Monday, June 26, 2006

Fake Indignation

Is not the news interesting?
We see 5 days after the story broke, about the government secrectly monitoring bank transfers, Bush and and his monkey Cheney crying about the leak of this pogram to the American people. Did it take 5 days for someone to explain what was written in the newspapers to these two?
Did it take 5 days for Rove to come up with a response to help Bush in the polls?
Did it take 5 days for the right wing media to be briefed so that all the indignation could be focused?
What is really interesting is the right wing person on Hardball, who wants charges of treason to be brought against the newspapers, saying that anyone with a brain could figure out that this was happening. Does this mean that Bush and his monkey Cheney do not have a brain?
All of the experts on the show said that this monitoring program is all but obsolete because the terrorists know it exists and have changed their methods to avoid detection. In fact it was suggested that this program has been of limited use for some time( 1 to 2 years).
It was also reported that once the administration knew it was going to be reported they tried to leak it to other newspapers.
I believe that this indignation is false. It is bad politics. I also believe that America is catching on to this ruse. The rest of the world has caught on but the administrations hold on the media here has slowed the flow of information to the American people.

1 comment:

Stardust said...

It sure looked fake to me. "They Doth Protest Too Much Methinks" It was too rehearsed and neither one normally talk so firmly and well prepared on any issue. That is why they took so long to make a statement, it takes awhile for chimps to learn things.