Eric Boehlert, a regular contributor to Salon and the Huffington Post, as well as to Rolling Stone, is the author of “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush“, an exigesis of documented instances in which the Mainstream Media (MSM) has defaulted on even the pretense of fairness and objectivity, as demonstrated most clearly by the contrast between the picayune obsessions with seemingly minor scandals of the Clinton Administration versus the extraordinary deference shown to the current Bush Administration under virtually any and all circumstances. On June 1, 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing Eric Boehlert, by telephone. What...
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Gratuitous Shout-out
Happy birthday to TD Mother-in-law, who is now 75 years young.
Continue reading...Maliki Maligns Mesopotamean Massacre
The facts are far from in, and in the end, as horrible as the events that took place in the Iranian town of Halitha (where it is alleged that American Marines massacred at least two dozen Iraqi civilians last November), we really don’t yet have a full picture of what has happened, and let’s just say in the fog of war, there are lots of grey areas… Still and all, new Iraqi PM Maliki has no choice but to demand a full investigation of the American forces even as they are propping his fragile government up, which he did… Needless...
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