the bone conductor

and for god’s sake, don’t speak any, especially if it’s regarding your own total, abject, catastrophic failures that paved the way to evil’s house in the first place. it was bad enough when the screeching punditry insisted en masse that rove is a “genius” for his willingness to be more despicable (and if that means breaking the law, hey, laws are for little people, dummy) in both thought and deed than his opponents. But this, this refusing to acknowledge their own complicity in everything from both presidential elections to the brutally incompetent execution of this lunatic “war on terror” (because if you can’t wage a full scall military action against a base emotion, what good is it being president?) is probably as dishonest, as egregious, as viciously selfish and venal as anything bush and his merry band of criminals and sociopaths have done. if the media didn’t completely roll over and give bush a free pass leading up to the elections in 2000 (”let’s not pick on the dumb guy; it might make us look too “elitist” and turn off viewers and/or readers. besides, it’s been prety quiet for the last several years. what could happen?”), didn’t engage in the most loathesome sort of hysterical anti-journalism for three solid years after the world trade center was brought down in one of the most savage and incomprehensible criminal acts in history, to the point where a funny fake news program host made international headlines by calling out the media… the list goes on. living up to the responsibility that the press must bear for a free and just society to survive, much less prosper, is a great burden, no doubt. but, you know… at least fucking try, for god’s sake.