Frank Rich

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Where Farts Come From “ The State of the Union Is Comatose By FRANK RICH Published: January 30, 2010 HANDS down, the State of the Union’s big moment was Barack Obama’s direct hit on the delicate sensibilities of the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The president was right to blast the 5-to-4 decision giving corporate interests an even greater stranglehold over a government they already regard as a partially owned onshore subsidiary. How satisfying it was to watch him provoke Alito into a “You lie!” snit. Here was a fight we could believe in. ” I think I found the prollem. Notice that the The New York Times Newsroom Navigator  does not list among it's resources The New York Times.  That's prolly why Rich missed Supreme Court and the law reporter Linda Greenhouse's  au contraire explanation last week.  Some quotage: “ This time, Justice Alito shook his head as if to rebut the president’s characterization of the Citizens United decision, and seemed to mouth the words “not true.” Indeed, Mr. Obama’s description of the holding of the case was imprecise. He said the court had “reversed a century of law.” The law that Congress enacted in the populist days of the early 20th century prohibited direct corporate contributions to political campaigns. That law was not at issue in the Citizens United case, and is still on the books. Rather, the court struck down a more complicated statute that barred corporations and unions from spending money directly from their treasuries — as opposed to their political action committees — on television advertising to urge a vote for or against a federal candidate in the period immediately before the election. ” A  bit more hubris from Rich was him saying  "John McCain epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition."  Tsk-tsk.  There is no shortage of unpatriotic peeps in this nation, but I don't think refusing to roll over for Obama's legislative initiatives qualifies.  When well known Americans travel overseas, and call our President guilty of war crimes, that's unpatriotic.  When a newspaper discloses" the existence of a program to discover planned Al Qaeda terrorist operations on U.S. soil," thats unpatriotic treasonous.  Frank Rich is guilty of being Olbermann-istic, a capital crime in the journalism bidness.