I did not say, NOR did I imply in any way shape or form that Foley is sick because he is gay. I would feel the same way if he had been heterosexual and hitting on 16 year old young ladies. If what he did wasn’t criminal, my apologies for saying it was…it sounds criminal to me.
We aren’t talking about a man having an affair with a woman in her mid-twenties who by her own admission “came on to him”…we are talking about a man who solicited sex from 16 year old boys. I doubt that all of them, if any, had indicated that they would welcome this kind of attention.
All of which is beside the point. My main objection is toward Hastert “turning a blind eye” to the problem once he became aware of it.
But then I think Voyager covered most of what I’d want to say in response to your post.
Man, I’m going to sound like the odd one out here.
I like that he speaks out. I like the fire and all that. I agree with what he says, and he tends to say it beautifully. But the conscious and overt self-comparison to Murrow kind of chaps my hide, actually. Why can’t he be a conscientious and outspoken and opinionated journalist without trying to be a man popular fifty years ago? Emulate him, sure, but doing it so obviously and stealing his sign-off line? It just seems sort of cheap to me.
He just strikes me as a man who has a great opinion of himself, who sees it as self-evident that he’s the next Murrow. I like him fine, but something just rubs me the wrong way.
Actually, rjung, Keith has freely admitted that he has quite an ego. He says he tries not to let it get TOO out of hand-he mostly manages to joke about it.
Which is very cool and I like his words just fine, but it’s rather at odds with his “Good night and good luck” sign-off, isn’t it? If he doesn’t consider himself Murrow, Jr. then why does he have such a blatantly Murrow signoff? Surely he could compose his own.
That said, again, it does warm the cockles of my heart to see someone speaking out with eloquence and candor. I rarely see that kind of eloquence from the other side, or at least I rarely see it without picking apart every single statement with the general “But you KNOW this is a lie!” and “This is a gross oversimplification” and so on. I see that same kind of thing in leftist arguments, but it’s rarer for me to find a right-wing person for whom I can say “I disagree with you, but at least you’re making a cogent argument.”
Also, unlike SOME others coughBilloRushcough, when he makes a mistake, he admits it and appologizes, rather than trying to spin it away, or lie and say it never happened.
Which is VERY refreshing, no matter WHAT the message that person was sending. I mean, even if I don’t agree with a person’s position, if he/she is willing to admit they were wrong? They go up in my estimation.
Not that they care, of course. A person who is honestly willing to admit they were wrong is a person who is secure in their own skin. I like that in a person.
But then, he often ends promos with “Be there. Aloha.” which is how Jack Lord used to end promos for Hawaii Five-O. Mebbe he just likes old siggn-offs.