{"id":660,"date":"2004-05-08T01:24:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T08:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/05\/accused_of_treason_but_keep_it\/"},"modified":"2004-05-08T01:24:54","modified_gmt":"2004-05-08T08:24:54","slug":"accused_of_treason_but_keep_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/05\/accused_of_treason_but_keep_it.html","title":{"rendered":"ACCUSED OF TREASON, BUT KEEP IT UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

We get e-mails. Here is one:<\/P>
\n


\n

Dear Jan: I’ve felt like more than a fan with you and your writings in the past.
\nAnd I have been critical and judgmental of the tone and absolute leftness of your views. Now, in
\nthe past week, you’ve resorted to profanity and vilifying our President.
\n

<\/P>
\n

Someone sent me a memo stating that it would be unthinkable for the press to have subjected
\nPresident Roosevelt to the abject criticism of Pearl Harbor. The career bureaucrats, I believe,
\nmake it impossible for any administration to make real progress to adequately service the citizens
\nof our country, but the sitting president, according to today’s press, must take the hit. I’m sorry.
\nTruisms are lame excuses at best. <\/P>
\n

During WWI, you would have been prosecuted for your vilification of Mr. Bush. Probably
\nimprisoned. I think that’s where you and all the others belong. You have demonstrated that free
\nspeech has no limits, but you have committed TREASON in helping this country’s enemies. A
\npublic apology for your actions would be your next step, sir. <\/P>
\n

— Dr. Richard P. McGuir<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

<\/P>
\n

Dear Dr. McGuir: Treason? You’ve got to be kidding.<\/P>
\n

Here is another e-mail:<\/P>
\n


\n

Jan: I’ve been reading your blogs all week and I hope you keep going with
\nthem. People need to take a hard look at what’s happening here and I applaud your efforts to keep
\nus informed.
\n

<\/P>
\n

A disturbing thought occurs to me and that is that much of the world, including many in the
\nArab world, thinks that Americans are basically decent people — it’s just our government that’s
\nhorrible. <\/P>
\n

What is the world going to think if the majority of all of these basically decent American
\npeople rally behind this Administration and re-elect George W. Bush in November? What’s our
\nexcuse then? <\/P>
\n

The President talks about the recent scandal regarding the torture of prisoners as “a stain on
\nour country’s honor.” When is someone going to stand up and say that our honor was
\npermanently stained the day we invaded Iraq? It was stained forever the moment the first bomb
\nfell.<\/P>
\n

— Joan Daniels<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

<\/P>
\n

Dear Joan Daniels: Great point about why our Maximum Leader, aka “the little
\nfucker,” has to go.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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