PittsburghThoughts

Oh hell, I can't find the right adjectives or clever phrases to describe the type of complicity that I see going on between the press and the White House. "Crash and burn" are secondary results. The republican war machine, the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil White House imbedded reporters, the few who do speak up, but never dare expose the true nature of the beast, these are just the tip of an iceberg that only begins to melt when the truth becomes too apparent to deny.

The press reports that the surge is working because: if they don't, some nasty, indignant republican will question their patriotism and you know, in America today, having your patriotism questioned by a lobbyist controlled, money grubbing, corrupt, non-military-serving republican is the kiss of death.

Networks and new shows have to play soft ball but call it hard ball to get the interviews, after all, they're competing with a cadre of other pandering networks and reporters, all eager to spread the company line. They can't allow dissidents, unless they present them as whacked out lefties, socialists, out to destroy society but paying a living wage or making health coverage affordable. The ones that aren't afraid to speak, like Keith Olbermann are rare but still forced to intermingle Britney Spears throughout the brew. 

When people do get to see the "Bush the bungler," stories, they're presented as our own ongoing, national, situation comedy show, replete with comedic clarinet music playing; whaw, whaw, whaw, whaw every time one of those cute malapropisms roll off his lips or when he shit his pants in public, or when he forgets and sits in the White House driveway licking his balls.

It was barely reported here that the British, who were, at the very least, hesitant about becoming involved in our war, could rest assured because, "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Hence the lethal, highly incriminating Downing Street Memo became nothing more that a vague curiosity. A covert CIA officer working to "discover solid intelligence for senior policymakers on Iraq's presumed weapons-of-mass-destruction program" is outed by THE WHITE HOUSE and the press behaves like meek on-lookers, afraid to get involved.

We love this because what Bush really is, is too hard to fathom. Could we really have elected and then re-elected him? Or, more likely, sat idly by while he stole two elections? Our compliancy makes us accomplices and we refuse to incriminate ourselves in either case. Our conscience is clear because ... just because. We say all the right things, what else does the world expect, that we should stop bombing innocent people? Come on.

I'm not a billion dollar industry set in place as an insurance policy against the truth, I'm just a blogger, take it for what it's worth.  Gene