Letters to the Editor
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Great job, Mr. Olbermann
Too bad Bush will never hear it. His handlers will make sure it never reaches his ears. And the majority of U.S. citizens won't hear it either, even though it should be required listening/watching/reading. Instead it will get no airplay on conservative-dominated radio, no traction or replay on conservative-dominated cable news, and barely a reference in conservative-dominated newspaper editorials.
Bush commuted Libby's sentence on Monday, July 2. As of Wednesday, July 4, you couldn't find a single headline referencing his cronyist misdeed anywhere. The Drudge Report scrubbed it from his headlines even though on Monday he'd linked to dozens of stories, and even though other articles about "weird news" had lingered just as long. Even most major newspapers stopped running stories and editorials on it. By July 4th it's as if the collective unconscious was wiped clean of Bush ever having commuted Libby's prison sentence.
That's how it works: Release bad news while people are on vacation, or just before a holiday, or at the last minute before the weekend, or whatever it takes to minimize the ripple effect. Bush and company have been honing their media-manipulation skills for years. Here they're up to their old tricks yet again. Do you think anybody heard you, Mr. Olbermann? Everybody was at the beach or in the pool when you gave your eloquent speech. Your megaphone does not reach far enough.
And you forgot one important thing. Unlike Nixon, Bush does not have any mind of his own. He does not have any shame. Bush has accomplished the remarkable task of making Richard Nixon look like an honorable man by comparison.