Blago vs. Bush: who abused press more?

[yurbud]

The press, federal prosecutors, and even fellow Democrats are rightly outraged at the blatantly corrupt behavior of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.

What is odd is how muted that outrage was when similar crimes were committed by the Bush administration.

Consider some of the complaints against Blagojevich:

He wanted the Chicago Tribune to fire their editorial board for being critical of him and used their desire to purchase Wrigley Field as leverage. Bush went a little further in manipulating the press. When Robert Scheer, the most progressive columnist at the Los Angeles Times was fired after 30 years, his publisher told him Bush hated every word he wrote. Since the Los Angeles Times parent company, the Tribune Company had just bought a TV station in a market where they owned the newspapers, which violated anti-trust laws, they needed an FCC waiver from the Bush administration to keep their purchase...

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In one respect, Bush entirely outdid Blagovich. He bombed a news organization. Twice.

He bombed the Al Jazeera headquarters in Afghanistan and Iraq, which puzzled Al Jazeera since they had given their coordinates to the US military. Bush wanted to bomb Al Jazeera's main headquarters in Qatar, but Tony Blair had to explain to him that it was bad manners to bomb an ally who was hosting your troops. That wasn't a rumor, it was from leaked minutes of a meeting between the two leaders...

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[trollybob]

1. Bush needs to be turned over to the International Criminal Court

and prosecuted just like any other world leader who has committed war crimes. Comparing what he did with Blagojevich's alleged wrongdoing is a fucking joke!

[psychmommy]

2. i was thinking this same thing.

where was all of this outrage for 8 years of political misbehavior, dare i say criminal acts. i am in awe how quickly we jump on dems but bush and his criminal cronies just skate on by. i stand in total outrage at this fauxrage of wanting something for a senate seat. what happened to fitzgerald's dogged determination when he was investigating karl rove.

[yurbud]

3. if Bush had tried to sell a senate seat, they would have rushed to make that legal

[psychmommy]

4. hahaha. i know that's right.