Thursday, April 20, 2006
Marionette-theater
This shit MUST cease to amaze, or we're all going to die.
Why am I STILL surprised by the fact that the media are playing to Rove's script like wooden toys (or trained dogs, or zombies, or diahhroetic intestines, etc., etc., etc....)?
Huge front page stories all day Wednesday at the Times and Post websites, all about Rove being "demoted." Does anyone think that if Rove were in 24-hour lockdown at Sing-Sing, he would be the LEAST bit less involved in daily management of the syndicate's operations?
But he hasn't even been fired, or really "demoted" at all. He has given up his "policy" job to focus exclusively on the mid-term elections. Wow. That's going to take some getting used to.
In his response to the Post headline announcing, "Karl Rove quits policy position to focus on midterm elections," Billmon had it right:
"This is like reading that Jack the Ripper has given up his medical practice to concentrate on his night job."
That is exactly the quality of "reporting" currently being provided by "our" "media."
posted by speakingcorpse : 4/20/2006 04:06:00 AM
Why am I STILL surprised by the fact that the media are playing to Rove's script like wooden toys (or trained dogs, or zombies, or diahhroetic intestines, etc., etc., etc....)?
Huge front page stories all day Wednesday at the Times and Post websites, all about Rove being "demoted." Does anyone think that if Rove were in 24-hour lockdown at Sing-Sing, he would be the LEAST bit less involved in daily management of the syndicate's operations?
But he hasn't even been fired, or really "demoted" at all. He has given up his "policy" job to focus exclusively on the mid-term elections. Wow. That's going to take some getting used to.
In his response to the Post headline announcing, "Karl Rove quits policy position to focus on midterm elections," Billmon had it right:
"This is like reading that Jack the Ripper has given up his medical practice to concentrate on his night job."
That is exactly the quality of "reporting" currently being provided by "our" "media."
posted by speakingcorpse : 4/20/2006 04:06:00 AM
