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Much Ado ...
"Much Ado .."
By Stanley Fish
New York Times
In
1952, when McCarthyism was at its height, Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas labeled the investigative techniques of the junior senator
from Wisconsin "guilt by association" (Adler v. Board of Education).
Douglas added that McCarthyite tactics were "repugnant to our society"
because, despite the absence of any overt wrongdoing, the pasts of
those attacked were "combed for signs of disloyalty" and for utterances
that might be read as "clues to dangerous thoughts."
More than a half century later, "McCarthyism" was joined in the
lexicon by "Swiftboating," the art of the smear campaign mounted with
the intention not of documenting a wrong, but of covering the victim
with slime enough to cast doubt on his or her integrity. Now, in 2008,
after a primary season increasingly marked by dirty pool and low blows,
"McCarthyism" and "Swiftboating" have come together in a particularly
lethal and despicable form. I refer to the startling revelation --
proclaimed from the housetops by both the Clinton and McCain campaigns
-- that Barack Obama ate dinner at William Ayers's house, served with
him on a board and was the honored guest at a reception he organized.
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Comments (12)
Do you think for one minute that CNN or MSNBC will discuss this? It makes me so angry that they keep pressing this and pressing it, when it's absolutely true what this guy says in this article. Should all the people who have ever been to Bill Ayers' home for any reason be rounded up and interrogated as to why they were there, how long they've known him, what did they know about him and when did they know it? All the hoopla surrounding this would lead us to believe exactly that. The problem is that Obama can't protest too much, or else he "doth protest too much" and it will only set the barking dogs to yapping even louder.
Damn these people who, like the Clintons and McCain, know exactly what they're doing and know for an absolute fact that they are wrong. They are without a doubt guilty of character assassination.
April 28, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have you ever heard of the Fair Use Doctrine? Nice cut and paste.
April 28, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Paste a brain in your skull, please.
April 28, 2008 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great post... Thanks!
April 28, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone who wants to get our gracious host, Josh and TPM in any trouble, simply recommend this post.
See the 3rd factor in assessing Fair Use
...the quantity or percentage of the original copyrighted work that has been imported into the new work. In general, the less that is used in relation to the whole, e.g., a few sentences of a text for a book review, the more likely that the sample will be considered fair use."
That does not mean cutting and pasting entire articles and therefore circumventint the advertisers that have paid good money to provide a forum for the content.
April 28, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, are you a lawyer?
I didn't know posting relevant information could be so lethal.
bug off.
April 28, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry Bionic. He's right. You can't post the entire article. I've clipped it and provided a link for interested readers.
Please, in the future, do not publish entire articles.
April 28, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually it can be lethal to this open forum. It is called copyright infringement. Look it up.
Now, lets see if SoyBoy can help shut TPM down by infringing on the NYTimes (today) and everyone elses copyrighted material (other days).
I hope not. This place is not our right. If you had been around for more than a couple of weeks here you would know how Josh has fought for the recognition for stories from this site. You would have read the front page entries about how TPM was not credited properly. But then again, you dont care about that do you?
April 28, 2008 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I only care about you. Now go fetch me a beer, baby.
April 28, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your credibility is sinking even faster, you nitwit.
April 28, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have more credibility than a Bosnian pantsuit that's so dirty, not only can it walk on it's own. It bowls!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjNxBQzHoM8
Opps. I meant can't bowl.
April 28, 2008 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, maybe Hillary will challenge me to a "bowl off" too.
As for you, rw, since you probably bowl about as well as your super "credible" candidate, I take it a bowl off between us just won't do.
But don't worry. As a consolation prize, I pronounce you grand champ of the "Brain off".competition.
Congrats champ!
April 28, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
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