Liberal Democratic Politics, Discussion and Snark

Last week the press was in a furor over supposed “near gaffes” by Democrats, all the while ignoring the fact that John McCain doesn’t even know the difference between Sunni’s and Shi’ites. There is a reason why TV ratings are in decline and newspaper circulation and ad revenues are down. People can tell when they’re being fed a load of horse shit.

Here’s a nice summary of the media’s abject laziness (and GOP’edness) from Firedoglake:

Things that the US press freaked out over last week:

– OMG! Hillary lied about a sick woman! (Not really, as it turns out.)

– OMG! Barack was picking on people! (Not really, as it turns out.)

Things that the US press did not freak out over:

– John McCain’s breaking campaign finance law (though they did a number of pieces on public financing of political campaigns).

– John McCain’s constant stream of gaffes, lies, and worse (though they did play up a McCain attack on a non-gaffe by Obama).

The more and more crap that American’s get shoveled into their eyeballs by the corporate owned media, the more and more turned off they are, the less informed they become, and the more likely they are to end up voting for a complete asshole who thinks torture should be legal.

Well, we already knew that the Bush Administration was a bunch of criminals, but here’s the proof that they knew it and tried to make it okay:

The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes.

This particular memo was penned by John C. Yoo, then a deputy in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. John C. Yoo is the Administration’s architect of torture. There is zero way to make this funny or lighthearted. John Yoo is unamerican and deserves to be held responsible for destroying our constitution, our national dignity and our standing in the world. Not to mention all of the crimes committed in Liberty’s name due to his vicious pen.