Impeachment talk is welling up from the magma of private discussion, and fumeroles are starting to appear on the media surface. Bonnie Erbe, a Scripps-Howard columnist, bluntly states that it's "Time to Impeach Bush" (Feb. 20). A Zogby International poll taken last month showed that Americans by a 52-43 % margin favor impeaching George W. Bush if he "if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval," as he has audaciously claimed to have authority to do, even as he frantically resists congressional efforts to examine what he has in fact done. Why no media brouhaha? she rightly wonders.
Yes, the poll results have been reported on a few Web sites. But they have not exactly been trumpeted by the Blow Hard Boys on the Fox News Channel, nor even "front-paged" on the New York Times. Nor have they appeared as the lead story on any of the evening newscasts. From the right to the left, this poll has been ignored--as has a recent Gallup poll showing a majority of Americans consider the Bush presidency to be a failure. Why? Because it's seen as risky.
Should the story get into play, though, the calculus of risk may shift--journalists hate to be scooped. The "Blow Hard Boys" in the blogosphere have been chattering about impeachment-crazed lib'ruls for months now. [Update: MSNBC is running an online poll, here.]
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