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Apr. 11th, 2008 | 05:13 pm

President Bush says he knew and approved of the torturing of prisoners.

An astonishing admission; a horrifying admission. The country was stunned and cries for impeachment were deafening.

The last sentence is a lie of course. Nobody cared. Outside of ABC, which carried the interview in which the admission was made, the media paid no attention.

The top stories on Google News were:
GE Plunges as Profit Misses Estimates, Clinton proposes 10,0000 new police officers, Is Windows Getting Morbidly Obese? Masters leader Immelman finds form after health scare, US, Germany Urge Chinese Transparency in Tibet, polygamists, canceled air flights, and, of course, The naked truth about Dick Cheney's sunglasses.

Yahoo! News was no better: Gates says Iran boosts support for militias, Bushes pay taxes on $923,807, Top aide to al-Sadr assassinated in Iraq, Polygamist sect encouraged fear, blah, blah, blah.

And so it goes. Our king approves torture and the country yawns.

A sick nation.

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radconbob

Again, Are you Surrprised

from: [info]radconbob
date: Apr. 12th, 2008 03:37 am (UTC)
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Fox News has taught us we like Media to tell us what we believe is true. When we present evidence of that lie is is called bias. Real news is biased by the fact it is true. We live in a bad time when the truth is bias. Our response is to pick things where truth is irrelevent.

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rdeck

Re: Again, Are you Surrprised

from: [info]rdeck
date: Apr. 14th, 2008 10:01 pm (UTC)
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While the pundits ponder bitter Barack, Bush's admission that he okayed torture is invisible in the corporate media.

I report, you decide whether the corporate media is full of shit.

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