Based on the previous blog entry, I have sent the following to the editorial staff at ABCNews.com
An Open Letter To The Editorial Hacks at ABC News:
Dear Sir/Madam/Misc,
I just read your article by Brian Ross entitled: “EXCLUSIVE: Supreme Ethics Problem?”
Was your supreme ethics problem perhaps Ross’s article itself? You state that your investigation found no less than five justices who received country club memberships, yet you only name Justice Thomas when you list who those justices were. We are led to believe based on the previous portion of the article that Scalia must also be included in that. Even so, that still leaves three justices whom you fail to mention by name.
Is the Supreme Ethics Problem, therefore, nothing less than your failure to recognize any of the justices who were *NOT* conservative? Your biased reporting is both absurd and transparent for the bunk that it is. I cannot believe you would actually be able to graduate from a journalism school with this shoddy of a hit-piece.
Consider the following important questions that you apparently forgot to answer in the article: Which justices did you check in your investigation in the first place? Did you include Roberts, or did you leave him off because he just became a justice and it’s highly unlikely that he’s had any opportunity to accept any such memberships yet? Did you include Rehnquist, or did you leave him off because he’s dead? Did you include Sandra Day O’Connor, or did you leave her off because she’s retiring? This is important, because if none of these three were included in your investigation, then you’re concluding that five *OF SIX* justices accepted memberships.
Why is it that you only contacted Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas, who each declined interviews according to the end of your anti-conservative hit piece? Did you actually contact the other three justices who have accepted memberships, or did you just conveniently forget to include them since it’s better to point out the conservatives and pretend the liberals haven’t done anything? If you did contact them, did they actually respond to you? If so, what did they say? If not, why aren’t their names included in the list of justices you tried to contact for this piece who refused to respond?
Finally, why is it that you thought you could write such an obviously poor journalistic hit-piece and think you would get away with it? How stupid do you think the average reader is?
Sincerely yours,
CalvinDude
