Joe Conason asks a couple of good questions:
Are Americans so jaded about the deceptions perpetrated by our own government to lead us into war in Iraq that we are no longer interested in fresh and damning evidence of those lies? Or are the editors and producers who oversee the American news industry simply too timid to report that proof on the evening broadcasts and front pages?
There is a 'smoking memo' that confirms the worst assumptions about the Bush administration's Iraq policy, but although that memo generated huge pre-election headlines in Britain, its existence has hardly been mentioned here.
Now I don't claim to speak for all Americans (if I did then we never would have had this shit-for-brains jackass as a president, and "Angel" would still be on the air), but I can confidently say that yes, I'm completely jaded about this government. It's not so much that I'm not interested in the new evidence, as it is that it's old news by now. It's been obvious for a long, long, time that Dubya was going to invade Iraq come hell or high water, justification or no justification. The latest revelations are just details.
Having said that, I don't have a clue what the problem is with the news industry. You would think that this would be a big story-- it's got lies, death, a huge price tag. Maybe they see this as old news, too. Maybe it's because Democrats aren't making a stink about it. Maybe it's because they're too busy camped out at the Michael Jackson trial or chasing would-be brides across the country. Maybe they're chicken. Maybe it's easier to sell boner pills when they're covering Laura Bush joking about her husband jerking off a horse. I don't know.
grrr...argh...
Posted by Jason at May 8, 2005 01:30 PM