Monday, April 12, 2004

George Bush is never wrong [The Bush Administration] can't admit to mistakes. They have to be right all the time. As their time in office increases, they are spending more time fighting rear-guard actions trying to prove that they were right or cover up the fact that they were wrong. At the moment, they are refraining from releasing Clinton-era records relating to al Qaeda, almost certainly because they contradict assertions about Clinton made by Bush officials. They have to be right, even when they're wrong. The administration has a nasty habit of threatening people in its own administration who seek to disprove the current alleged facts, even though said facts are not in fact factual. The administration even tried to shut up a critic by blowing his wife's cover as a CIA agent. That's the moral equivalent of hiring a hit man to go get her. And they did because they had to be right. And of course they have to be right that invading Iraq was a smart move in the war against terror. They are now trapped in a situation that is historically a disaster, a "war" that they cannot win, a situation that they will only make worse no matter which way they turn. 2:16:58 AM

Howard Stern and the First Amendment The odious Clear Channel radio barony's firing of Howard Stern only puts a period at the end of the sentence. The people who run that company are contemptible, because their action combines flagrant politics and cowardice -- quite a combination. But save your real contempt for the FCC, its cowardly chairman, Michael Powell, and his craven colleagues. Egged on by a Congress that has shown frightening disdain for free speech, the FCC has gone on its only holy war against "indecency." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 1:49:05 AM

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