John Fund On Elian Gonzalez

John Fund notes parallels between the Elian Gonzalez and Terri Schiavo cases.

Based on this PBS timeline, he seems to leave out many key differences, including the final resolution in Federal courts.  Not that I am a Janet Reno fan.

HELP:  What is the trick to perma-linking WSJ stories?

Comments

[Michael Vickers]

"HELP: What is the trick to perma-linking WSJ stories?"

Tom, Looks like you have to search for the article on the site. I did a search on "John Fund On The Trail" and in the list of items found the permalink for the article:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110006480

[Giacomo]

The easiest way to get them is to go to the main opinionjournal.com page, then right-click the link for Fund's article and "copy shortcut". That's where the link is "pure".
Now, if anyone can tell me how to get to a selected entry in Taranto's "Best of the Web" directly, I'll be a happy camper.

[gt]

Wow, seems John Fund, how shall we put it, deceived his readers?

[Stephen M. St. Onge]

Giacomo:

If you want a URL for a given days "Best of the Web," which is what I presume you mean by "get to a selected entry . . . directly", go to Today's, go to the bottom of the page, click 'previous day', go to the bottom of the page, click 'next day', and you're back on Today's "Best", but the permalink is in your address bar.

Alternatively, go to the arcive and get it from there, but the first method is more reliable, as it works even if the "Best" for that day isn't in the archive yet.

Or did I mistake your meaning?

[Stephen M. St. Onge]

      I looked at the timeline, and there's not much there.  I don't see anything that contradicts Fund's main point: that Clinton and Reno's actions forcibly removed Elian's case from the state courts to federal jurisdiction.

      If that was good in Elian's case, why was it bad in Terri's?

THE SAUDS MUST BE DESTROYED!

[Stephen M. St. Onge]

Giacomo:

      A third way to get the URL for a "Best of the Web" is to get a free e-mail subscription.  At the top of mine from yesterday is Best of the Web Today - March 28, 2005, followed by the web page, with at the end: "URL for this article: http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110006481," just before the "Today on Opinion Journal" links.

      That URL is NOT on the main page, nor is it in the version you find in the archives, but there it is in the e-mail version.

      Hope that was of help, and that in return, you'll stop people at random on the streets, and force them to read my blog.

THE SAUDS MUST BE DESTROYED!

[Jack Tanner]

The Schiavo case is a new mathamatical discovery. It is analagous to everything... euthanasia, abortion, Elian Gonzales, 2000 election, 2004 election, Iraq, 9/11, impeachment, death penalty. You name it, this case hase it!

[byrd]

I've read this blog long enough to take gt's comments with a grain of salt, but help me out here gt--how did John Fund deceive his readers?

I haven't thought about Elian Gonzalez in a few years and my command of the details isn't what it used to be.

[byrd]

I've read this blog long enough to take gt's comments with a grain of salt, but help me out here gt--how did John Fund deceive his readers?

I haven't thought about Elian Gonzalez in a few years and my command of the details isn't what it used to be.

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

Fund deceived his readers by not including all the gory details. Such as how the affidavit claimed Elian was being 'concealed' (he appeared just about daily on television), and held against his will.

He also neglected to mention that a personal friend of Janet Reno was sitting at the Gonzalez kitchen table negotiating with her over the telephone about the custody of Elian when she sent the jackbooted thugs in with guns.

Nor that it seems that the raid was precipitated by the demands of Fidel Castro. That even Allen Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe were aghast at her blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment.