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AIDING AND ABETTING. They are indeed EVERY BIT as culpable as the bushies - because they were in a unique position to debunk the crap and the lies, and shine a bright light of truth on these slithering bastards. And they did NOTHING. Well, unless you consider slobbering and gushing and cheerleading all over bush and his "package." EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM was in a position to know better.
I, too, dismiss the Pox "news" crew outright. They're beyond help, so they don't even count.
But the OTHERS: Tim Russert, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Diane Sawyer, Ted Koppel, Charlie Gibson, Tom Brokaw, Lisa Myers, Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Brian Williams, Judy Woodruff, Candy Crowley, George Stephanopolis, Cokie Roberts, Jim Lehrer, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, that ABOMIMATION Paula Zahn, the laughable Larry King, the whole lot of them (although Dan Rather seems to have awakened from his stupor in the last several weeks, and he at least recognized the big boots they'd all been stomped by in an interview with the BBC more than a year ago - wherein he said that if he were to report anything adverse about the White House, he'd be "necklaced") should be facing charges. At the VERY LEAST - about 850-some-odd wrongful deaths that THEY AIDED AND ABETTED by refusing to report the truth about the war during its build-up. That blood, and all that carnage and wreckage and severed limbs and post traumatic stress syndrome and burned skin and pierced eyes and ear drums and poisoned lungs and all the rest of it - IS VERY MUCH INDEED SQUARELY ON THEIR HEADS. AND ON THEIR CONSCIENCES, TOO, assuming they even have consciences. I realize that's a pretty hefty assumption right there.
Mari, as a former journalist, I can scarcely express my shame. Shit, I WORKED WITH Candy Crowley at the AP when she was there (I was there, too). Same with Wendell Goler who's now with Pox. Shit. He played bass with the AP band. He was wonderful. Now? He's damaged goods. The whole lot of 'em should be fired, and we should start over. I can think of a few hundred people who'd man those anchor desks and reporters mikes in a far more worthy fashion than these spoiled, overpaid brat-children do. They ALL - every last one of them - should be ashamed of themselves. They won't be. Somehow they'll rationalize all over the map about it. They'll even say they were just trying to do their jobs. And THAT will be an absolute lie. That wasn't objective journalism they were committing. It was total, unabashed, unadulterated prostitution.
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