I suspect that villa, in using the term “commentators,” was referring to people who actually have a public forum and a following in these matters, not some random anonymous folks on the internet.
I would say “No” to anonymous complaints. Anonymous would make spurious spitework complaints against innocent ones far too easy. If there are complaints filed against him, then great. It’s in the works.
Indeed. I would have thought anyone would have realized that is what commentators referred to. I will try to be more specific next time. What word can I use that better indicates I mean “people who comment on current events and comment in such a way that their commentary is broadcast to a wide range of people who listen to their commentary” as opposed to “anonymous people on an internet message board”?
The person who makes the complaint can be anyone. So, if I’m the lawyer and don’t want the judge to screw all my clients, I just tell my buddy the terrible things the judge has done He writes to the JCC that he’s heard some disturbing things about Judge Littlejohn and asks for someone to look into it.
Yes it is tacky. But I am sick and tired of the equivalency game. Whereby we are always told when we criticize FoxNews that MSNBC is as bad; or criticize Glen Beck to hear that Michael Moore is as bad.
They’re not. It’s complete bollocks. While the left can’t be overly proud of itself, the extent to which the right has debased legitimate political debate dwarfs any action by the left. It isn’t so much a plague on both your houses… It’s “Lary Lefty, you go and clean your room this instant,” and “Roger Rightie, put your hands in the air and stop forcibly sodomizing the neighbors’ bedridden grandmother.”
The guilt isn’t even close. Which is why I wanted figures on the left who are national, popular commentators and political leaders who would ask, for example, people to pray for the death of this judge. And apparently there aren’t any. What a surprise.
Do you not think that religious leaders advocating people pray for the death of Supreme Court justices were, you know, advocating that people pray for the death of Supreme Court justices?
I’m perfectly willing to state that, at the present time, some of the right-wing loonies that have media access are farther out than the left-wing loonies that have media access. And this proves what?
It proves that some of the right wing loonies with media access are further out than the left-wing loonies that have media access.
It suggests that the constant arguments of equivalence are patently false, and I would suggest exist only to prevent the right having to face up to the dangerous monster it has created, fed, and nurtured.
I would also suggest it is a bad idea to give a pass to the dangerous monster the left has created, fed and nurtured just because it is not quite as bad as the one on the right.
The We Kill Babies club can legitimately say that the We Kill and Eat Babies club is crazier than they are, but it does not mean people should flock to them as the better alternative.
Not when one is told that the only way to deal with the more dangerous side is to place all of your trust (and power) into the not-quite-as-dangerous side.
I just don’t like the mindset of “we don’t have to fix our side, because the other is worse” any more than Villa seems to like “we don’t have to fix our side because the other is just as bad”.