Get a clue - Bush, Candlestick, Drawing Room

[dooner]

This is a great column...

President Bush, With the Candlestick...
By Robert Parry, Consortium News.com, June 7, 2005

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"Observing the behavior of the national news media over the past three years has been like watching incompetent players in the mystery game “Clue” as they visit all the rooms and ask about all the suspects and weapons, but still insist on guessing at combinations that are transparently incorrect.

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To some extent, the news media’s reluctance to solve the Mystery of Bush’s Iraq War Lies may be explained by a well-founded fear of retaliation from Bush’s powerful defense apparatus – from the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page to the screamers on Fox News and right-wing talk radio.

But there may be another motive, a fear of the logical consequence that would follow a conclusion that Bush willfully deceived the American people into a disastrous war that has killed almost 1,700 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

If that conclusion were to be accepted as true, it would force mainstream editors into a tough decision about whether they should join the supposedly fringe position advocating Bush’s impeachment.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/060605.html

[NorCalDem]

1. Why is it a "fringe position"

to support Impeachment. If he and his cohorts broke the law, they deserve to be impeached. It's that simple. I don't care how popular the guy is with the dumb people in this country, breaking the law is breaking the law. I think even the Republicans would agree with that (provided that you do not tell them that you are talking about Bush).

[dooner]

2. "*supposedly* fringe position"

he says *supposedly* fringe position

i'd say that impeachment is being currently positioned as a fringe position by the MSM.. heck, the media can hardly talk about the Downing Street Memo, let alone the next logical step.

[walldude]

4. True

I saw Drudge on H&C a few days ago telling Colmes the crazy's want to impeach. Of course Colmes and his usual mousey self responded by saying "nobody is calling for impeachment". Dammit Colmes if you aren't going to help out here then move your ass out of the way..

[dooner]

5. Poor Colmes is hopeless

Fox couldn't have found a more sheepish liberal for the job. (Did you ever notice how they turn the volume down when anybody but Hannity is talking/yelling?)

[LightningFlash]

3. Fringe as in a bad news....

Treading on thin ice....That's what the corporate media are now, to be tried as cover up artists.