Bonnie Erbe

Jonah Goldberg: Death Beats Irrelevance

January 16, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog 

Jonah Goldberg referring to my post on why Bush should be prosecuted:

Me: No, I didn't know Erbe was still alive either. Self-parody keeps you young, I suppose.

Death beats irrelevance. The uber-right apparently didn't notice that in the last election it lost.

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When I was a teenager I once asked my father why he faithfully read U.S. News & World Report. His answer was that it was the only news magazine that he trusted to deliver unbiased and in-depth coverage on important issues, especially politics. When I became an adult I purchased a subscription based solely on my wise father's words. He would roll over in his grave today if he knew the nonsense, half-truths, distortions and one-sided coverage his trusted magazine now publishes. Because of Erbe's irrational arguments that lack any common sense I have decided not to renew my subscription when it expires. I simply cannot take any more of this hipocritical, juvenile playground antics that lack any basis in fact.

Mark of MO 12:45PM January 21, 2009

Why is it that Bush's approval rating was the 2nd highest of any president in history when we started the war, but after people started dying, we want to prosecute him? Seems pretty extreme. Unfortunately the media and journalists like this one cause America to be like herded sheep in their views

crae of IA 2:31PM January 20, 2009

It is discouraging to see what type of "journalists" and opinion makers we have cultivated in this country. I would say to Ms Erbe that the financial crisis we have now cannot be attributed to Bush alone. The most dysfunctional Congress since the Civil War has played a prominent role in today's landscape but none of your shallow writings reflect this. Prosecuting the current administration would be a fool's errand and cost a huge sum of money we don't have to waste on assuaging your sensibilities about blame. The world is moving too fast and we have wolves at the door we have to attend to instead of putting Republicans in a legal hole and torturing them for your amusement at enormous taxpayer expense. It will serve no purpose. I think some of this post-election whining and melodrama in journalism is due to a post-traumatic disorder where the left wing now finds itself in a vast wasteland and no legitimate targets of opportunity - only postscripts to its former euphoric, agenda-driven postings. MSNBC is still trashing Palin for crying out loud. It's over. Get a grip and do your job and start scrutinizing the next administration and remember there is supposed to be integrity and a conspicuous absence of bias in what you deliver to readers.

Pinckney in Charleston of SC 10:02AM January 19, 2009

Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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