Lucky for some of you that honesty and logic is not one of Celeste’s requirements for commenting.

The U.S. attorneys are political appointees. On one hand, you excuse Clinton’s mass firing (actually, unlike any previous administration’s) saying that it’s okay to suit an “administration’s political leanings.” Then, you say that Bush’s removal of a few U.S. Attorneys is “an attempt to politicize the legal process….” Either both are “alarming” or neither are.

I sure don’t see how you can excuse Clinton’s one-day firings of everyone over Bush’s later firings of just some of his own appointees. I suppose that you think that a hiring and firing of the U.S. Attorney General is wrong if based on politics–which it is always. You want it both ways to suit you.

And, finally, there is no problem with checks and balances or constitutional law as you claim, except maybe Congressional interference into a President’s hiring for its purely political reasons.

To remind you of one more piece of information from the link that I provided:

The reason for firing these U.S. attorneys seems to be that they were reticent in pursuing criminal investigations and prosecutions of Democrats for voter fraud. It seems to me that somewhere along the line the media would be somewhat interested in those allegations of fraud at the polling place. Ahhhh … but then it’s Democrat voter fraud we’re talking about, isn’t it?

One more thing. Do you know who is running the investigation in the House? California Democrat Linda Sanchez is the chairman of the House subcommittee looking into the matter. Her sister, Loretta, was elected with the help of massive Democrat voter fraud in Orange County, California.

So, the Republicans’ “political leanings” include honest elections. No wonder the Democrats and liberal media oppose them.

If your students need to learn any lessons, it’s that the coverage of this story, whether by CBS, CNN, the NYT, or other left-wing media, is deceitful and fraught with its own brand of politics–which “should be alarming to us all.” Students need to learn that journalists cannot be considered professional until they have a uniform code of ethics, and they don’t. Make that a term project.

P.S. How funny that rlc and you recognize the value of blogs today when the left-wing earlier was attacking blogs for raising stories that we would otherwise never hear, such as uncovering photo-shopped pictures from Beirut and John Kerry’s claims of being in Cambodia, his war wounds, and his on-going efusal to fully open his military records.

At Marc Cooper’s site on a particular post, you and others argued that blogs did not represent journalism in any form. Has that changed, too, to suit the left-wing purpose?