Bob Herbert Does the Auldephart Thing
This is
pretty funny:
Only about half of America's high school students think newspapers should be allowed to publish freely, without government approval of their stories. And a third say the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment go "too far."
Well, Bob, maybe if they were taught about John Peter Zenger instead of learning how to put condoms on a banana...
But maybe we shouldn't be so hard on the youngsters. After all, they've been set a terrible example by a presidential administration that has left no doubt about its contempt for a number of our supposedly most cherished constitutional guarantees.
That's the hoariest cliche in the pundit business. "But how can we blame teens for doing X when the President does Y? It wasn't that impressive when X was oral sex and Y was oral sex with an intern, even though there might be a reasonable connection. But blaming the conditions facing prisoners at Guantanamo (which is where Herbert is headed) for the ignorance of high school seniors is absurd.
He goes on and on about our constitutional guarantees, without any apparent realization that these people are not American citizens or even on American soil.
