Orville Schell, a journalist and the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, on the PBS program NOW:
I read even Bill Keller, the editor of the New York Times, who made remonstrations against the government, and in it one sees all sorts of self-doubting, self-questioning, ombudsmen, self-lacerations — I mean, it’s the very healthy actual liberal impulse to find whatever fault one can within oneself, before blaming someone else.
It’s not a bad human instinct.
It dates back a while. From Luke 6:41:
…why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Schell continues:
In the world in which we presently live, that is a sign of weakness, and people like Bill O’Reilly or the administration — they’ll just drive a truck right through there and mow you down.
And Jesus continues:
Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
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