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This last week in political news it has been another exciting foray into the ongoing battle between the liberal Pressdanistas and the United States government. A week of nonsense concerning the Vice President and a hunting accident where the Washington Pressdanistas got themselves up in a righteous frothing madness over the fact that VP Cheney didn't immediately notify the New York Times of the incident. Amazing. In that week a Hamas has been preparing to take over the government in Palestine amid great interenational worry and consternation, a number of the escaped terrorists in Yemen, including Jamal Badawi, mastermind of the Oct. 12 2000 bombing attack on the USS Cole in which 17 US sailors perished - were captured, struggles in Congress over the reauthorization of the Patriot Act have gone forward and it's not looking good for libraries,the Bill of Rights and freedoms in general, nearly 2000 men women and children were killed in a mudsline in the Philippines, Author David Irving an English historian and general right wing looney, is on trial in Austria for the thoughtcrime of denying the holoucast and could get 19 years for it, people are still dying over cartoons and bird flu is on the march, killing untold numbers of chickens, swans, ducks and about five people. Each one of these stories is worthy of attention and a certain level of outrage and moral indignation. But to spend all of this time over a hunting accident where the VP shoots his friend with some birdshot is really a new low in the lack of civic responsibility and moral responsibilty that the press has to all of us.
Now it goes without saying that members of the press, like members of the government, all think they know what is good for us and what we should worry about but in this case it's a bit of a personal grudge against Cheney for not 'being more accessable' to them. Really, they are upset since they have been used to belittling the Vice President whoever he might be as long as he's a Republican. With Cheney they haven't been able to lay a glove on him and it knaws at their souls. Really, who could care less. There are actual stories out there to be put on the cover of Newsweek and Time. Something besides Dick Cheney and 'sex and the 40 something baby boomer' - but we won't get the real news, the stuff that really matters. Not as long as there is a breath left in Brittney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise and the other of fake news stories for FOX, CNN and the morning news shows to pimp. Oh geez, why bother.
Posted by gilbert davis
at 9:41 PM EST