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The "oppressed" core
Colbert's criticism of the White House press corps was spot on. With the brave and increasingly marginalized exceptions of people like Helen Thomas, they have turned into a mob of timid, fawning stenographers.
Am I the only one who watched in disgust Rumsfield's press conferences a few years ago? He joked about the "Shock & Awe" that was butchering thousands of conscripts (as if a similar number of innocents were not being simultaneously blasted out of existence in homes, schools and hospitals) and the press corps responded like android laugh machines?