{"id":1571,"date":"2007-07-16T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T15:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/07\/impeach_now\/"},"modified":"2007-07-16T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T15:52:42","slug":"impeach_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/07\/impeach_now.html","title":{"rendered":"Impeach Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never thought I could listen to Bruce Fein without throwing a brick at him. But, man! The nerdie rightwing legal beagle is worth hearing on why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2007\/01\/time_for_him_to.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>President With His Head Up His Ass<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2007\/04\/welcome_back_bi.html#more\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Attack Dog<\/strong><\/font><\/a> must be impeached. Yes, <i>must<\/i>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeliberal.com\/archives\/002664.html\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"BRUCE FEIN, Constitutional scholar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07132007\/images\/fein.jpg\" width=180 align=right border=0 \/><\/a> Why would I believe Fein on impeachment now when I didn&#8217;t believe him when he went after Bill Clinton? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07132007\/impeachment.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>He wrote<\/strong><\/font><\/a> the first article of impeachment against Clinton.) Because in this instance, contrary to his specious puritanical reaction to a sex scandal, Fein makes a be-yooo-tifully justifiable case against the two of leaders of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>B<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>n<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>n<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>R<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>e<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>p<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>u<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>b<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>l<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>i<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>c<\/strong><\/font><\/a>.<br \/>\nHe did it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/index-flash.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399><i>Bill Moyers Journal<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/a> the other day, as he did <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.com\/id\/2169292\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>earlier on <i>Slate<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/a> against the Attack Dog alone. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07132007\/profile.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>watch Fein do it<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Click &#8220;watch video&#8221; to see the segment. He makes the case, along with leftie John Nichols. (The &#8216;twain doth sometimes meet.) If you prefer to read what they said, click &#8220;read transcript.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07132007\/watch.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#0033399>video of Moyers&#8217; intro<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. I hope it&#8217;s a sign of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2007\/06\/shorthand.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>things to come<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, though our spineless pols make it doubtful.<br \/>\nCherry-picking is kosher &#8212; yes it is.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jan-herman\/impeach-now_b_56490.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>(Crossposted at HuffPo)<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never thought I could listen to Bruce Fein without throwing a brick at him. But, man! The nerdie rightwing legal beagle is worth hearing on why the Attack Dog must be impeached. Yes, must. He wrote the first article of impeachment against Clinton.) Because in this instance, contrary to his specious puritanical reaction to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-pl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}