Yet again, the
Falange is
accusing the media of pre-meditated sabotage of US foreign policy. Never mind the shameless reversion to post hoc ergo propter hoc, never mind the obvious culpability of Newsweek's fallible sources (though that was deemed a sufficient excuse for Colin Powell's reputation-destroying display at the UN), never mind the layer-on-layer racism of the right blogosphere's innumerable insults, threats, and disparagements directed at Islam and the Muslim world that render the false disgust at a beflushed Koran transparent and characteristically dishonest. Newsweek is the public enemy of the day; Newsweek must be destroyed, coopted, incorporated, and utterly castrated as it is subsumed into the Republican (PF) ruling regime.
They seek to politicize the truth around themselves. Their willing agents gleefully make war on reality by lynching any representation of it that impedes on their pre-fab worldview. As Bill Moyers has said repeatedly, the reason that he, one lone man against their vast machine of power, arouses such anger is that he doesn't bow to them and confirm their twisted reality, and just one anomaly of truth is too much to be tolerated.
But I don't care about Newsweek. I would be just as happy to see the fiends of hell overrun its fortress, rape its women and enslave its children. You won't catch me on the parapet shooting down at the onrushing hordes. Because the media is already foregone; it has already acceded to the Republican representation of untruth as truth. The lynching of Newsweek is irrelevant, a mere (further) confirmation of the fact that the freedom of the press is dead because it committed suicide. These contemptible so-called journalists, enablers and outright agents of a demonic force, do not stand up for themselves, so why should I stand up for them?
These fatuous arbiters of truth did not purge Judith Miller from their midst, even as she escorted lies and violent death into their assembly to rapturous applause. These self-worshipping puppies hide behind a fiction of journalistic integrity as they shield the identity of a confidential White House source who must be laughing in silence for the number of times he has deluged them with lies and they keep coming back for more. These mere bankrupt shells of a former humanity express an unforgiveable girlish trepidation at questioning the President or any of his kennel. These corrupt hangers-on of a removed Washington elite refuse to report on the true extent of our federal trainwreck, whether it be at the Treasury, the Pentagon, or in Baghdad, because they claim no one cares.
I don't give a shit about the media and I am perfectly happy to watch the truth be flushed away along with those who failed to defend it and prevent its debasement. The principles of the press are simply not worth fighting for if the press itself is not worth fighting for. It has generally been the province of liberals to uphold the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights in the face of a strongly hostile wind. Never before have those freedoms been so hollow in the application. It is tragic to watch the slow, inevitable foundering of a once-great edifice, but it does not serve us or our cause to shore it up because it is sinking with the gleeful masochism of those who enthusiastically hack at its foundation from within.