The Washington Post is doing its part, too.

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/07/manufacturing-consent-of-at-least-41-of.html

Let me ask you something. From reading this Washington Post op-ed, without doing any other research, would you have known that editorial's author, Christine Shipman, was part of the infamous Office of Special Plans working for Douglas Feith (himself being infamous for peddling bogus links between Iraq and al Qaeda) and one of the principle architects of the bogus intelligence used to sell a war with Iraq to the American people? (h/t The Progressive Daily)

"A more complete understanding of Iraq's relationship with al-Qaeda will emerge when historians can exploit the numerous seized documents free from the politics of the Iraq war."

For fuck's sake. It's July 2007 and this rotted administration is still trying to fraud the American public with the same bullshit propaganda. This is an insult to every citizen in the republic, it is an insult to reason, and an assault on reality.

Why in [insert deity of choice]'s name is the Washington Post helping the Bush administration help fabricate a reality more amenable to it's ideological worldview/political interests.

See, they work the candle from both ends. Iran is fueling the insurgency in Iraq/attacking the US - that's one end. Iraq was linked to al Qaeda and 9/11 - that's the other end.

Put it together and the adminstrations gets to say that fighting Iran is about revenving 9/11.

revenvin = revenging

"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations." - Joseph Pulitzer, The North American Review (May 1904)

This weekend I hope to write a 4 part series reviewing several books with the unifying theme of how each relates the the current threat that democracy is presented with. Two of the reviews will be Glenn's book and Gore's. Hopefully, I'll be able to start with Pt. 1 on Monday.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWI0ODU5MDQ5ZjEwZTAyYWVlNTJlYjVjNjJiY2M3MzY=&w=MA==

That's right. EXPAND Gitmo to be a global concentration camp where no one is ever released. That's sure to spread some democracy and win some hearts and minds.

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/07/angry-left.html

Pat Tillman joined the army giving up a million dollar celebrity life to serve his country. When the United States invaded Iraq, Tillman began to question the motives of the administration and viewed it as a distraction from the mission that he enlisted and ultimately gave his life for.

The administration covered up the circumstances of his death and then used Tillman as a p.r. prop to help sell a war that Tillman did not approve of. I lack the words to express how truly rotten that is.

And now, to add to this indiginity, they refuse to submit to oversight.

This administration is out of control. Someone needs to draw up a Declaration of Impeachment, modeled after the Declaration of Independence. This would not be difficult, given that Bush has done many of the things that the founders listed as grievances against King George III.

Also, the founders gave Congress the sole authority to authorize war because of King George's refusal to listen to his generals during the Revolutionary war and willingness to continue the war no matter what.

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/07/sound-familiar.html

Sure, impeachment is a long shot, but no one was seriously considering declaring independence until Thomas Paine convinced them the "common sense" necessity of it.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWI0ODU5MDQ5ZjEwZTAyYWVlNTJlYjVjNjJiY2M3MzY=&w=MA==

Yeah, if you're a fan of a magazine with articles arguing that the United States of America should become the first country in the world to create a global concentration camp that uses torture I don't find it too surprising that some of the readers might have got bitten by the authoritarian bug.

Richard Hofstadter appears to be the most acute analyst of American politics in the 20th century.

Hofstadter on the pseudo-conservative (i.e. what is today's movement conservative)

"It can most accurately be called pseudo-conservative -- I borrow the term from the study of The Authoritarian Personality published five years ago by Theodore W. Adorno and his associates -- because its exponents, although they believe themselves to be conservatives and usually employ the rhetoric of conservatism, show signs of a serious and restless dissatisfaction with American life, traditions and institutions"

"Their political reactions express rather a profound and largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways -- a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive clinical evidence”

“Their political reactions express rather a profound and largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways -- a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive clinical evidence ... The pseudo-conservative, Adorno writes, shows 'conventionality and authoritarian submissiveness' in his conscious thinking and 'violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere… The pseudo conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition.'"