The Rank, Reeking Horror of Torturing Some Folks

[NanceGreggs]

86. Nothing has happened to me, Will.

I am still 100% against torture - despite the fact that a few months ago, you accused me of defending it on a thread here on DU. You didn't provide any basis for that accusation. There were no links to anything I'd said that could even remotely be construed as defending torture - you just made the accusation, and left it at that.

I am still the person who thinks a professional journalist should not take statements out of context, or edit what someone said, in order to make it appear that two very separate and distinct comments followed each other - thereby creating the agenda-driven illusion that two individual remarks were part and parcel of one stream of thought.

I am still the person who believes that quoting Obama out of context, and then insisting that "what he meant was" something he never said, is a FOX-News-worthy tack, and has no place in ethical journalism.

I am still the person who thinks that someone calling the president "a piece of shit used car salesman" - because THEY themselves didn't do their homework when assessing which insurance coverage was best suited to their family's needs - has seriously compromised his integrity, not only as a journalist of note, but as a thinking human being.

I am still the person who wonders how Obama "used" a severely and very visibly injured soldier as a "prop" to glorify war at his SOTU address - when in fact it would very obviously do just the opposite. If Obama wanted a "prop" to glorify combat, would he not have "used" a handsome young medal-covered soldier, instead of one who was so apparently severely injured as a result of his service? I am still trying to wrap my head around whatever logic you were trying to bring to the conversation.

I am still the person who doesn't trust anything that is said by newspapers, the mainstream print media, or TV "news" outlets. I instead rely on journalists I trust to give me the facts.

You were once one of those journalists. But given your tirades about POS used car salesmen, your insistence on "editing" Obama's statements rather than addressing them in full, and your penchant for commenting on "what Obama meant" as opposed to what Obama actually said, I've had to move you into the "not to be trusted" category.

DU was once a place of discussion among Democrats and like-minded people. It has become the Official Complaints Department for "disappointed, disgruntled Dems" - along with RW trolls who pose as "disappointed, disgruntled Dems". And you are very obviously "playing to the crowd" in place of reporting the facts, and commenting on their implications.

Bashing Obama is now what the majority of DU is all about. And you have decided to go along to get along, rather than alienate the "rec" givers who see ANY support of Obama as contrary to their agenda.

And that's just sad, all the way around.