Meese’s Bully Pulpit
It was nice to see that Ed Meese has such a healthy attitude about his accomplishments as attorney general (“Duty-bound to Mount the Bully Pulpit,” Commentary, May 3, by Edwin Meese III and Bruce Fein). He proudly takes credit for the influence he feels he has had on the Supreme Court. What has his bully pulpit brought us? Court decisions permitting the execution of minors, allowing the harassment of child abuse victims in the courtroom, restricting a woman’s right to an abortion, and making police less accountable for their methods of interrogation.
Meese shamelessly gloats over these examples of “building new wisdom” and then, in a wonderful twist of illogic, claims that his attempts to dismantle affirmative action programs make him comparable to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Meese shrugs off “media skepticism” and staunchly defends his Pornography Commission, which spent a hefty chunk of taxpayers’ money to prove that, yes, there is such a thing as pornography.
He apparently feels quite vindicated but there are still some of us who view his time at the Justice Department as a true American obscenity.
CHARLES CRISAFULLI
Hollywood
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