Letters to the Editor
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No short term memory in America
Glenn's article once again shows that what politicians say and do today has no connection to what they said or did in the recent past. Ditto for most of the media, and it's the media that truly disgusts me on this. It's one thing for politicians to blow with the wind, it's what they are expected to do.
But when "journalists" can, with a straight face, write articles or speak on TV and blatantly contraidict and ignore what they were promulgating a month or two ago, the media loses any credibility it has left. It is a mystery to me why so few people are calling them on it. Mr. Greenwald has become one of my favorite reads for this very reason - he's serving as our collective memory.
The latest example of all this is Bush declaring that he is reducing troops in Iraq as a result of the "surge." Gee, send 30,000 troops to Iraq, then bring most of them home and call it a troop reduction. Kind of like running up a budget deficit, then cutting some of it and calling it fiscal responsibility.
Please keep up the good work, Glenn.