DC World Exclusive: Venerable leftist weekly demands president’s impeachment over mass surveillance.
That's the headline, in a huge font, for an article in The Daily Caller -- no, I won't link to it. Tucker Carlson, editor of The Daily Caller and lazy, entitled heir to a huge family fortune, is one of the absolute worst sleazebags on the extreme right. This article is a perfect illustration of the worst of today's "journalism": You can't take anything at face value; trust no one; make sure you're not being lied to.
The article is published under a full-width banner with the words "The Nation" in the background and a picture of Obama in a full-on belly laugh. Here's the article in its entirety -- it's quite short:
In the pages of The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly in the country and the self-described “flagship of the left,” a former member of the House of Representatives has called for the impeachment of the president over revelations of massive government surveillance of ordinary citizens.Wow (you may think), what a damning indictment of President Obama (you may think) -- and from a solid left-wing source! The lefties have turned on their own (you may think) and are attacking the president (you may think)!
Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman of New York, who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate era, powerfully yet dispassionately lays out the case for the immediate impeachment of the president.
“Nothing less is necessary to protect our constitutional system and preserve our democracy,” she declares.
The last straw for the retired Congresswoman was the revelation that the president “directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans” (a number that is likely conservative).
“As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment,” writes Holtzman in her bombshell treatise. “A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law — and repeatedly violates the law — thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment and removal from office.”
The eloquent Harvard Law grad provides a devastating legal critique of the vast executive-branch scheme to log every phone call in the United States.
“It now appears that thousands of calls were monitored and that the information obtained may have been widely circulated among federal agencies,” Holtzman writes.
The skilled jurist also draws eerily ominous parallels between what’s happening right now and the actions of the corrupt Nixon administration.
“Among his other abuses of power, President Nixon ordered the FBI to conduct warrantless wiretaps of seventeen journalists and White House staffers,” Holtzman sagely explains. “In fact, the first illegal Nixon wiretap was of a reporter who, in 1969, revealed the secret bombing of Cambodia, a program that President Nixon wanted to hide from the American people and Congress.”
The president, Holtzman says, “has been guilty of such gross incompetence or reckless indifference to his obligation to execute the laws faithfully as to call into question whether he takes his oath seriously or is capable of doing so.”
Holtzman makes a remarkably unqualified argument against the president, leaving little doubt that The Nation is laying down strict principles, rather than engaging in some cheap situational attack that it would hypocritically abandon if, for example, the same abuses were being carried out by a president whose party and agenda the flagship left-wing magazine found more palatable.
To show just how serious she is about impeachment proceedings, the former House member concludes with expert guidance for Americans who want to see the president impeached.
“Drumming up public support means organizing rallies, spearheading letter-writing campaigns to newspapers, organizing petition drives, door-knocking in neighborhoods, handing out leaflets and deploying the full range of mobilizing tactics,” she writes.
“An energized public must in turn bear down on Congress. Constituents should request meetings with their Senators and Representatives to educate them on impeachment,” Holtzman concludes. They can also make their case through e-mail, letters and phone calls.”
At this juncture, The Daily Caller is not prepared to endorse the extreme measure Holtzman advises. Nevertheless, if you are, and if you would like to contact the Senators and Representatives who represent you to voice your views on impeachment, you can find their contact information here.
Solid news -- you heard it here first, at The Daily Caller!
Well, not quite.
Not a word in the article is untrue. Former Congresswoman Holtzman -- according to The Daily Caller an "eloquent Harvard Law grad" and "a skilled jurist" -- said all of those things, and she said them in a solid, mainstream left-wing publication.
Nevertheless, the article is a disgraceful distortion. It links to former Congresswoman Holtzman's article in The Nation where you can read the truth, but how many TDC readers are going to make the effort to verify the truth of Carlson's article? Unfortunately, not many.
For those who make the effort to pursue the link, the article in The Nation is entitled -- surprise, surprise! -- THE IMPEACHMENT OF GEORGE W. BUSH.
Yes, folks, this breathtaking piece of breaking news was published in The Nation on January 30, 2006. And it's not about Obama, Snowden, et cetera, at all; it's about W's illegal wiretaps.
And Tucker Carlson is a lying dirtbag whose opinion on anything and everything deserves to be summarily dismissed.
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