More Kenneth Starrs to the rescue. Oh boy!
Posted by peter at April 12, 2008 07:03 PMit really is not so complicated, why abu grahb did not light our american fire, as it should have.
the media are the gatekeepers for information we read or see ,or do not read or do not see,
and
they are the gatekeeper-as-interpreter for how we interpret things we read and things we see - torture included.
unfortunately, most reporters or media opinion "artists" are employees of an organization.
they value their job, status, and pay,
and the organization values it's survival and growth,
more than either value the "national interest" or "the truth".
gedanken experiment:
try to imagine wapo's resident, career-serving, nitwit of a media critic, howie kurtz,
discussing either the concept of "national interest with respect to political reporting" or that of "the truth with respect to national reporting"
re, for example, torture.
see what i mean?
or wolf blitzer, or george will, or david brooks, or pumpkin head, or gail collins, or tweetie, or richard cohen...
Posted by orionATL at April 12, 2008 07:14 PMAnd to think some poor e-3,4 and 5's did time in Leavenworth and had their lives destroyed for that POS!
Posted by Seven of Six at April 12, 2008 09:08 PMSoS, Lyndie England deserves to be in jail. In a recent interview I heard on Rachel Maddow, she said the only thing she regretted was getting caught. It's obvious now that Bushco had a plan from the beginning, and the best way to fill those billets at Abu Ghraib, was to find sociopaths in the lower ranks who enjoy that sort of thing, with the express purpose of having them take the fall. It's pretty much the only plan they had that worked properly, since the "steal the oil while chaos reigned" thing got out of their control.
Too bad no one's gonna do anything about it. Everyone's too busy fighting about "math" and shit.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 13, 2008 07:54 AMWaterboarding is not torture.
Posted by lt2 at April 13, 2008 01:15 PM