Okay, well that is
enlightening.
It is discouraging,
isn’t it, the current political theater?
Take the current
debate on immigration. Let’s just enter a reporter’s mindset for a moment and
say, hey, maybe there is something to the story … . Rather than be comfortable
with the he said, she said fight of middle school playground bravado, consider
the account of a solid reporter like Mattathias Schwartz, who wrote “The Human
Wall” cover story for New York magazine, Jan. 7-20, 2019.
Or here’s
something I encountered that’s, well, a little more “past” than January 2019,
in terms of keeping the fire to the feet of what looks like a compromised political
leader:
“All acts of the
party – all things that explain or throw light on these acts, -- all the acts
of others relative to the affair, that come to his knowledge, and may influence
him, -- his friendships and enmities, his promises, his threats, the truth of
his discourse, the falsehood of his apologies, pretences, and explanations, his
looks, his speech, his silence where he was called on to speak, everything
which tends to establish the connection between all these particulars, -- every
circumstance, precedent, concomitant, and subsequent, become parts of
circumstantial evidence.”
This from Edmund
Burke’s 1794 report for Britain’s House of Commons on the impeachment of Warren
Hastings, the governor-general of Bengal.
If only, right?
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