Because i am heading for a meeting of the Sussex Cty for Kerry issues committe in Rehoboth Beach shortly, and because it brings together so many disparate cries and whispers that are currently drifting around the internet, the alternative press, even sometimes the aboveground press, NPR, etc. in a way that i never could - i'm interrupting my Texas journey chronicles to ask you to read yesterday's TomDispatch column. you should, of course, read him EVERY day, but yesterday's really will make your hair stand on end. i tried to post the column here, to make it easier for people to read it, but i finally went beyond the 25,000 character limit because of all the terrific links in the column.
the administration is trying to distract us from all this by making things like a Federal Marriage Amendment seem like important news. americans can't be this stupid, can we? (don't answer that!!) homosexual people who care about each other and want to throw in their lives with one another legally aren't what is dividing and disturbing the fabric of this country.
and to think i used to sneer at conspiracy theorists.
2 comments:
Yep, Bush is getting nervous!
V
Thanks for the terrific link. I firmly believe future historians will be amazed at the media control during Bush W.'s reign. From the Florida vote fiasco (Gore would have won the state-wide recount) to the Iraqi war build-up to today's overt downplaying of the war's chaos (it's certainly become backpage news in my local newspaper), the American corporately-owned media has been complicit in foisting this pseudo-President and his agenda upon the American people. Many years ago a journalist friend bridled when I used the term "free press." He responded: "There's no such thing as a free press. They're all owned by someone." My advice: reader beware. In the meantime, thanks again for bringing Tom's Dispatch to my attention.
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