http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel12252004.htmlMerry Bleepin' Christmas
Articles I Didn't Write
By ELAINE CASSEL
<snip> ...Whatever, the Post has not one ounce of credibility with me, and not just for that reason alone. Typically stories of American troop deaths, if there were less than 20 in a day, are buried way back in the front section of the paper. Baseball in Washington and stupid stories about frustrated Christmas shoppers who can't find some mindless game for their spoiled children fill the front page. Like the Pentagon that can't afford to show the coffins of dead soldiers, the Post hides the bad news behind pages of Christmas ads extolling the virtue of diamonds and gold (for wealthy Republicans) as "holiday" gifts and designer gowns for the upcoming inaugural balls.
As if to magnify the ridiculous depths of their own spin, yesterday's Post "B" section had a picture of a Marine, clearly with NO LEGS, sitting in a chair at Walter Reed Army Hospital in D.C. The caption referred to the Marine not as having LOST HIS LEGS, but as having suffered "injuries" to his legs. That about did it for me. Even the stupidest of Post readers could not help but see that he had NO LEGS.
We are no longer looking forward to a fascist regime, we are in it. I predict there will be political prisoners before the year is out. The government may go bankrupt, which is what Bush seems to have planned. The head of the EPA, who called for more arsenic in our water and mercury in our air, is going to be the head of our health care! The man who believes in no law is going to be Attorney General. Don't try to make sense of appointments or the news. The only sense is that it is nonsense and that the motives of the regime are too complicated for us to figure out. Consider that you are reading about a third world country, for that is what we have become.<snip>