Have you no sense of decency

This whole election cycle, I’ve been wondering who would ask what I think is perhaps the most important question facing us these days. I was wondering who would take the role of Joseph Welch, and ask the question, “Have you no sense of decency?”

Somehow, I expected Edwards to ask Cheney that question, or perhaps that is the question that the grand jury was asking Rove.

On Thursday, Frank Rich asked, “Will We Need a New 'All the President's Men'?” He comments about how flawed the media is right now, commenting, “It's hard to imagine an operation more insidious than Mr. Murdoch's, but the Sinclair Broadcast Group may be it.”

Yet Frank Rich isn’t the true bearer of the mantel of Joseph Welch. Right now, the closest we have to that is Jon Stewart. On Crossfire Friday, he harangued the hosts with comments like this: “And I made a special effort to come on the show today, because I have privately, amongst my friends and also in occasional newspapers and television shows, mentioned this show as being bad . . . it's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America. “

We have yet to see what comes of Karl Rove’s appearance before the grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame leak, so lacking that, this weeks Joseph Welch award goes to Jon Stewart.

Posted by Aldon Hynes at October 16, 2004 11:34 PM | TrackBack