Fire! Polite Applause

Once Again a Terrorist is Tortured Into Telling Whoppers. 

So how did Big Media play this story? They tried having it both ways naturally. They politely applauded, then went back to dining on roast Britney and warmed over Anna Nicole. For instance, the day the story broke, NBC News led with a report about Alberto Gonzales, followed that up with something forgettable, maybe another ho-hum death-dealing car-bomb attack in our mind-numbing war in Iraq, then played the story about the KSM masterminding 9/11 and some 30 other crimes third! in the evening news report. 

So what else is new? As I wrote in my March 22 column for Knoxville Voice, "I found it amusing when ABC News told us on March 13--as if breaking a major investigation--how a man codenamed Curveball convinced our government that Saddam possessed mobile labs for making anthrax. Many of us had commented on such lies for years, not only about Curveball, but also about other Iraqi stooges that lured us into this quagmire in Iraq. Listen up. The following should be a mantra.

"Much of our pre-war intelligence came from three sources.

"A man code-named Curveball, who we bribed.

"A man named Chalibi, who conned us.

"And a man named al-Libi, who we tortured into telling lies."

I can prove the truth of the entire mantra, which I document in the Voice article, to any reasonable jury, and this is what the American public ideally should be, in a manner of speaking. Unfortunately, major media have been complicit in duping the jury by applauding politely as the courthouse of international norms burns down, igniting fires that threaten the world.

Alternative outlets like Knoxviews, Knoxville Voice, Buzzflash, Truthout, CommonDreams and OpedNews demonstrate, however, that not all media go along with mass deceptions that endanger the world. In the end they just might save us all.  

Copyright © 2007 by Don Williams, All Rights Reserved

* The first line of this column is a Humorous reference to a phrase that is becoming all too familiar to longtime readers. It was the opening line to my last column for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, which the editor refused to publish, though he later posted it without permission at his blog, The Upfront Page. Scroll down at that link to see my last column.

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