Last weekend journalists expressed their outrage over the WSJ editorial that suggested the NTY acted on treasonous motives in publishing the SWIFT story. NYT columist Paul Krugman gets it.
But anyone who was genuinely shocked by The Journal's willingness to play the treason card must not have been paying attention these past five years.
For years, the MSM treated anyone who publicly criticized the Republican regime in Washington as a shrill Bush-basher. At the same time, the MSM winked while the Washington cabal and its operatives in the press attacked the patriotism of those who opposed the agenda of right-wing conservatism. This is what the press is beginning to awaken to:
Over the last few months a series of revelations have confirmed what should have been obvious a long time ago: the Bush administration and the movement it leads have been engaged in an authoritarian project, an effort to remove all the checks and balances that have heretofore constrained the executive branch.
In addition to shrugging off congressional oversight by acting in secrecy, sidestepping inconvenient laws, and subverting the most important protections provided by the bill of rights,
an almost equally important aspect of the project has been the attempt to create a political environment in which nobody dares to criticize the administration or reveal inconvenient facts about its actions.
Paul Krugman has been the consistent voice of reason within the MSM that has otherwise served primarily to enable the right-wing Republican regime throughout its relentless quest for greater, and unchecked, power. Thank you Mr. Krugman, for your clarity.