[GPSCC-chat] NPR Shocker: Actual Journalism!

[Brian Good]

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/09/220586231/u-s-ambassador-susan-rice-makes-case-for-strikes-on-syria

(Sarcasm Alert)

Steve Inskeep was incredibly rude this morning to Samantha Power, the new 
American ambassador to the United Nations.   He actually had the gall to
ask her flat out:  "Would an American strike on Syria be legal?" 

Of course since Ms. Power has a degree from Harvard Law she put him in his 
place immediately with a long and heartfelt response that did not answer his 
silly question.  

But Mr. Inskeep can not take a hint, showing his unfitness for his post as a
journalist.  He insisted "You're saying that something needs to be done and 
it is time to go 
outside the legal system, outside the legal framework. You 
believe it is
 right to do something that is just simply not legal."

And of course Ms. Powers did not stoop to his level and address the irrelevant
question of legality.   No stinking badges needed!  

Ms. Power is married to Cass Sunstein, a Constitutional scholar and (until a 
year ago) Obama's Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs,  who achieved some notoriety when he very sensibly suggested that the 
government should combat conspiracy theorists by employing corps of internet 
posters to "enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space 
groups 
and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by 
raising doubts 
about their factual premises, causal logic or 
implications for political action."
 		 	   		  
 		 	   		  
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