Doug's Dynamic Drivel

Ok Norm just me having fun – don’t beat me up Coffee is my water and Rum is my coffee so there! Stuff I found interesting today and which you should read because…well just because

• Leonard Pitts Jr: Walter Cronkite’s loyalty was, above all, to the truth

  A lot of stuff has been written about Walter since he died but no one has put it better than Leonard Pitts.
  

  That’s what all that “most trusted man in America” stuff boils down to: He was authoritative. You could depend on him to tell it like it was. And that’s why, on the rare occasion he did venture an opinion — he famously declared the war in Vietnam unwinnable — it carried weight. You knew he wasn’t shilling for one party or another. To the degree he was shilling for anything, it was simply, truth.

  Try to imagine saying that of Keith Olbermann, Steve Doocy, Sean Hannity, Chris Matthews, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck or any of the other spinners and grinners who have turned TV news into an infotainment complex where reporting bleeds seamlessly into fiction bleeds seamlessly into opinion and nobody tells it like it is, choosing instead to tell it as their cohort of an ideologically-balkanized nation wants it to be.

• Tad Daley: Apollo or Extinction

  Tad nails it on the head – we need to do manned exploration of space or, as a species, die.

• Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein : Single-payer national health care the way to go

  Stop the bait and switch over the public option now

• marijuana is “dangerous” and “has no medical benefit No help from America’s new Drug Czar
• A Step Too Far: Rep. Massa demands Fox News fire O’Reilly and Peters for comments about captured soldier

  and the pentagon is furious too –

  we can only hope

• George Will continues to lie about Global Climate Change

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