January 28, 2008
Please, Pretty Please!
Yesterday: Ah, yet another morning when toothpaste stuck in my craw, due to NPR, a radio station that used to broadcast the news. Oh well. They did a piece this morning on Bush's anticipated State of the Union address tonight, taking us on a trip down memory lane, pointing out some of the 935 lies that have been embedded in previous SOUs -- you know the lies that Dennis Kuchinich cannot mention on the floor of the House.
The part that caused such distress was the wrap up "You can hear the speech at 9 PM tonight or go to NPR.org where we will be blogging and FACT CHECKING [capitals mine for outrage] the President's remarks. Where have your frigging fact checkers been since the year 2000, pray tell?
Today: True to their word at NPR, here's the fact check, which was predictably, full of the usual fudged facts. This feature is seven years too late.
Why isn't NPR (and every damn network news organization in the USofA) reporting on the FISA filibuster that's happening on the floor of the Senate right now? The Bush administration is doing it's damndest to strip away every American's constitutional right to privacy and legalize wholesale government surveillance.
I know, you don't care because you aren't doing anything wrong, right? Neither were most of those six million Jews when a fascist dictatorship was being put into place.
Guess we'll hear about this in the news a few years from now - or maybe not, since, by then, all the media will have been coopted by vested interests.
Photo note: Vases in the window of a Budapest antique shop. We would like to think the girls are pleading for you to pay attention.