I could go on to discuss the new nukes being planned for England and America at Cold War levels, including new Hydrogen bombs and many other outrages, but in the interests of brevity, let's take the case of KSM.
You'd think Big Media would respond in one of two ways to a story like that. Either it's all true, or else something fraudulent and evil elicited a string of lies from the terrorist. If it's true that he's guilty of all he's admitted to, this should be the biggest media story since 9/11. I can imagine this headline:
Bust of the Century: 9/11 Mastermind Admits to 31 Crimes. Or this one…
Call Off the War On Terror, We Caught The Guy. Or…
Torture Works! 31 Crimes Solved!
But if the experts in Big Media deem KSM to be lying about anything on the list, you'd think they would report the disturbing news that our government is fabricating and torturing and holding kangaroo courts to beat the band. In that case, one might imagine a headline like:
Bush Administration Tortures Man Into Unbelievable Confessions. Or like…
Tortured Man Denied Right to Call Witnesses. Or…
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.
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