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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bob Schieffer destroys himself. Can't remember history. Pimps ad hominem illogic. [View all]
Bob Schieffer compared the NSA leaker to Rosa Parks and MLK Jr. in a disgusting display of stupidity Sunday.
The comparisons are ridiculous on their face and Schieffer should be embarrassed to use dead African American heroes as props in his 'kill the messenger' logical fallacies. But he isn't. Parks and King spoke out and found non-violent ways to oppose racism -- for their actions they became the targets of massive character assassination.
Some very prolific DU posters have spent the last week jumping into every thread to say the same things over and over. To some the NSA revelations are all about the person who started the revelations and, the logic (or lack of) seems to go: if the leaker is not a hero then there is no need to look at what was leaked. Now the ammo for character assassination is running out and more people (Congress critters and ex CIA/NSA types) are confirming the worst of the leaks -- that all your phone calls are recorded and that thousands of private sector analysts have the power to review anyone's communication without much supervision or legal process.
But back to Schieffer -- does Schieffer not recall that both Parks And King were the targets of the same kind of character assassination he is peddling now? Rosa Parks did not initially offer up to reporters that fact that she was connected to the NAACP so it would seem the Schieffers and little wolf packs of 1955 would be calling her "a liar." It was later revealed that another woman had done the same thing 9 months earlier and Parks was deemed more appropriate to be the face of the movement to desegregate buses -- more fodder for the ad hominems to attack her as "a phony" or perhaps "a narcissist". King was hounded by Hoover, linked to communism, racially maligned, and he dressed well so surely...King was a narcissist.
After yesterday's statement I have little doubt that Schieffer would have been among the hordes jumping at a chance to change the subject from institutionalized racism to King and Parks alleged "narcissism" and "lies."
Schieffer could have chosen other historical figures -- Ellsberg, Bradley Manning, even Paul Revere (the famous curfew violator) but that he chose to equate a man he considers a traitor with 2 beloved Civil Rights figures who were also the targets of character assassination is very revealing.
Bob Schieffer has no shame.