TheMillerCircle.org

Juan Cole has made a plea to insure that known liars and convicted felons should not be given space on broadcast news media for discussing political issues.  Democrats.com has taken him up on it and posted a listing of those that should not be allowed access time for discussing policies though the main media outlets.  It is a long list, and includes White House people that lied us into the war in Iraq, but it also includes those that have been convicted for perjury such as Bill Clinton. On the one hand, I can see the advantage of not treating many of these people as coequals for political issue discussions, but on the other, I wonder how much effort will be put in to indicting politicians on trumped up charges to render their visibility to zero. Yet, there is something pleasant about thinking that Karl Rove won’t be on Fox news anymore.  But, is Bill Clinton co-equal to Tom Delay? Hasn’t Bill Clinton’s political objectives been just the opposite to those of Carl Rove or Tom Delay?  This is one of those issues where you would hope that the news broadcast media would self-regulate and keep these people off the air waves through publicly accepted ethical standards, rather than apply some loose ratings criteria, which is what seems to be the rule they follow now. I would prefer to see the distinction made along the lines of those that have attempted to diminish our national interests vs those that have promoted them. Of course, I could be the decider! If so, we would see and hear from a lot fewer Bushie/neocon subhumans.