Skimmity Ride 'Round Town

Roger Simon is an enjoyable read for a view that takes a step back and ponders the bigger picture.

Roger notes how the truth has become dispensable in this season of desperation for The Left.

You know this particular attempt by The New York Times and CBS to flog this low-rent partisan propaganda from self-serving (to put it mildly) UN bureaucrats ten days before an election would be risible if the election itself weren't so important. Well, it must be to them too. That's obvious - because if they were doing it to sell newspapers, they are driving most of us further and further away from print.

His solution is delicious indeed:

Now who is responsible for this cheap smear? Well, as one real smart fellow once said, "Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one." And nobody that I know of has been able to successfully contradict him. And the man who owns The New York Times is Pinch Sulzberger. He'd evidently rather see George Bush lose than his newspaper print the truth. Now what should be done about Mr. Sulzberger's behavior? I propose a 'skimmity ride.' You English majors may recall it from Chapter 36 of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. The offending party is driven around the town in an open wagon and subjected to public ridicule. Maybe we should bring that back.

Another example of how The Left wants only rights but not the attendent responsibilities.