Mainstream Media, The Blackout and Diversions Continue
By Anthony Wade
I stated yesterday that the John Ashcroft resignation was a diversionary tactic to keep Votergate 2004 out of the mainstream media. I further speculated that I expected Bush to name an equally controversial replacement, and quick. The speculation was derived from the fact that it was becoming apparent the Bush strategy is to throw stories out as fast as possible to keep the theft of the 2004 election, the only story that matters now, off the air.
Today Bush named Alberto Gonzales as the new Attorney General. For those of you who may not know, Gonzales is the genius who wrote a legal defense of the Bush torture policy. While Gonzales is far less polarizing then Ashcroft, the choice may be more an attempt to stir the stories that Bush will be more moderate in a second term. The reality is that Bush should not have a second term, as Votergate 2004 continues to grow as a national movement. By keeping the discourse about facets of a second Bush term, he attempts to dispel the illegitimacy of such a term. Gonzales, the man who argued that Bush could treat prisoners in ways that led to the Abu Ghraib scandal, was praised by Bush today, who said
