Merry Bleepin Christmas: Elaine Cassel packs it in

[teryang]

http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel12252004.html

Merry 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>

[acmavm]

1. And that's the story, the reality, in a nutshell (as they say).

We are now a friggin' third world banana republic.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

2. And living under a dictator

Who has not once been elected by the American people.

[itzamirakul]

3. The stupidity of it all is

that those who have no care for laws or for environmental protections have to live in those same conditions. Are they stupid enough to htink there will be some rareified air that they will breath? Some uncontaminated water that they will drink? Some personal army that will insure their safety from the hordes that will arise?

[ixion]

4. repukes think pollution is a myth

created by the vast liberal conspiracy. That's why they don't mind doing away with all those restraints.

Ironically, these same people who profess such a love for rugged individualism actually cringe when one actually comes along. These same people who scream for a reduction in environmental restraints, emit the same scream for unconstitutional advances for law enforcement, invasions of privacy, and the repeal of the 1st and 4th amendments, among others. Basically, the only one they really try and protect is the 2nd, which again makes no sense whatsoever. But hey, not making sense in fashionable these days. :eyes:

[Eloriel]

5. Whooboy

that's one powerful, depressing as all get out (but true) column. Almost sorry I read it.

[FormerDittoHead]

6. some observations

First off, I first heard Elaine Cassel on the Thom Hartmann show - she's great.

I hit the point of my 'main media right wing bias' with the puff piece that CBS did on Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq Xmas last week. The 'real message' was hidden in the text about how, the question posed by a soldier that put Rumsfeld on the spot the other week was in fact "prompted" by a (evil) reporter (I suppose reporters are now like those "evil trial lawyers"). Let's forget the fact that the question, when asked, drew a round of applause from the audience of soldiers.

My main observation, however, is Cassel's observation that the administration is trying to bankrupt the government.

EXACTLY. The BIG PLAN is to have a NATIONAL SALES TAX. They will never stop doing everything necessary that will lead to it.

For some reason, the Red State idiots would actually like to pay 10% more for their diapers and canned food than to, heaven forbid, give back their $300 tax rebate checks or *consider* raising taxes for those who can best afford them.

[depakid]

7. "the Post has not one ounce of credibility with me..."

"The Washington Post, my hometown newspaper, has become such an administration propaganda machine that I can no longer bear to read it, except as parody."

Truer words have never been spoken.

As to the rest of her observations- the question must be asked- where are the Democrats?