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Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:00 AM

The ongoing disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams

Another story from the NYT further exposes the corruption of NBC's reliance on Gen. Barry McCaffrey as an "independent military analyst."

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  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008 09:41 AM

    Former Drug Czar McCaffrey's two-face corruption scandal can only be addressed by Saturday Night Live!

    This man, McCaffrey, Bill Clinton's enforcer of cruel and unjust American drug-war policy and sentences, as well as having been the American military commander directly abutting (overseeing?) the Saddam Hussein slaughter of Marsh Shiites and others in 1991 after Gulf War I, which was explicitly permitted and even encouraged by President George Bush the 1st (Iraqi helicopters, baby!), has to be satirized by Saturday Night Live, the only broadcast medium allowed to say anything halfway important.

    Saturday Night Live is the only way to get NBC's and the other networks' attention these days. That's because it's the only thing the public pays enough attention to that's free to watch. Otherwise, it's all a tree falling in the forest situation. Actually, it should fall on Brian Williams and Mel Gibson's brother-in-arms, Charlie, but only to pin them down.

    These network news executives and their anchors (dead weights?), including Blitzer and the Fox propaganda squad, plus the hate-radio all-stars, should be shipped in chains in steerage to The Hague when the time comes, along with their idols Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Kristol, Perle, Wolfowitz, Bremer, et al. Not kidding at all (well, maybe not in steerage). Serbia had the courage, remorse, and public morality to send Milosevic. The U.S. has.....The Daily Show!

    Nuremburg principles equal justice and dignity for the individual. Network news equals conscious war-crimes complicity. And McCaffrey is a typically key operative involved in domestic and international policies of the U.S. that can only rightly be considered sadism in action. And he dares show his face and flaunt his corruption.

    Love,

    News Nag

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