tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post116239573704405415..comments2024-03-28T14:03:55.912-04:00Comments on Start Making Sense: Reporting without contextDaniel Shavirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710628584922961682noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post-1162415549877754932006-11-01T16:12:00.000-05:002006-11-01T16:12:00.000-05:00Several problems with this post: First, is this y...Several problems with this post: First, is this your idea of reporting a story 'straight up'? <BR/><BR/><I>"President Bush last night accused Sen. John F. Kerry of disparaging U.S. troops in Iraq, echoing the 2004 strategy of ridiculing the Massachusetts senator to raise anew questions about Democratic leaders and their commitment to the troops. The highly coordinated White House effort came as Republicans sought to shift the focus away from an unpopular war and GOP scandals that are putting their congressional majorities at risk."</I><BR/><BR/>No editorializing there!<BR/><BR/>Secondly, Kerry has apologized for the botched joke and that may be plausible. However, you aren't defending the fact he misspoke in public. You are defending what he literally said. Paraphrased, 'Stupid people and slackers are in Iraq'. I'm sure you 'support the troops' though.<BR/><BR/>Thirdly, even if Kerry is given the benefit of the doubt. How is it that he and the President attend the same university, perform roughly the same academically (Kerry was actually a grade-point or two worse)and Bush is Kerry's intelectual inferior?<BR/><BR/>Finally, maybe you should look for some news coming from your own State's Senator. Her take on Kerry's statement? <I>"What Senator Kerry said was inappropriate"</I> Yet there is no comment from you on whether she is gleeful, desperate or part of the highly coordinated White House effort.<BR/><BR/>Certainly much of this is not put in its proper perspective but that is no fault of the Bush administration. Mainly, that is the fault of bloggers like you.<BR/><BR/>Hopefully, your teaching is not as incoherent as your political commentary or else there is no hope for the trial lawyers of the future!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com