Still Lying, Still Allowed To Lie

[zonmoy]

December 15, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- -I'm sorry, but there are moments when I just feel like a total alien who stumbled onto some planet full of bizarre life forms. They call this place America, and it sure is weird. And, lemme tell ya, I know what I'm talking about here. I've visited some pretty weird places in this part of the universe.

Try this on for size as an example. You might think that a president who is widely known for lying, who leads a party also known for the same, who is at the end of his term and virtually without any punitive power worth speaking of, and who is widely despised at home and abroad - you might think such a president would get a serious grilling when sitting down with the American media for an exit interview. And, even if that might seem like a giant leap for some, perhaps you'd at least be surprised if such an individual was allowed to continue to tell revisionist historical lies without being called to account in the slightest for doing so.

Yeah, well, different galaxy, I guess. On Planet America it seems a lot more like it's still 2002, and a frightened, compliant press is still learning how to embarrass itself by becoming a tool of a massively deceitful White House. Now that it's almost 2009, they've got it down to a science. Only today they don't even have the pathetic and shamefully flimsy excuse they did back then, in the wake of the 9/11 scare.

So here's what happens when one of America's most prominent journalists - Charles Gibson - sits down to interview George W. Bush. Bush, of course isn't doing the interview because he can't think of what else to do with himself anymore (although if you ask him what comes next after January 20, that's pretty much exactly what it looks like). He isn't just killing time, waiting for Cheney to dream up some other target for the administration's predatory instincts. He's got an agenda, which is why he's been granting a plethora of (safe) interviews lately. And that agenda is to write the first draft of history. Just like Jackie did her Camelot rap, successfully constructing the frame through which the Kennedy administration would long be seen, so a ham-fisted Burt and Ernie - er, sorry, George and Laura - are running around trying to rehabilitate, for the sake of history, the worst presidency ever.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21466.htm

[Enthusiast]

1. So what? nt

[tom_paine]

2. So, what?!? Without a Free Independent Press, there can be no freedom.

The grotesque toady courtiers that pass for TV "journalists" would have fit right in with any bunch from medeval Europe, and are as useless to journalism as they are to this nations.

They are clowns, for the most part, and our media is a laughingstock.

So what? Have you not been observing things these past 8 years?

Can you not see the significance of what we have just been through, and are still going through?

[Enthusiast]

3. I have been observant, yes.

And I agree. But members of the Bush cabal continue to express their concern with a "so what?" attitude. A free press is our most urgent need.