01-16-2017, 10:22 AM
(01-15-2017, 04:03 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Dave,
All I am hearing is a lot of whining about how your candidate didn't win because of those mean Russians, those ignorant rednecks, and those crazy kids in Macedonia, and that the traditional press, despite what was clearly cheerleading for the Iraq War during its runup and cheerleading for Hillary in the months before the election, doesn't bear any responsibility for any of it and should maintain its privileged position in the national discourse, by government (or corporate) fiat if need be.
I'm not sure that's a tenable position.
There are two major problems with your argument. First, Hillary was not my candidate. I held my nose to vote for her in preference to the Orange One, but that's all. Second, I'm just as angry that the press gave GWB a virtual pass as you are. My only question: how could a press corps not deeply embedded in Iraq already, have fact checked the CIA, assuming they actually generated the intelligence that was reported.
GWB got far too much forbearance from the press and the public in general. For some reason, that's typical for GOP Presidents. Reagan did too, for reasons also unknown to me. I watched both in real time, and they made no sense to me then or since.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.