IT'S WAR KIDDIES, GET OUT YOUR SQUIRT GUNS
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WHITE HOUSE DECLARES WAR ON PRESS
Dubya Tries to Spike the Truth
Smear of Esquire Reporter
Where Are Fineman, Whores?
An MWO Commentary
In the wake of continuing embarrassing revelations about Enron, September 11, and the inner workings of the administration, the Bush White House has declared war on the American press. [[RD: Let's see, U2's Bono lines up with Treasury, and the B-52s line up with the yellow press.]]
George W. Bush made the war an open one during his speech last Thursday night on homeland security.
In that speech, Bush flatly declared that "ased on everything I have seen, I do not believe anyone could have prevented the horror of September the 11th."
The remark directly challenged numerous press reports over recent weeks that show exactly the contrary.
So powerful have those reports been that even F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) have admitted that the attacks could have been prevented, had federal intelligence officials done their jobs effectively.
But Dubya, on Thursday night, slapped down those reports and dared the press to continue its reporting -- all the while hoping to distract both the press and the public from paying attention to any further revelations.
Bush's not-so-subtle declaration of war on the press came on the heels of White House efforts to smear Pulitzer-Prize winner and former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, over Suskind's blockbuster article in Esquire revealing the duplicity, fraudulence and bitter in-fighting that mark Bush's behind-the-scenes political operation.
White House Communications Director Dan Barlett, in remarks to the New York Times, denounced Suskind as a deluded man with "a hyperactive imagination."
Bartlett did not challenge the accuracy any of the damning quotations in Suskind's article -- including his own extensive remarks about how departed adviser Karen Hughes "literally" manufactured George W. Bush.
But Bartlett, alarmed at the political shockwaves caused by Suskind's report, thought nothing of smearing the reporter.
The war is on.
But where are the whores?
Supine as ever, mostly.
Take Howard "The Duck" Fineman, MWO Whore of the Year 2001. Fineman reports lovingly, to the point of obsession, on every tiny gyration within the Bush White House. Yet on the Esquire article and the White House smearing of Ron Suskind and Dubya's effort to spike the 9/11 stories? Nada from "The Duck." Too interested in defending his crown, he won't even stand up for one of his fellow journalists under attack!
Will the White House succeed in its war on the press?
Much will depend on how the press handles the new shocking revelations about the National Security Agency's foreknowledge about the September 11 plot, and about Bush's foreknowledge about the Enron collapse -- revelations that have only just broken, and that MWO reports on below.
But make no mistake: the war is on, a war the provoked Bush White House will try to fight to the finish.
[[RD: Or his hoped for demise, whichever comes first....]] |
