Can't Make Murchison Talk? What's That He's Doing?
Barack Obama called for a national dialog on race. William Murchison of the Dallas Blog is stubbornly having none of it. He demostrates this by... writing a column about a dialog on race. There's a delicious irony in William Murchison publicly doing exactly what he insists no one can make him do.
Murchison faults "liberals" for not wanting real dialog, only "a microphone and an audience." Murchison makes this criticism in a column on Dallas Blog, where he himself conveniently doesn't have to see or hear any differing viewpoints. More irony.
William Murchison, other opinion writers, and their readers are all, in fact, having that dialog, whether or not William Murchison wants to admit it or not. Thank you, Barack Obama ... and even William Murchison, too. It's a conversation long overdue.
Mark Davis Thinks Reporters Want Soldiers to Die
Mark Davis accuses reporters of wanting American soldiers to die in Iraq in his column in The Dallas Morning News. His evidence? ABC's decision to run a list of names of the dead during its nightly newscast. This is reported by Michael Landauer on the News' Opinion blog. My questions: Why does the Dallas Morning News give Mark Davis a column? Are there editors who aren't sickened by his offensive statements? Or are there editors who think offensive, sickening opinions deserve equal time on the pages of the News? If so, who is the left-wing demagogue that Mark Davis supposedly balances?
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