Sep 02 2007
Alberto Gonzales: Who CARES!!
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“For although our President has lied and destroyed three countries during his term, it is irrelevant shit like this Gonzales scandal that gives the Congress, the press and the deluded a sense of justice.”
By Jonathan Lenglain
9/2/07
Who decides when there’s a scandal? It can’t be us regular folk, for although we can stage the largest political protests in world history denouncing the lies of an American President (like those on Feb. 15th, 2003, according to Guinness,) there has yet to be a fire as far as the media establishment can see. For all the talk about a failed presidency among today’s journalists and broadcasters, no major media outlet actually investigated the lies of this administration and conclusively settled the issue. No major newspaper or news program yelled “fire!”
Thankfully, some of us do shriek and blister in an inferno, and those who see dishonesty as a grave crime did just that before the white-hot lies of the White House. Those lies included the link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, the false claim that Iraq could harm the UK within minutes, or that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But despite the unprecedented scale of public protest, no headlines in the style of yellow journalism reading “SCANDAL!!: PRESIDENT MISLEADS AMERICA” were to be found.