Jenson's Bile

In an effort to be bipartisan on this site I have had both Ann Coulter and Molly Ivins linked on my side bar. The Molly Ivins link previously went to the Star-Telegram but I am looking for another link to her now. This op-ed is so disgusting and reminiscent of previous media lies that cost American lives in battle, that I have no interest in being linked to that paper any more. It's just too maliciously dishonest for me to stomach.

"The United States has lost the war in Iraq, and that's a good thing. I don't mean that the loss of American and Iraqi lives is to be celebrated. The death and destruction are numbingly tragic, and the suffering in Iraq is hard for most of us in the United States to comprehend. The tragedy is compounded because these deaths haven't protected Americans or brought freedom to Iraqis. They have come in the quest to extend the American empire in this "new American century." So, as a U.S. citizen, I welcome the U.S. defeat for a simple reason: It isn't the defeat of the United States -- its people or their ideals -- but of that empire. And it's essential that the American empire be defeated and dismantled."

- Robert Jensen, Dallas Star-Telegram. Also up on AndrewSullivan.com

My reply:

I will never again read or purchase your paper. That you gave a forum to such a dishonest advocate of cowardice I will never understand. The Jensons of the world - those but casually aware and fashionably aloof to the fact that the very liberal freedoms they claim to hold sacred are protected by good men and women who struggle courageously every day far from their loved ones - these are the worst, most fallen angels of our nature. Jenson's premise betrays the leadership of Kennedy and FDR and cowers in direct conflict with the journalistic integrity of Edward R. Murrow. I pity the students of such a vain, unintellectual professor so untethered to reality and objectivity that he would commit such self-absorbed bile to print, and I pity the residents of Dallas and fans of S-T that must obtain their read on the world from such a undiscerning and morally vacuous news source. Apologies to Ms. Ivins, but I will find her wit elsewhere.


I'm probably over reacting but this just completely incensed me.