Right-On Edit-Boston Globe---BUSH, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE---

JAMES CARROLL
Bush, lies, and videotape
By James Carroll | March 6, 2006

IF GEORGE W. BUSH were a character in a novel or a play, last week might have been the turning point in the narrative. He was shown on film being explicitly warned, just hours before Hurricane Katrina hit, that the levees in New Orleans were vulnerable.

But everyone knows that after the levees broke, he denied having been warned that such a thing was possible. The broadcast of the film amounted to a terrible epiphany: The president seemed caught in a lie. Grave questions had already been raised about his administration's manipulations of the truth, especially in relation to the war in Iraq. Does the truth matter in America any more?

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Even a character flaw presumes a depth of character that the president seems to lack. What interior conflict can there be for a man who attributes all failures, all mistakes, all crimes to those around him, as if he himself (alone of all humans) is blameless? Where there is no capacity for shame, there is none for insight, much less transformation. Without the secret struggle against the self, there can be no drama, only pathos.

As for us, the beholders of this narrative, there can be no suspension of disbelief, no identification, and no recognition of our own fate being rescued by a confrontation with the truth. On the contrary, since this is not literature but life, there is only the increased awareness of the danger into which the world is plunged by having such a hollow creature in the position of ultimate power.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/03/06/bush_lies_and_videotape/

Simple and hits the nail right on the head!

It's great to have it. It's great that the truth is getting out. And it's great that people are putting the pieces together.

But where was the Globe pre-election? Where were they pre-Iraq? Where were they when stuff like this would have made a difference, rather than just being a great example of hindsight?

sigh.

we in such deep shit. But what should they do now? Keep quiet? Because that's the ONLY alternative to saying anything now.

> But where was the Globe pre-election? Where were they pre-Iraq?

The Globe was busy marking-down peace demonstration attendence
numbers from the tens-of-thousands we knew were there to the
"hundreds" that they reported. They were also busy denying
that they even *KNEW* about the demos even after I presented
phone records showing I'd called their newsroom well ahead
of time to ensure that they'd be covering the demos.

The Globe is just another corporate newspaper. If they're
editorializing against Bush now, its just a sign that he's
causing them to lose ad revenue as their advertizers go
belly-up in the Bushworld economy.

Tesha

The thrust of the argument in the editorial is whether bush has enough self awareness to even know whether he has been caught in a lie. I wonder. I think he does and is evil. The writer thinks he does not, because he is too stupid.