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Baltimore Sun Calls For Civility Should Fall On Deaf EarsThe Sun calls Republican opposition to Obama’s Supreme court pick “not a comprehensive understanding of Ms. Sotomayor's legal thinking but a cheap use of coded language to score political points”. That’s exactly how I felt when the Sun ran the Jan 2006 editorial “Not Good Enough” opposing the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito. It’s also how I felt when the Sun further denigrated him in the Feb 2006 editorial “Supreme shift”. I wonder, when the Sun calls out for “thorough and thoughtful examination of the candidate's overall fitness for office”, does the editorial board recall the image of Judge Alito’s wife leaving the courtroom in tears due to the unfairness, pettiness and outright hostility of the questions being asked? Is this what the Sun has in mind? Why is it always the case that when the Democrats are in power the Sun cries out for civility, but when the Republicans are in power the Sun not only turns a blind eye to uncivil and partisan behavior, but seems to relish in it? If the Sun calls for restraint, how come the Sun doesn’t show any restraint? If the Sun calls for fairness and balance, how come the Sun doesn’t show any fairness and balance? Even the liberal Washington Post endorsed Judge Alito. On the other hand, the Sun’s anti-Alito editorials can be found plastered across radical, left-wing websites around the nation as testament to the fact that partisanship and divisiveness are morally acceptable. Witness this newspapers nonstop attack on Gov. Ehrlich and President Bush – vile, hateful, misleading and partisan, and subsequent calls from the editorial board for folks to treat Obama differently. The Sun has no credibility on the topic of bipartisanship, civility, or for that matter objective journalism, and should refrain from giving advice on such matters. Editor - bethesite.com
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