Your post talks about how the Media would like us believe that people really want Republicans even though polls indicate they don't want Republicans or their policies.

I thought this was the situation with Reagan. People didn't like his policies and what he said he wanted to do with the country, but they voted for him anyway. The explanation for that, I take it, was that the Media and Republican strategists made Reagan's opponents into wooses who lost because of their negative personal traits. (The subject of one of your books)

I would expect the Media to start making Democrats into anti-American panty wastes pretty soon so that, even though the population wants and would vote for Democratis, i.e., leftish policies, they will be persuaded to vote against the spineless loser Democrats.

Given the push by Obama to be 'bi-partisan' and talky with the Republicans and offer so much to them, like not prosecute their thievery and torturing, etc, people will get the impression that there's something to the Media's characterizations.

On another note, I find it peculiar that Obama is so willing to give in to Republicans in order to make deals, on the one hand, but, I'm expecting him to be nasty and unrelenting, even refusing to talk a word to make a deal, when it comes to the Iranians. It's just my perception...

You said,

"...By stark and depressing contrast, America's political class and even most of its "journalists" -- in the face of far, far greater, more heinous and more direct war criminality by their highest political leaders -- are explicitly demanding that nothing be done and that it all be kept concealed..."

I'm wondering whether the fact that the crimes are so obvious makes it hard for American politicos and journalists to find fault with it. They cannot think that they are guilty of any kind of crime, so they refuse to believe that they have done anything so bad.

I suspect if you commit one crime, it's easier to admit it and stand up for your punishment. But, if you have committed countless crimes and have made people really suffer, it is just impossible to face it, to admit it, or to allow oneself to be punished. You have to decide to keep making the argument that you have done nothing wrong.

This may be why it's easier to ask for investigations in the U.K. where they were just going along with the U.S. than in the U.S. where the major criminality originated.

I am reminded of Nuremburg trials and the idea that Nazis could not admit that they did anything wrong.

If there was just one crime, one might argue that one had a bad day, or wasn't feeling well, and one got confused. It was a crime, but that in itself didn't make one a terrible person. However, there does not seem to be any excuse for years of crimes, for countless victims, for suffering, and pointless destructions. They then are really terrible people.

These guys just can't admit that.

You started your piece here,

"...Dick Cheney -- at John King's prodding -- accused Barack Obama of, among other things, lying to the public about his proposed domestic policies, taking advantage of the financial crisis to foist enlarged government on unsuspecting citizens, and leaving us all more vulnerable to slaughter by the Terrorists."

And then the story was about how the journalists thought the Obama guy was disrespectful to Cheney.

I am not surprised that many journalists are themselves committed to some political party or political leaders. "Yes," they could admit, "I worship Dick Cheney as a God, and I don't appreciate you speaking ill of him!"

I think the better response would have been for the Obama Press guy to have been more thoughtful before he responded. What was his reaction? ...Maybe he could have offered to respond to more specific allegations. For example, What lies? What response has Obama proposed that wasn't called for by our dire circumstances? And, what proposals does Cheney think the government is now ignoring?

There are many things which one should be pressuring Obama to do, and also many things that should be clarified. However, the press guy's response to vague ranting isn't it.