Comments on: Impeachment pie has more takers http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/07/05/impeachment-pie-has-more-takers/ Moments in an imaginary age Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:13:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Jeremy http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/07/05/impeachment-pie-has-more-takers/#comment-24 Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:17:06 -0700 http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/07/05/impeachment-pie-has-more-takers/#comment-24 that's my cruz! i'll eat a slice for you when i get home. that’s my cruz! i’ll eat a slice for you when i get home.

]]> by: Steven Sande http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/07/05/impeachment-pie-has-more-takers/#comment-25 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:28:35 -0700 http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/07/05/impeachment-pie-has-more-takers/#comment-25 Dan Froomkin, on a <em><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/06/BL2005070601211_pf.html">Washington Post</a></em> blog (via <em><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/twistedchick/2005/07/11/">Free Speech Zone</a></em>), on the paucity of media coverage: <blockquote>Only three mainstream outlets that I can find made even cursory mention of the poll last week when it came out. You also wouldn't know it judging from the political discourse in Washington, but that makes a little more sense. After all, impeachment is for all practical purposes a political act, not a legal one. So with a Republican-controlled Congress that doesn't even like to perform basic White House oversight, it's basically a moot point. Nevertheless, could there be anything that 42 percent of Americans agree on that the media care about so little? </blockquote> Dan Froomkin, on a Washington Post blog (via Free Speech Zone), on the paucity of media coverage:

Only three mainstream outlets that I can find made even cursory mention of the poll last week when it came out.

You also wouldn’t know it judging from the political discourse in Washington, but that makes a little more sense. After all, impeachment is for all practical purposes a political act, not a legal one. So with a Republican-controlled Congress that doesn’t even like to perform basic White House oversight, it’s basically a moot point.

Nevertheless, could there be anything that 42 percent of Americans agree on that the media care about so little?

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