The Law of the Suspect.

The radicals of the French Revolution had a law that it was illegal to be a suspect. You did not have to become a person who had committed a crime - all the police had to do is name you as a suspect. That was enough. In fact, under French law, it falls on a person charged with a crime to show that he is innocent.

Today's radicals in the Mainstream news Media apply this French law to Conservatives. Remember Dan Rather accusing Bush that he went AWOL from the Texas Air Guard? When the letter "proving" Rather's charge was proven to be fraudulent, Rather insisted that the story was true, even though the documentation was a fraud.

The latest case of using the Law of the Suspect is the treatment of Rush Limbaugh by CNN and MSNBC. The two Liberal Networks repeat the charge that Limbaugh commented favorably on slavery. The trouble is that the quote attributed to Limbaugh is fraudulent, just as the "proof" of Dan Rather was a fraud. But, for Liberals, it is enough to be a "suspect" to convict someone and proof is not needed. In fact, one of the MSNBC commentators said that even if Limbaugh did not say it, he thought it.

Such people as the leaders and propagandists of CNN and MSNBC should not be allowed to be journalists.