Mainstream Media Trying to Cover Up Failure
Letter to Editor,
Editorial page, Lexington Herald-Leader,
published June 25, 2005,
with accompanying political cartoon
by Tom Toles of the Washington Post (*see note below)
Headline
Mainstream Media Trying to Cover Up Failure
In regard to the Downing Street memos, the liberal media prove once again that they are not credible.
The memo tells us what many already knew: President Bush misled us into war, knew that the intelligence was cooked and, by inference, was simply lying when he repeatedly affirmed that war was the last resort.
Now The Washington Post, the Los Angles Times and The New York Times are telling us that the memos are not news because those papers knew all along what Bush was doing.
The fact is that none of the supposedly liberal media told us that or even challenged Bush at the time. In fact, the White House line that the Iraqi war was justified was repeated without critique in the liberal media.
Now the medla say the news from British intelligence memos that Prime Minister Tony Blair and Bush had been planning the war since 2002 and that intelligence would need to be rigged to justify war is not news.
That is simply vast butt-covering.
If Democrats and progressives want something to be mad about, it should be the continued butt-covering by the mainstream media.
They still continue to downplay the memos, which could be the first legal proof that President Bush treasonously lied to the American people and cost us thousand of lives and billions of dollars with no foreseeable end in sight.
If this can be proved, what we have is political malfeasance that would make the "impeachable " behavior of former presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon look like kindergarten high jinks.
Don't count on finding any appropriate information in today's mainstream corporate media.
Paschal Baute
*Note: Tom Toles Cartoon appropriately selected by editorial editor shows a newspaper page of classified section, with, in the corner, the words: "Correction. The Downing St. memo seems to be at odds with pretty much everything you remember seeing in the media in the run up to the Iraqi war. Your memory is in error. We regret your mistake."
The only thing the cartoonist did not add (maybe his editor deleted it) was
"Signed: The mainstream corporate media."
Editorial page, Lexington Herald-Leader,
published June 25, 2005,
with accompanying political cartoon
by Tom Toles of the Washington Post (*see note below)
Headline
Mainstream Media Trying to Cover Up Failure
In regard to the Downing Street memos, the liberal media prove once again that they are not credible.
The memo tells us what many already knew: President Bush misled us into war, knew that the intelligence was cooked and, by inference, was simply lying when he repeatedly affirmed that war was the last resort.
Now The Washington Post, the Los Angles Times and The New York Times are telling us that the memos are not news because those papers knew all along what Bush was doing.
The fact is that none of the supposedly liberal media told us that or even challenged Bush at the time. In fact, the White House line that the Iraqi war was justified was repeated without critique in the liberal media.
Now the medla say the news from British intelligence memos that Prime Minister Tony Blair and Bush had been planning the war since 2002 and that intelligence would need to be rigged to justify war is not news.
That is simply vast butt-covering.
If Democrats and progressives want something to be mad about, it should be the continued butt-covering by the mainstream media.
They still continue to downplay the memos, which could be the first legal proof that President Bush treasonously lied to the American people and cost us thousand of lives and billions of dollars with no foreseeable end in sight.
If this can be proved, what we have is political malfeasance that would make the "impeachable " behavior of former presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon look like kindergarten high jinks.
Don't count on finding any appropriate information in today's mainstream corporate media.
Paschal Baute
*Note: Tom Toles Cartoon appropriately selected by editorial editor shows a newspaper page of classified section, with, in the corner, the words: "Correction. The Downing St. memo seems to be at odds with pretty much everything you remember seeing in the media in the run up to the Iraqi war. Your memory is in error. We regret your mistake."
The only thing the cartoonist did not add (maybe his editor deleted it) was
"Signed: The mainstream corporate media."
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