The Furious Spinner

So the Emperor Has No Clothes but people are beginning to notice, and they've started to point. Even mainstream media is beginning to report what is really happening in Iraq. (For instance, the U.S. used white phosphorus or something awful in Falluja, as I reported here a year ago. So you can feel superior that you knew what was happening even if no one else was paying any attention.) People seem to be waking up to what's happening to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. I've been writing about this story since November 2003. I'm just so amazed when people seem suprised at what's going on. The only excuse can be that they weren't paying attention, don't you think? When I see all these politicians say they never knew the intelligence was being cooked to go to war, I think, "But I knew and I'm just a regular person. And all the other millions of people protesting against the war knew. So where were you, Mr. and Ms. Politico?" I'll tell you where they were: pandering to the fringes. Pandering to the rapture people, the intelligent design fruitcakes, and Karl Rove.

Anyway, it's all falling down. I hope. The Emperor and his teeny little peeny are exposed, along with his fashionistas.

Judith Miller was sacked. Or she left on her own accord. (Let's all have a little laugh over that.) I'll repeat here what I've said before. I think some of the reporting on her has been gossipy and catty. (Huffington Post for one.) I don't care who she sleeps with or how shrill her voice may or may not be or how pushy she may or may not be. I just think she helped take us to war; she was a stenographer to power. That is her crime. In her "farewell letter" she still doesn't take any responsibility for what she did. She just praises herself. (And from a writerly POV, she, uses, way, too, many, damn, commas,. Just saying...)

And just in: THEY'VE CALLED OFF DRILLING IN THE ARCTIC! Far-fucking-out.

Mario voted for the first time as a U.S. citizen yesterday. Congrats, Mar. Now you're part of the problem...so fix it, will ya?

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