Media: "How could we ever have known?"

[janet118]

Please!!!

Why didn't the media ask some tough questions about the forged "yellow cake" document? Why didn't they just read Will Pitt and Scott Ritter's book, War on Iraq: What the Bush Team Doesn't Want You To Know, published in 2002, well before the invasion? Why didn't they listen to Senator Bob Graham who tried to warn us as much as the gag order imposed on him and the others who saw the raw intelligence reports let him?

Now the media front men and women are all excusing themselves for their cheerleading us into war.

What McClellan's book does is open a small crack of light inside the dark hole of the Bush administration, one of the most secretive administrations ever. Despite the fact that McClellan is telling us too little too late, he, unlike say Andy "you don't start marketing new products in August" Card who is hiding under a rock somewhere with his lips firmly glued shut, is at least offering insider confirmation of what those of us who have cared enough to get our information from the Internet, public television and books rather the mainstream media already knew.

I am so sick of media navel gazing after the fact. If the media are serious about their regrets, they should get off their butts and hold the administration accountable now. Instead of just ruing the past, they should make amends by questioning the propaganda and lies being foisted upon us now. Why don't they start asking tough questions about the phony intelligence being spewed about Iran and Venezuela at this very moment? Because they are not sorry. Because they don't care. Because they are soulless corporate whores.

Scott McClellan will be vilified for telling family secrets. He will be called crazy and embittered and who knows what else. Many people who have written books or editorials exposing secrets about this administration or the Bush family have paid with their careers and some even their lives (see J.H. Hatfield). Fortunately, for the administration, McClennan didn't seem to know many of them. He has done something that is not quite heroic, but I feel that he may have heard the stuff being put out on Iran and had a deja vu moment. Perhaps, he thought this should be out there before the next election. Maybe he just thought it would sell books. I don't know. But there are others who have defected from the dark side after committing some of its most egregious atrocities and become ardent truth tellers (David Brock, Arianna Huffington). So I will cut McClellan lots of slack. He did a good thing and, whether he knows it or not, he will pay a price higher than his measly book advance for his bitch slaps against the empire.

Ridin' herd on the right wing

[stubtoe]

1. They should do more than just make amends.

I'd like to see a major housecleaning in the ranks of the corporate MSM. These people should resign in shame.

[Tesha]

2. K&R... (NT)

[DCKit]

3. Welcome to DU!

I think you're "our kind" of people.

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