I don't disagree with your stenographer point. Cheney's big mouth creates a complex challenge for our M$M. They love a cat fight by the big lions. They won't be able to resist making it an Obama vs. Cheney fight of the century. To make it even more loverly, The Dick has really stuck his out because he is strongly criticizing the new administration when you just don't do that as the leaving administration and he is portraying himself as the Perfect Lion with the largest, most patriotic, life saving dick. Cheney is just too wonderful a target to not shoot at. It is also revealing for the first time that when you really piss off Obama, he will fight back strongly with considerable skill. How can they resist that? The fact it could eventually lead to actually charging a president and vice president, one of whom is really asking for it, is also irresistible. Then you have the complication of both parties in congress being complicit.

I know it has taken far too long for you and I and others for this story to take hold. This fight is just too big and spectacular to be resisted any longer even if you are one of many of the M$M who are also complicit.

This is one our M$M will relish and not ignore

White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney

Greg Sargent, The Plum Line, 5-11-09 (see sig)

There’s a big piece of news about Dick Cheney and torture buried toward the end of this big Washington Post piece about the torture wars.

Specifically: The White House has decided to declassify and release a classified 2004 CIA report about the torture program that is reported to have found no proof that torture foiled any terror plots on American soil — directly contradicting Cheney’s claims. The paper cites “allies” of the White House as a source.

Dem Congressional staffers tell me this report is the “holy grail,” because it is expected to detail torture in unprecedented detail and to cast doubt on the claim that torture works — and its release will almost certainly trigger howls of protest from conservatives. Tellingly, neither the CIA nor the White House knocked down the story in response to my questions, with spokespeople for both declining comment. Here’s the key nugget from the Post piece:

Government officials familiar with the CIA’s early interrogations say the most powerful evidence of apparent excesses is contained in the “top secret” May 7, 2004, inspector general report, based on more than 100 interviews, a review of the videotapes and 38,000 pages of documents. The full report remains closely held, although White House officials have told political allies that they intend to declassify it for public release when the debate quiets over last month’s release of the Justice Department’s interrogation memos…

Although some useful information was produced, the report concluded that “it is difficult to determine conclusively whether interrogations have provided information critical to interdicting specific imminent attacks,” according to the Justice Department’s declassified summary of it.

This news is particularly timely in light of Cheney’s continuing high-profile claims that torture may have saved “hundreds of thousands of lives.” The report is the one I wrote about recently that the ACLU obtained through litigation in highly redacted form. It has an entire redacted section that discusses the “effectiveness” of torture — or lack thereof.

The release of this thing is going to be a big deal. You heard it here first.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/white-house-to-declassify-holy-grail-torture-report-that-could-undercut-cheney/

Our M$M today believe it is far more important to condemn Obama for laughing at criticism, not joke, about Limbaugh at WHCD than torturing and limbo detaining other countries' journalists. On today's The View, that was discussed as Elizabeth took up the GOP/Drudge mantra. Jason Linkins of HuffPo understands our M$M and what is “really” important.

Obama, Sykes, Limbaugh Slated To Be Today's Media Obsession

Jason Linkins, HuffPo, May 11, 2009 (see sig)

It's a fact of life that sometimes, events unfold in such a way that you can smell a White House Press Corps obsession coming from a mile away. And while this Sunday's morning chat made me feel like a whole lot of new attention should be given to our regional partners in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region, I can tell you for certain that today's press cycle shall be given over to the subject of laughter.

Specifically, the topic of Wanda Sykes, and the laughter of President Barack Obama at this weekend's White House Press Correspondents' Dinner, and specifically a joke, made at Rush "I Hope He Fails" Limbaugh's expense. "I hope his kidneys fail."

Oh, and the joke? I don't much go in for humor based in ultra-personal, real-life death fantasies, and renal failure, on top of that, has always struck me as a particularly sad way to die. Jokes about it, and this one in particular, approach the same level of unfunniness as say, jokes about armed forces members gunning down Congressional leaders. (By the way, go out and make note of all those David Feherty defenders who've suddenly discovered outrage this morning. I bet you they are out there.)

This whole incident drew the hot-blooded attention of Matt Drudge, and sure enough, we wake up today in a world where this terrible crisis is about to bloom with a perilous intensity.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/11/obama-sykes-limbaugh-slat_n_201480.html