IOW, why the small-minded need to piss on someone else’s parade?

Do I really need to remind you what happens when the wealthy and powerful influnce the judical process…Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick, Michael Skakel, O.J. Simpson.

http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

For the record, I agree on the childishness of those who chose to respond by making fun of your last name. What maroons. ::grin::

Rick - It is admirable that you are sticking up for your brother, but his editorial was ill conceived and reflected poorly on him. Calls for him to be fired are just as ill-conceived.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003571876

It’s tragic.

You are delusional if you think the Marxists who control our media will EVER reform. They are staunch ideologues and religious fanatics; they may not be willing to sacrifice their lives for their religion (Marxism, leftism, multiculturalism — whatever you want to call it) but they would sacrifice their jobs and their wealth for it. The network news went from 52 million viewers in 1980 to 22 million now, newspaper circulation is in freefall (with the conservative NY Post being the BIG exception) and to read the leftist media elite discuss this is to read arrogance and cluelessness at its peak. It’s either the fault of technology, lack of diversity (in other words, they’re not left-wing enough) or just those evil KKK Nazi Rethuglicans who want racist news to digest. They don’t get it and never, ever will.

They would rather go out of business than to ever, ever:

a) Give respectful voice to conservatives, and
b) Admit their leftist religion is wrong.

If 9/11 did not wake these people up, nothing will. If anything, they have become even more fanatically left-wing, and even more nasty, intolerant and repressive since then.

If a Democrat is elected to the White House in ‘08, and they retain control of Congress, you can be sure that the DNC/MSM complex will pass legislation to utterly crush any conservative media in this country — the Fairness Doctrine, hate speech laws (applied so that only rightists violate them, of course), and other pretexts for withholding FCC licenses to non-left-wing media outlets.

We will become like the EU at best, and like the USSR at worst.

And sad to say Rick, based on his post about the Dukies, your brother Terry will be cheering on all this repression.

I’m glad because it’s another reason to distrust the establishment media. They will continue to bleed readers and viewers so long as Terry’s opinion is percieved to be dominant. There will be no reform of the overwhelming bias of the media giants until it costs them enough to crate a demand for reform.

I cannot say it is harmless because the Duke 3 spent a year fighting a totallly political charge that was supported by the media, even when it became obvious that it was political. That is unacceptable.

I hope ABC keeps Terry and I hope the continue to lose viewers until they realize that comments like his make a lot of people look for alternative news sources.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/q/

Notice nobody there says anything near as asinine and casually vicious as Terry Moran.

What your brother had to say may not have been very tactful, but it is what a lot of people have been thinking. There mare a lot of us out there who struggled to put ourselves through college, we never had the opportunities and never will have the opportunities those privileged elite at Duke have. So we don’t feel particularly bad for those Duke pretty boys. Hell there are quite a few of us who aren’t sure even now that the power and money behind the parents didn’t just make all the evidence go away. Kudos’ to your brother for having the guts to say what so many others just thought.

http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834