Um are you implying that the Pope sodomizes little boys? Nice going there with that one. That says a lot about the thoughts that run through one's head. Here's why what you said is completely inane and a non-sequitor. Us wishing the Pope would smack Barry around has to do with the fact that he supports something that is so contrary to Christian values yet, at the same time, claims he is a devout Christian. Your comment, on the other hand, is tantamount to person convicted of murder yelling back at a white judge..."Oh yeah...well some white people once owned slaves!"

NHBill 16p · 36 minutes ago

Great visual if your a twisted sick jerk! Jeez you righties are twisted,

You libs are really laughable. You guys are the kings of hate when it comes to those who disagree with you (see Olberman, Sean Penn, etc.), and yet you make this comment as if your so above having those kind of thoughts. I have a question...Does a smile come to your face at the thought of somebody hitting Rush Limbaugh? How about somebody throwing a shoe at Bush? Oh yeah...that actually happened and libs all over the country were laughing about it and defending the actual thrower! Also, didn't Bill Maher muse that he kind of wished the terrorists would have suceeded when they detonated a bomb close to where Cheney was when he visited Iraq? And those are just a few that immediately come to mind. So spare us the false shock and outrage at us delighting in the fantasy of having the Pope punk this disgrace of man...let alone President

Again...simply laughable! Are you trying to earn pc points with this one? Michelle Obama looks better than Laura Bush....ok. You will be lauded by every Liberal for such progressive thinking. It's funny that you fawn all over these two when in reality (if you're a white person that is) they despise you. You so guilt ridden over something you had NOTHING to do with that you will kiss the arses of people who genuinely loathe you. I bet in secret Barack and Michelle laugh about how people like you.

NHBill 16p · 36 minutes ago

Great visual if your a twisted sick jerk! Jeez you righties are twisted,

You libs are really laughable. You guys are the kings of hate when it comes to those who disagree with you (see Olberman, Sean Penn, etc.), and yet you make this comment as if your so above having those kind of thoughts. I have a question...Does a smile come to your face at the thought of somebody hitting Rush Limbaugh? How about somebody throwing a shoe at Bush? Oh yeah...that actually happened and libs all over the country were laughing about it and defending the actual thrower! Also, didn't Bill Maher muse that he kind of wished the terrorists would have suceeded when they detonated a bomb close to where Cheney was when he visited Iraq? And those are just a few that immediately come to mind. So spare us the false shock and outrage at us delighting in the fantasy of having the Pope punk this disgrace of man...let alone President.

Has anybody else noticed that not one troll has commented on this story? I guess we finally found something that even Obamatrons can't defend.

Not hiring a person you dislike is fine for most endeavors. However, journalism is probably the most glaring exception where this can't be the case...that is if your primary purpose is a search for the truth. What happened here would be similar to a D.A. giving blanket immunity to a witness and then after the testimony saying "Well I didn't know you were gonna say you hated puppies and unicorns in your testimony. Screw that agreement...you're going to jail." And yes it is on that level because information was disclosed that may not have otherwise been. Information that Ziegler realized may cause him professional harm, but none the less was willing to disclose for the fact that he was gurannteed wide dissemination. Journalsim is truly dead if with it comes along the notion that whether I like you or not has a major influence on whether I distort the truth or outright don't report it.

Your juvenile comment couldn't have proved his point any better. In essence you're saying that you despise Ziegler so you can understand why they hung up on him and went back on their word. That's fine for polite conversation and all, but this had to do with no reporting something of journalistic value simply for the fact that you don't like the personality of a particular person. And like John said, this has not only become common place...it's practically the norm. How many stories are not reported or at least not reported accurately simply out of disdain for the subject? Again the major premise of the article was that journalism used to be about the truth. Whether or not the truth was coming from really likeable guy or a jerk should have NOTHING to with the search for the truth.

cjenk · 3 hours ago
"Poor little Johnny Ziegler! I love hearing you cry about this stuff.
I love this bit - 'When I simply tried to inquire as to the reasoning behind (or lack thereof) and the ramifications of such a decision, she abruptly and rudely hung up on me.'

'Simply' here no doubt means ' being a loud, rude and sanctimonious wanker'

Has it ever occurred to you that you get treated this was because you're an arrogant, spiteful d*ckwad. You'll never realise that though, and thats why I love you."

Boy you practically missed the entire premise of the article. The primary point he was making had to with personal anomosity and personal dislike of a particular person getting in the way of reporting. Whether or not you like Ziegler shouldn't affect whether you print a story you already promised you would. Like he said, one of the major reasons he wrote it had to do with the fact he was promised it would be run in Sunday's paper. That's why he's so pissed off.

All this garbage about prosecting Bush now is just follwing the big lie to its logical conclusion. After all, they've been yelling about an "illigal war" for so long now that they'd look like if hypocrites if they didn't at least pretend they were going to do something about now. Now you get Obama who makes Bush's spending look like nothing, but somehow that's ok now. The sad thing is that it worked. A majority of Americans hate Bush and they don't even really know why. Iraq and Katrina are usually the ones a liberal will cite if pressed, and both those events were pure fabrication and propaganda as to how they were failures. Even the press will admit that all Bush really did wrong when it comes to Katrina was that he made a PR mistake by now immediately going to the cite. Yet somehow a "PR" mistake has been blown up to the point that most Americans think Bush somehow caused the hurricane.

Bingo AndrewPrice! I've come to the conclusion that most libs and especially the ones currently in power stand for very little. All this garbage they complained about Bush was just a means to get back into power. Obama is basically advocating a "surge" strategy in Afghanistan yet Obama was against that policy in Iraq when Bush was in charge. They stand for hardly anything. For some time now I've held the belief that had Gore been elected and we went to war in Iraq (which we most certainly would have) the Dems and media would be singing the praises of the great sucesses in Iraq. What's more instead of counting every dead American soldier as if they died for nothing we'd be hearing and reading about the amazing amount of dead terrorists as compared to our relatively low casualties. The Dems are so loathsome and lustful for power that they willfully undermined our foreign policy interests in order to seize power.