An ABC News report last Friday revealed that King George, as well as top officials in the administration, knew of and approved torture of detainees.
How may papers made this front page news? How many major media networks made this a leading story (or even a story at all)? None. Not a damn one.
The “leader of the free world” has admitted to a callous disregard for international law and human decency, and the abdication of the values America stands for, and the corporate owned media doesn’t make any issue out of it.
It will take me a lot of effort to not punch the next person who dares to say we have a “liberal media.”
Meanwhile, last week, at the AP press conference in which the Presidential candidates appeared in order to be grilled by the press, Obama got treated to being called “Obama bin Laden” (seriously) and McCain was given, by the press, a box of his favorite doughnuts with sprinkles.
Liberal media my fucking ass.
Bush can admit his authorization of torture all he wants, because he knows no one in the Justice Department is going to investigate and prosecute. They’ve as much as said that the administration is above the law when Congress demanded two of its members be prosecuted for contempt of Congress for ignoring a summons to appear.
Amerika uber alles!
Update: Upon further reflection I thought of a better way to sign off. You may recognize these words:
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government….”
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