Alterman: Slacker Friday

The Commission Confirms…
It sounds entirely self-serving to say so, but the 9/11 commission report confirms in detail virtually everything I wrote about the administration’s response to the attack in The Book on Bush, which was written for the most part, last Summer.  I point this out because, as should be obvious, I am no Sy Hersh.  I was able to piece together what happened through openly available sources that appeared in corners of the media but were never picked up by the SCLM or deemed worthy of discussion by the Sunday morning poohbahs or Cable TV scream fests.

The fact is, virtually nobody in the media wanted to face the truth back then: the administration’s response to the attack was—as is just about everything it does—incompetent, ideologically driven, and dishonestly defended.  It was not a case of Divine Intervention as Tim Russert actually posited on “Meet the Press” and we were not fortunate that the Supreme Court intervened to put its boy in the presidency as the New York Times argued in a news story at the time.  Oh and yes, the kinds of people who ignore the truth about this administration in the service of self-serving myths not only of competence, but heroism, are not liberals.  Orwell would not even have gone that far.  Nobody would have bought it.

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