On a day when the Congress provided a long overdue rebuke - a "non-binding resolution" against the Bush White House's determination to escalate the Iraq war.... and Senate Republicans had to rely on the FILIBUSTER to OBSTRUCT even debate on the war in that body; the WASHINGTON POST and NEW YORK TIMES predictably COME RUSHING TO BUSH's assistance, offering up their typical whitewash of events and public outrage over the administration's abysmal leadership and underhanded political tactics.
First, the Dean of the Washington Press corpse, DAVID BRODER, writes his oh-so respectable editorial, "Bush Regains his footing." What does Broder care that the LIBBY TRIAL proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only did President Bush and Vice President Cheney ORCHESTRATE the "outing" of an undercover CIA operative (Mrs. Valerie Plame Wilson) in an effort to discredit and intimidate her husband, but that Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, and their ENTIRE senior White House staff worked furiously TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE by lying to the FBI investigation into the illegal outing in an attempt to hush the facts before the 2004 outcome. WE REMIND the august Mr. Broder that Bill Clinton was IMPEACHED for "lying," and investor Martha Stewart was CONVICTED for "lying," but not only did the Bush-Cheney White House illegally "out" an undercover CIA operative, but they LIED and OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE in an effort to win the 2004 election.
THAT's FINE with Mr. Broder and his superiors at the Washington Post!
Next, the Post publishes an op-ed by resident neo-con apologist HOWARD KURTZ about MICHELLE MALKIN, a Right-Wing instigator only slightly less insipid and racist than than MICHAEL SAVAGE and ANN COULTER:
Kurtz writes:
<< Plenty of folks find Malkin's rhetoric overheated as well. "The donkey party," she wrote last fall, "is led by thumb-sucking demagogues in prominent positions who equate Bush with Hitler and Jim Crow, call him a liar in front of high school students and the world, fantasize about impeachment and fetishize the human rights of terrorists who want to kill me. Put simply: There are no grown-ups in the Democrat Party." >>
Well, President Bush IS a liar - as recounted immediately above - and more to the point, the WASHINGTON POST had NO problem calling former President Clinton "A LIAR," and giving voice (editorial space, and screaming front-page headlines) to EVERY Republican leader in 1998 who demanded PRESIDENT CLINTON's IMPEACHMENT - for "lying"!
Finally, over at the Sulzberger-owned neo-con NEW YORK TIMES, the Times publishes this misleading headline (at least on their on-line site): "IRANIAN WEAPONS IN IRAQ."
ONLY on further inspection, do you see that the blaring statement is under a "Q. & A." headline
Clearly, the NEW YORK TIMES believes that the United States has more right to supply BILLIONS in arms and weapons to Israel, than Iran has to supply any weapons to Iran. But more to the point... WHERE IS THE NEW YORK TIME's OUTRAGE at SAUDI FUNDING of insurgents ("terrorists") in Iraq??
Answer: NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. Just as the New York Times REFUSES to make VOTE MACHINE FRAUD, missing billions of taxpayers funds, the entire trillion-dollar Bush-Republican deficits, Vice President Cheney's CONTINUING PAYMENTS from Halliburton corp., and the Bush family's TIES TO ENRON (or other war-profiting companies) as deserving of front-page attention.
The New York Times and Washignton Post: RELENTLESSLY MAKING molehills out of Bush-Republican SCANDALS, and MOUNTAINS ouf of Democratic NON-scandals.
('The White House "TRASHING" scandal' was AN ENTIRELY MANUFACTURED SCANDAL without ONE photograph of evidence, while the Post and Times efforts to make the "LINCOLN BEDROOM" into a "MAJOR SCANDAL" now seems farcical, if the affects were not so deadly serious.)
NY Times: "IRANIAN WEAPONS IN IRAQ" misleading story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/world/middleeast/17answers.html
Washington Post's HOWARD KURTZ portrays race-baiting right-wing anti-Constitution jihadist MICHELLE MALKIN as an innocent bystander:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021502065_pf.html
Washington Post's old grey pundit DAVID BRODER _ignores_ evidence from Libby trial that Bush White House orchestrated the EXPOSURE of an undercover CIA agent, then LIED to FBI agents investigating the crime, then OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE of the on-going investigation in hopes the WASHINGTO POST and other newspapers would give the adminstration a FREE PASS on the scandal past the November 2004 election...
Bush Regains His Footing
Friday, February 16, 2007; Page A23
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501271.html
Bonus: the British "ECONOMIST" magazine cover portrays black, bat-winged US B2 bomber over map of Iran with issue headline "IRAN NEXT STOP?" in Bush/neo-con march to expanding wars....
