This is one of my old "hobbies." To point out the obvious, as long as "We the people..." accept and give legitimacy to the "stars" in the mainstream American media, who spent 8 years providing cover and justifying the crimes of the Bush administration, very little will change in this country.
Glenn Greenwald writes:
"Now that the sheer criminality of this conduct...has exploded into mainstream political debates as a result of the OLC memos, media stars are forced to address it. Exactly as one would expect, they are closing ranks, demanding (as always) that their big powerful political-official-friends and their elite institutions not be subject to the dirty instruments that are meant only for the masses -- things like the rule of law, investigations, prosecutions, and accountability when they abuse their power."
More follows...
These quotes he cites next, are simply disgusting:
"Gloria Borger on Karl Rove:
When Rove speaks, the political class pays attention -- usually with good reason.
Chuck Todd on Obama's concession that the DOJ decides whether to prosecute:
There does seem to be a little bit of a reaction to how this was received on the left. . . frankly this feels like a political food fight now. . .. The hard left, the hard right, fighting over this in the blogosphere.
Chris Matthews on the same topic:
This whole torture debate is likely to tell us a lot about the kind of president Barack Obama intends to be. Will he buckle to the left, the netroots, and pursue an investigation into torture having said he didn't want to? Or will he go post-partisan and leave the past to the historians?
David Gregory on what he calls (with scare quotes) "the politics of the 'torture' debate":
What [Obama officials] got on their hands is a highly politicized and very partisan issue about the treatment of 9/11 prisoners. . . At a time when the administration and the President will already be under scrutiny for being tough enough, is this a fight they really want to have?"
Link:
http://www.salon.com/...
The elite media defends their own participation in the crimes perpetrated during the last 8 years in the United States, make no mistake about it. Which other country would allow criminally ignorant "talking heads" to continue working in the airwaves after having enabled and rationalized torture and a war based on false pretenses, distortions and outright lies?