While scanning the media sights tonight I found several examples of busco lies. Not unusual, you say..ahhh more after the break!
You see the difference in these stories is the way they are covered. Without actually coming out and saying "LIAR" the media is definitely taking a better look at some of the things we have been screaming about for the past five years. Here are a few examples:
On Iraq...
Newsweek questions the validity of the Pentagon's claim that they got the #2 man in Iraq. Now while this is a standing joke here at dkos 'how many #2's or 3's are there?' it seems to have finally penetrated the msm. Read the story here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9518556/site/newsweek/
NBC reports on a commander who is backpeddling on 'winning the war and drawing down troop levels' In light of Bush's Rose Garden speech today warning us about increased violence prior to the constitution vote a top commander talks about uncertainty. Read the story here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9521347/
On hurricanes...
Supposedly everything went so well with FEMA's response to Rita...not everyone seems to think so. Read about it here.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9519307/
Of course we've been getting mixed messages about the energy 'non-crisis'. First word out was the typical 'we dodged the bullit' song and dance and then Bushie stumbles all over himself to promote some kind of convoluted conservation plan. Well read this and you'll begin to understand why.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9519307/
With Brownie's stellar performance throughout Katrina and then again yesterday, someone decided to check on what other positions in this administration have been given to political hacks rather than qualified people. The word crony is being used with a lot of frequency lately Here's one example.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/28/bush.cronyism/index.html
Yes the msm is still taking baby steps, but when you watch Scottie's pressers these days you are more likely to be pleasantly surprised than absolutely disgusted and when you see The Hammer's face plastered with the word Indicted on the web page of every news outlet followed by the story of Frist's little romp around the stock market it does give one pause. Is this really the beginning of the end for the neocons, the right wingers and religious right with their sickening control of our America? We can only hope. Maybe I'm looking at the glass half full, but in the past few weeks it really does seem like we're turning the corner--not the one in Iraq, but the one that brings us back to the America we once knew where government served the people and not the other way around. Let's keep hoping and let's keep pushing. I have great expectations for 2006.