In a nutshell: Cassel nails the administration's lies

After 5 years, you would think authors and journalists would be starting to put the pieces together, noting trends, patterns, habits, and talking about how Plame and Medicare are related. How global warming and Iraq are related.....

Haven't seen the quintessential article yet, but we're getting there. Krugman does well. And this article from Counterpunch sums up the dishonesty pretty well too. Here's hoping there will be more (lifting bottle of Negro Modelo) and that the big picture goes mainstream.

Libby's Lies
A Moment of Truth

By ELAINE CASSEL

Why is it that these Republicans choose not to embrace the truth, and telling the truth, as a revered "family value" or American "virtue"? It's because lying is part and parcel of their overarching policy--a policy that is to its core, aggressive, yet weak, self-serving and subversive, manipulative, and antisocial.

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In fact, one would be hard-pressed to find much of anything Bush has told the truth about in the past five years. I could fill an encyclopedia with the lies told day in and day out. Lies which are repeated to us as the truth by the lying press.

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The Bush administration, and its loyal followers who fill the airwaves with their venal lies, know that as long as we accept the lies we are in chains. We cannot be free.

And chained we are. As good as Bush and company are at lying to us, we are better at lying to ourselves. Sigmund Freud's word for that was "denial" Americans are in denial in order to spare themselves the painful truth that we have a liar at the helm of the world's superpower. The liar not only hires liars, he lauds them, as Bush did Libby, as a great American.

and more at http://counterpunch.com/cassel10312005.html

That's the story that needs to be on Meet the Press. The patterns, the continual deliberate dishonesty, and where we are because of it. Indictments may or may not be the avenue into this larger story...it's hard to say. But I can see in the paper and on the talk shows that there is a large effort to focus on the indictments or lack of them as the whole picture. And there's a concerted effort to compartmentalize the scandals and issues so that the pattern is obscured and people forget.

There may be no more indictments. Trials may be delayed for years. There may be large distractions from other news. Pardons may be handed down, regardless of political fallout. So I hope that the underlying story stays in the news and in people's minds. Because this administration has lied to every single American about matters of critical importance. This should be easy for pundits to talk about. It should be easy to find ourselves, all of us, freepers too, on the same side against those who are threatening truth and democracy every day. Here's hoping (bottle empty).

The truth be damned.

...I sometime wonder if he can tell the truth.
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The Corporate Media isn't going to call him on it. Even though I think some of the journalists might want to. The truth is that the reThugs want to win and to hell with the ethics.

The American Public seems to be too distracted to care. Unless we can wake the sheeple, a dictatorship will form that will make Stalinist Russia look benevolent by comparison.

If we fail: the rest of the world will have to join together in a grand alliance to stop the fascists, or be subjugated one by one.

Then the flame of Democracy will be extinguished for untold generations...and we will have only ourselves to blame...