Watching CNN Sunday night, with the manifestly unqualified Carol Lin doing the cyclical news items thing. An announcement says a story coming up on "scandals in the White House".
Any reasonable person then prepares themselves for a story on Plamegate. What appears on the screen? A story on scandals in the CLINTON White House of 4 1/2 years ago, with Lin licking her chops about the 'good stuff' contained in ex-FBI chief Louis Freeh's accusations against Clinton.
And not a SINGLE WORD about the scandal presently engulfing the White House and freaking its occupants our like the trapped rats they are.
Could anything be more transparently diversionary?
Could anything be more pathetically set-up to prepare the public for the big time indictments coming down the line and disembowelling the Bush administration? Could it be more obvious, their gambit this time - to create again the phony moral equivalency, to get the folk thinking "Well, they're all corrupt, Clinton had some scandals too, all the presidents have, these new indictments ain't no different..." Yep, they're trying to get out in front of this the best they can.
And what do they have? Freeh claimed Clinton had a lot of 'skeletons' in his closet...Freeh claimed he asked foe money from Saudis...claimed Clinton didn't take terrorism seriously enough...yes, yes, folks, what they're implying is that 9-11 WAS Clinton's fault.
Ho-hum. That the best they can do? That's "news"? That's supposed to make us ignore the indictments coming down and slamming Rove's ass into prison? I don't think so. Try the other one, guys.
But more appalling is the fact CNN presents such shit - just as they bandwagoned for the war - just as they served as an unquestioning mouthpiece for the Swift Boat Liars...even as Bush's polls sink to subterranean levels, even as his war is a bleeding pointless gash, even as he's being fingered in this scandal about to boil over, they're still carrying water, still trying to indict Clinton...
Okay, we all understand. The media can't tell the truth, because to do so would be to reveal their own collusion in the lies that got the war under way. So they keep spinning, hoping to keep their guy in power - for if his corrupt dishonesty is exposed then so is theirs'. As long as he can escape justice, so will they. Thus the media has to do what they can to prop up Mr. 37 % Man, even as the people have turned their backs on him.
This relates as well to the curious silence of the New York Times regarding Plamegate...except for their occasional comparison of Judy Miller to Martin Luther King, of course.
All that's revealed, in the end, beyond the fact that Louis Freeh hates Bill Clinton, is the complicity of the media with their dark overlords. All that is revealed is that if we reach the verdict that Rove, et al, are guilty of treason, of conspiring aagainst the American people, betraying their sacred duty and sacrificing their safety in order to consolidate power and push ahead their political agenda, we must say the same of CNN, and the New York Times. Far from being ashamed of their part in this disgraceful episode, they want to push ahead with more lies and misrepresentations.
It's enough to make any decent person puke. If democracy depends on a well-informed populace, we see how these sickening traitors betray democracy on a daily basis. We see, as in the case of the Democrats who voted for Bush's war, that no recovery is possible for America until the former positions of these turncoats are completely renounced, or they themselves are swept from their positions of power.
It's up to them - to make the change now while they have the choice - later will be too late.