Legal, but not exactly likable [spying article by Bush apologist]

[antigop]

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/13492930.htm

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This season of peace finds Americans debating issues of war. Did President Bush's decisions to direct the National Security Agency to conduct electronic surveillance without judicial review violate U.S. laws and/or the Constitution?
Yes and probably not, respectively.
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Note he references John Yoo.

[Demit]

1. The author of that essay is "president of General Building Maintenance"

How bizarre.

[politicaholic]

2. That's not a journalistic or political credential, that's a janitor...

how pathetic.

[Mabus]

3. but he's a conservative so it's okay

Must have gone to the same "journalism school" that Gannon attended.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CLUELESS CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST

...and then we have a building maintenance executive weighing in on video game violence in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (registration required). The author of the piece, Don Erler, doubles as a conservative columnist for the Star-Telegram and is identified below his column as president of General Building Maintenance, which apparently qualifies him to write an opinion piece on video game issues. Or maybe not.

To support his position, which pretty much seems to be that video games are evil, Erler churns up some old, controversial sources like Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and some new, controversial sources like Snoop Dogg . While I take much disagreement with Grossman's well-known views on video games, that's a topic for another time. What is far more confusing is Erler's reference to Snoop Dogg "cleaning up his act." Wasn't Sir Snoop in one of those sleazy Girls Gone Wild videos not so long ago? Why does Erler hold him up as a model parent?

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Complete censorship of destructive video games, music videos and music would be fine with me, but that is a non-starter in our society obsessed with self-expression and self-indulgence.

Maybe he would like to arrange a book burning session too. While I'm sure he is a whiz at keeping the floors waxed, clueless commentary like Erler's - especially when it appears in a major newspaper - just obscures the real issues.

source: http://www.livejournal.com/users/gamepolitics/2005/03/30/