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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
JKP1000
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Except, Bush is evil.
48 years ago next month, television station WTNA in New York aired a five-part television news report called "The Hate That Hate Produced". Hosted by Mike Wallace, the program sought to understand the thinking behind the Nation of Islam and how that thinking came to fruition.
When I read Glenn Greenwald, and I see the daily acceptance by our media of the war-mongering mentality of our government (a mentality we used to decry), I wonder if anyone (or could anyone) create a similar documentary about "The Hate That Hate Produced" that documents the US government's war-mongering before massive numbers of innocent people are killed. The national media is clearly uninterested in the deceit that lead us into Iraq (and that is currently leading us into Iran on a much bigger scale), or the mass-murder it has already produced.
Our government's previous desire for regime change with Saddam Hussein in Iraq, that has now been transferred onto Mahmud Ahmadinejad in Iran and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, obviously has more to do with the oil they sit on, and flexing our military muscle, than any human rights violation (as if human suffering is a problem) or any perceived threat (certainly not to the US).
It's clear that something outrageously evil is going to transpire (sorry Glenn, but if evil has any meaning, this crowd controlling the White House is it) unless a stronger force can stop it. And by "stronger force" I don't mean a military one.
Once again, thanks to our morally depraved Born-Again-Christian-in-Chief, America's standing in the world as the beacon of liberty, truth and respected moral prinicples, with an unwavering commitment to the rule of international law, is being further turned into the enemy we used to despise and fight.
We have met the enemy, and they is us!
Not only has the US (and many of it's citizens, apparently) accepted what can only be seen as the United States new role as world tyrant (brutalizing people the world over, taking over the jobs formally held by Saddam Hussein and 3rd world dictators), but little is seemingly being done to reverse this grotesque turn for the worst.
Is it any wonder Kurt Vonnegut said there is truly no hope for humanity?
The great American experiment failed, kids. Our glorious "white, Christian male power structure" made sure of that.
As always, Glenn, you deliver a great column that cuts through the childishly immature mindset that clouds up so much of our news coverage. The only exception I take to your argument (and it may have been pointed out. I didn’t read all the prior responses) is the same exception I took in the early days of this war when people said it was patriotism that made people want to kill the Dixie Chicks for what Natalie Manes said about Bush. The love for secrecy and strong, unaccountable leaders is ONLY applicable to leaders who are Republican.
This giddy love for what Cheney is doing not only would not be tolerated under the exact same circumstances with a Democratic administration, it would have never been allowed in the first place, having been an impeachable offense that would have ended a non-Republican administration.
These sycophants love REPUBLICAN authority figures, NOT Democratic authority. And the people that screamed and hollered and wanted Natalie Manes head would have just laughed it off (presuming it would have even been news) had she said even more derogatory words about a President Gore or a President Kerry.
While there may be some (Hasselbeck, perhaps) who would blindly accept government corruption “in a time of war” regardless of the party, the OVERWHELMING majority of people that act like little girls hitting puberty (Carlson, Goldberg, Matthews, O’Reilly, etc.) do this only because of the inane manly-man nonsense sold to Americans for years about a party that is otherwise completely devoid of bravery, toughness, or masculinity.
Thank you for putting into rational, sensible, and calmly collected words what I am completely unable to say with my boiling rage at this moment. Not only at this obscenely, criminally corrupt administration that faces NO oversight - not even to the basic laws every American must abide by - but with our national media that not only allowed this to happen, but openly (slavishly, as you say) encouraging their Republican masters to f*** the American people up the a**!
Knowing that there is no television station in the United States that calls itself a "news network" that will be covering this travesty of justice objectively and not adhering 100% to the GOP talking points further aggravates this obscene subverting of justice.
The fact that you can put this into rational words is why the media refuses to have you on (despite your having a #1 book currently on Amazon).
Having Tim Russert, Wolf Blitzer, ABC, CBS, and NBC as our "serious television news" (without even going into the lunatic rightwing voices comprising the majority of TV heads) is like having only 3-year-olds shitting in their hands and smearing it on the screen as our TV media voices.
Not only will this be pooh-poohed as a "logical outcome", but watch how fast they get back to Paris Hilton and missing white girls on TV.. I say not before this day is out.
Thank you, Glenn! I don't know what we'd do without your reasonable, rational, and constitutionally-driven point of view in this time of hysterical rightwing insanity controlling public discourse and allowing murder, torture, corporate wars and open attacks on the United States of America go unpunished.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
