"Whitewash as Public Service: How The 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation
"The plain, sad reality--I report this following four full days studying the work--is that The 9/11 Commission Report, despite the vast quantity of labor behind it, is a cheat and a fraud.
"If the Commission means to serve fact, it simply cannot avoid addressing in this Report the gap between avowed presidential awareness of domestic terrorist danger and actual presidential impassivity.
"What the Commissioners had to supply amounted to an alibi, both for the President and for themselves.
"an array of doublespeak renamings, ill-accounted-for deprecations, evasions, silences,
"This document—already elevated to iconic status—qualifies as a weapon in a major domestic conflict: the war on incisive, sometimes rudely disruptive critical though--thought that distinguishes the democratic citizen from the idolatrous fool, the sucker, the clueless consumer, the ad person’s delight.
"But almost equally telling is the decision not to treat the audience as citizens with minds to be challenged but--regularly--as children with a taste for fairy tales.
"The Commission, in sum, offers peace through exculpation, evasion, and entertainment—and in doing so dangerously reenergizes a national relish for fantasy."
LOL. How do you manage to use so many words and yet say nothing at all? That's a real skill, Ray-man. |
