Letters to the Editor
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And what about Salon?
Why isn't this story, your story, on the front page of this rag, instead of that Walter Shapiro piece of bs punditry that I have no interest in reading. In fact, your column should just be on the front page everyday, Glenn, since you are clearly the most intelligent and principled writer on this site.
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like a sport event
the media will highlite the better plays most of time . if opposing team as no offense to score points media wont talk about their strenght. but if by any chance they go on offense they have to report what goes on in the field cant ignore it. like glen says they need to keep on going on offense and score points
to be legitimate winners.
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A wise suggestion
Glenn
Please consider changing the title of this piece to "Journalists, McCain and false Iran/al-Qaida link"
-- Scientician
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The other reason they're not addressing it
The media take their cues from the political opposition. They did the poor job they did in the run-up to the Iraq war in part because high Democratic officials were OK'ing the Bush line, echoing it, voting for use-of-force resolutions, etc., so there was no electoral-politics-based controversy -- nothing to suggest that one candidate's (or eventual candidate's) fortunes would rise or fall vis-a-vis another's depending on the outcome of the controversy. (That the country's or world's fortunes would rise or fall was not enough to trigger media scrutiny.)
In the current instance, McCain has no Republican opponent, and the Democrats aren't making an issue of it, so the press goes to sleep. It's true that it would be harder anyway to get them interested due the ingrained assumptions about McCain, Republicans and national security that they bring to all this, but without an electoral opponent of McCain saying "This is an issue," they just will not decide for themselves that it's an issue. That's a key part of news-media convention and "issue framing" that Democrats have never seemed to grasp.
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The United States Department of War
The United States Department of War, sometimes also called the War Office, was the department of the United States government's executive branch responsible for the operation and maintenance of land (and later air) forces from 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it became part of the National Military Establishment, renamed on August 10, 1949 the Department of Defense. The department had responsibility for the young nation's naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798.
The War Department was headed by the Secretary of War, who was also a member of the President's Cabinet.
Upon becoming a part of the National Military Establishment, the War Department was renamed the Department of the Army and became one of the three military departments of the Federal government. At the same time, the Army Air Forces were separated from the Army and became the U.S. Air Force under the newly-formed Department of the Air Force.
Prior to World War II, many countries had a Ministry of War which was responsible for national defense. However, in the aftermath of the carnage of WW II, governments came to the conclusion that the use of the word “war” added, if not assumed, a bellicose attitude towards military preparedness. Thus, the late 1940s and 1950s witnessed the renaming from “War” to “Defense” in most countries around the globe. One vestige of the former nomenclature is War College, where military officers of the United States are still trained in battlefield strategy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War
See Secretary of War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War
Orwell is laughing.
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Notes on the root of all evil
1. What McCain is dong is a clumsy but effective part of an obvious plan to move the Overton window -- again -- to include the next war (against Iran). The MSM is only too happy to cooperate. Not sure why, but I am beginning to suspect that many of them are like Lieberman's constituency in CT -- they like to think of themselves as "liberal", but do what they can to ensure that the center they are just to the left of keeps moving to the right.
2. Lest we forget, not only is this how we got into the Iraquagmire, it is how we got Dubya in the first place (see, e.g, anything Bob Somerby ever wrote).
3. Barack Obama, wonderful as he seems to be, isn't going to fix this. He has clearly made a conscious decision NOT to take on the dysfunction in the Washington press corpse. I suspect he is right that taking them on now is no way to win an election. He may not kiss up like McCain, but I highly doubt we will be seeing Glennzilla-eque broadsides from him any time soon. The laboring oars will have to remain our own small paddles.
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Thanks for the mention, respect, and the honoring of the 4,000 slain because of Lies. Respect the perceived 'foe''...'
Mr 'A' @ the other page made me wonder and laugh. If 98% is crap. Oy!
That's with your and mine included it may be 100% crap and we need a bath?
It's "turgid, incoherent, excretions,"
and needs a Laundromat detergent.
The government knows all about it.
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Zack has it right
Leading these deceptions, as usual, is the Weekly Standard, where Thomas Joscelyn lays out the new policy more explicitly:
But McCain was right the first time. He shouldn’t have taken his statement back. And it’s the bloggers who are ignorant--not John McCain.
Yes, I've heard that meme now a number of times. Mort Kondrake and Fred Barnes were agreeing the other day on the tube that "you have to be delusion not to realize the Iran/Al Qaeda link". Then almost the same story with that same line ran in the NY Sun. Now the Weekly Standard.
"You have to be delusion not to realize the Iran/Al Qaeda link."
"These aren't the droids you are looking for."
War with Iran is the new way to peace.
These sick bastards want more war and they're not getting called on their lies and propaganda -- except by people like Glenn, of course.
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Sorry for the O/T, but about that Horton interview
Horton said something that really struck me. He said we should all thank Glenn Greenwald for (paraphrasing) supplying the liberal grass-roots with the "intellectual ammunition" needed to defeat (at least temporarily) retroactive telecom amnesty...
So, thanks Glenn. And pass the ammunition!
Now, is McCain stupider than George Bush, or simply more disingenuous?
And when is Lewis Black going to do a face-off between Politicians and The MSM on "Root of All Evil"?