Hero/patriot Dan Froomkin says goodbye to his readers and good riddance to the Wah!Poo in a gracious column. Well, OK, he reams the the neocon suckhole a new one. But in an amicable and gallant way. Sort of:
When I look back on the Bush years, I think of the lies. There were so many. Lies about the war and lies to cover up the lies about the war. Lies about torture and surveillance. Lies about Valerie Plame. Vice President Dick Cheney's lies, criminally prosecutable but for his chief of staff Scooter Libby's lies. I also think about the extraordinary and fundamentally cancerous expansion of executive power that led to violations of our laws and our principles. How did the media cover it all? Not well...
Hopefully, the next time the nation faces a grave national security crisis, we will listen to the people who were right, not the people who were wrong, and heed those who reported the truth, not those who served as stenographers to liars.
Hopefully, the next time the nation faces a grave national security crisis, we will listen to the people who were right, not the people who were wrong, and heed those who reported the truth, not those who served as stenographers to liars.
Hot damn!
Kudos to the Froomster. That was beautiful. **snif**
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I truly am to the point where -- IF I read/listen to the mainstream media (and I never read/listen to right-wing stuff) -- I'll almost automatically assume the OPPOSITE of their political position is true, especially for contemporary events. Yeah, we all agree that the Hitlers/Stalins/Pol Pots were horrible tyrants, but after that it quickly gets murky, politically/ethically speaking.
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