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We Never
Called the Globe ‘Stupid’ . . . Before
March
5, 2001
Although
we disagree with the Boston Globe on almost everything, we never
called them “stupid” until last Saturday when we saw the lead
story with the headline: Carter, Ford Urged Pardons.
Whoever
was in charge last Friday night is stupid to believe this will
fly with anyone. It’s
embarrassing. It’s such blatant propaganda for Bill and Hillary
Clinton that everyone will see it for what it is.
If
the Globe wishes to be totally partisan, that is their right.
But this is just too obvious to make it much fun for us. We only
feel sorry for them.
However,
a person who is just walking by a newsstand or seeing a paper
on their neighbor’s table will think from the headline that both
Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford are somehow involved in Clinton’s
scandal. That’s what the Globe wants you to think. They want to
confuse the issue in everyone’s mind so that it will just fade
away as all Clinton scandals have.
The
paper’s first paragraph continued the stratagem, “Among the many
people who urged Bill Clinton to grant pardons, two advocates
stand out for their extraordinary access and influence: the former
presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.”
Then
you learn in the second breathless paragraph that Carter lobbied
for a pardon for Patty Hearst when he saw Clinton last summer
at a gathering in Georgia and after
Carter had sent the request through the regular channels at the
Justice Department.
All
of which raises the obvious retort, “So what?”
Everyone
hopes that all former Presidents discuss many issues and many
topics among themselves. So why does this become front-page news? Is the Globe implying that Jimmy Carter
received money for this? If that is the message, they will have
a hard time because almost no one will believe it. Later they
admit that he didn’t receive money. But if not, what is the point
of the story?
As
for Jerry Ford, he advocated a pardon last summer for former Democratic
Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who is a longtime friend of Ford
and served in the House of Representatives with him.
The
Globe news story (editorial) complained that these two pardons
“aren’t undergoing the same level of scrutiny as the Rich pardon.”
Well,
we certainly hope not! Who would waste time on that? It doesn’t
take any brains to see the difference between what Bill and Hillary
Clinton did in all of these many pardons and the ordinary process
of trying to help people you think are deserving.
How
can a President ever pardon anyone if someone doesn’t talk to
him about it?
It’s
the ordinary process of running a country as opposed to those
who have paid money to buy a President’s favor.
Either the Friday night editors
at the Globe are too stupid to understand that or they’re too stupid
to think that we can’t see the difference. |
