Dick Cavett: When the Press Broke Down

[kevinmc]

We have, of late, been through many an eventful day. It seems like at least a decade ago that the assault on Don Imus was the Biggest Story Ever Told. I’m sure he’s grateful for the numbing events since then that have dwarfed his banishment. Virginia Tech gave the administration a little breather by drawing attention away, for a time, from George’s Folly.

What new awful headlines could possibly follow Virginia Tech? Well, we got variations on Abattoir Baghdad Sets Record for Carnage, Rosie Trumped, Pat Tillman Case a Shocking Army Lie, War Lost and, as if our hearts could endure any more breakage, the fall of pretty little Sanjaya, he of the curly locks.

The president has resumed harping on those who “think they know more than the generals.” O, for a member of the press with the fortitude to shout, “Like General Shinseki, sir?” And let’s not forget the other generals who asked for more troops in order to effect an exit from Iraq long ago, when it was still a possibility. But the odious Rumsfeld knew better. With all due respect, of course.


(What do you think would happen if, say, the excellent Martha Raddatz of ABC asked at a press conference, “Mr. President, it needn’t be a precise number, but has anybody calculated how many thousands of human beings would be alive today — if it weren’t for you?”)......

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/05/dick-cavett-when-press-broke-down.html

[bigscott]

1. wow

awesome - what i would not give for a member of the press to have cojones that large