1 On Jul 2, 08:32 pm, Tryan Hartill wrote:

A comment by Stand Strong pretty much sums it up

Everyone here is pointing fingers at the NYT for this article on the homes of Rumsfeld and Cheney, as if it’s breaking news that nobody ever knew before.
When presented with the facts, the two main responses are A) the NYT is attempting to motivate a sinister assassination plot against two of our leaders and B) since A really isn’t holding much water with anyone, the media shouldn’t print this information since it’s discourteous to make such a bold invasion into anybody’s, let alone a politican’s, personal life.
And as argument A continues, and we dig deeper, we learn more about the meaning behind it. The NYT, and the left of course, are co-conspirators in some vast ideological war upon their own country, seeking to overthrow both the current adminstration, as well as all of it’s supporters. Heck, we might as well strap suicide vests to ourselves and start trampsing over to the nearest mega-church and blow ourselves up, just to show we won’t stand for your religion-based, ideological attempts at, well…apparently, doing the same thing we’re trying to do, too. Strip you of any power whatsoever, usurp complete dominance over this country, and drive out any beliefs you hold dear to yourself by imposing our own beliefs back onto you.
I mean, face it…isn’t that what we’re both trying to do now? Massively crush the opposition since we both feel the other is 100% wrong, all of the time? You might say no, but overall, your politics say yes, yes, yes. Just look at the rhetoric. Traitor, anti-American, aiding the enemy, becoming the enemy. And well, what do we all do to our enemies?
All together now! That’s right, we crush them. We beat them, we kill them, we destroy them. Cuz gosh darnit, that’s the American way!
Point B, about protecting people’s personal lives, was raising the notion that since A didn’t work out to well, and B at least sounds a little less harsh, well…perhaps someone ought to hold you to the idea that you take seriously invasions of people’s privacy.
And if you do, at least hold the idea true at all times, not simly when it’s your politician, or your blogger who’s been outed, or otherwise had personal information exposed. Extend it to everyone who’s subject to media scrutiny. If you object to the posting of Rumsfeld’s and Cheney’s residential information, based on the premise that you feel it’s a discourteous and impolite invasion of privacy, then why would you not feel the exact same way towards bloggers, actors, musicians, artists, activists, etc?
Yet from the lack of any genuine response to actually take interest in the idea, which I didn’t expect anyway, I see clearly that nobody took the idea of working together to try to promote some additional forms of protection of privacy seriously. This tells me you’re either hypocrites, or simply see things one-sidedly in that, since it was Rumsfeld and Cheney whose information was published, you’re angry and the Times is at fault.
Yet if tomorrow, the Times runs an identical story on The Clintons, would you care and display as much outrage for that publication? How would you respond? What, because they’re currently not in the White House or otherwise taking part in running the show, it’s no big deal that their personal info was published since the terrorists won’t come after them?
Or is it because they’re liberal, the terrorists actually like them and wouldn’t want to harm them?
Seems to run against the idea that the terrorists want to kill all Americans, especially when high prominence targets make for great propaganda for those who commit such acts.
When I first read this ridiculous nonsense here yesterday morning, I thought it was hilarious. Almost thought it was satire. But as I read through the comments, I saw, once again, what lies beneath the surface of what I can only perceive as the mainstream conservative mindset.
The media is bad because it has a liberal agenda and is out to destroy this administration. So what does that make them? The enemy. An enemy on par with terrorists, and of course, your token liberal traitor too…...