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Friday, March 31, 2006 12:00 AM

"Saddam chose to deny inspectors"

Bush repeated this bald-faced lie recently. The cowering press still lets him get away with it, but the public is no longer fooled.

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  • Friday, March 31, 2006 02:40 PM

    Free Press?

    Historians will wonder someday how a free press permitted the world's most important official to say such things without contradiction.

    No, they won't. Because they'll know what we know -- that a large majority of the press is anything but free. It's been bought and paid for by large multimedia conglomorates, most of which are owned by moguls who sit politically far, far to the right, and dictate the content of their outlets' content with iron-fist-in-velvet-glove precision.

    There's nothing free about most of the American Press.

    ~AmandaSo~

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