence.  This is grasping at straws here for somthing that assumes to exist to begin with.

Do I think the VP is a great guy.....No.  I agree with many of the initial opinions of the link that he was the safe choice for Bush.  Do I think he's an evil man.....no.  Nothing leads me to that conclusion.
Logged

storch

  • Guest
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2007, 06:03:43 PM »
I'm ambivelent regarding the current administration.  I'm sure Time magazine is a nest of communists.
Logged

Offline Mark Luper

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1626
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2007, 06:26:41 PM »
I'm sitting here wondering just how much of the article to believe.

Mark
Logged
MarkAT

Keep the shiny side up!

Offline Ripsnort

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 27260
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2007, 06:35:11 PM »
Let's see, Michael Duffy, graduate of a liberal arts college, Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, writing for the Times....

Yeah, I see no partisan politics on his journalism.  :rofl
Logged

Offline Gunslinger

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 10084
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2007, 06:50:25 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Let's see, Michael Duffy, graduate of a liberal arts college, Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, writing for the Times....

Yeah, I see no partisan politics on his journalism.  :rofl


The writing itself is standard nowadays.  Create contraversy where there is none.  I happens on both sides.  Seriously I don't see the point to this story.
Logged

Offline Kieran

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 4119
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2007, 08:09:58 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Let's see, Michael Duffy, graduate of a liberal arts college, Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, writing for the Times....

Yeah, I see no partisan politics on his journalism.  :rofl


WTF?! Where would a guy go to journalism school, pray tell?

They don't have technical schools for journalism. Of course he went to a liberal arts college. That doesn't automatically assign bias to his writing. It'd be wiser to examine his body of work to determine bias.
Logged

Offline john9001

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 9453
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2007, 08:37:39 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Kieran
WTF?! Where would a guy go to journalism school, pray tell?

They don't have technical schools for journalism. Of course he went to a liberal arts college. That doesn't automatically assign bias to his writing. It'd be wiser to examine his body of work to determine bias.


98% of all journalists vote democrat.
Logged

Offline Shamus

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3583
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2007, 11:31:46 PM »
Well liberal arts has the word liberal in it, therefor all those schools are commie :), wonder what that bastion of socialism Hillsdale liberal arts college would have to say about that?

shamus
Logged
one of the cats

FSO Jagdgeschwader 11

Offline rpm

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 15661
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2007, 11:36:34 PM »
You have to understand, they think there is only 2 proper "journalists".
Logged
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Stay thirsty my friends.

Offline Gunslinger

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 10084
The Vice President's Fall from Grace
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2007, 11:53:34 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by rpm
You have to understand, they think there is only 2 proper "journalists".


Wow that's actually a compliment to them.  You realize that right?

PS  My friend you do realize that neither of them are journalist right?
Logged
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »