Dining with Dictators, the Media Obsession
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke
"Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty"
-Mahatma Gandhi
Not apparently, if you are Diane Sawyer. (h/t Hot Air)
Click and watch, or read the transcript. Diane sits down with the murdering opthamologist, and the best she can do is ask what's on his IPOD? A man responsible for the assassination of numerous lebanese politicans not to mention vicious repression in his own state. Was Faith Hill playing in the background as you ordered their deaths Assad? That should have been the follow-up question. But not from Diane. She even sits idly by as the fascist takes pot-shots at the value of democracy. "What good is democracy if you are dead," the Baathist dictator asks. He was talking about Iraq, but the question hangs in the air of Beirut and Damascus, and Baghdad. "How many have died trying to bring democracy to Syria?" Sawyer doesn't bother to ask.
These journalists pride themselves on asking the tough questions, but when the opportunity arises to actually ask a tough question, they play patty-cake instead. They squawk and moan about BushCo's repression of the media, but when they sit down with a man whose actually responsible for cracking down on the efforts of people to be free, they fawn like a girl with her first crush.
As Easton Jordan told us about CNN's coverage of Iraq under Hussein, the MSM has no problem with trading the truth for "access." They only dig and churn and demand the truth in societies where there are absolutely no consquences. If you sit across the table from Kim Jong-Il, or Assad, or Ahmadinejad, and you play footsie, you are doing nothing more than serving as a dictator's PR wing. You are nothing more than Goebbels, without even getting to collect a paycheck for the service.
I hope you enjoyed the access Diane. You cooperation with evil has been noted. In the words of someone more eloquent than myself, a reminder for Diane, and the rest of the MSM, that the blood does not come off.
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
- Edmund Burke
"Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty"
-Mahatma Gandhi
Not apparently, if you are Diane Sawyer. (h/t Hot Air)
Click and watch, or read the transcript. Diane sits down with the murdering opthamologist, and the best she can do is ask what's on his IPOD? A man responsible for the assassination of numerous lebanese politicans not to mention vicious repression in his own state. Was Faith Hill playing in the background as you ordered their deaths Assad? That should have been the follow-up question. But not from Diane. She even sits idly by as the fascist takes pot-shots at the value of democracy. "What good is democracy if you are dead," the Baathist dictator asks. He was talking about Iraq, but the question hangs in the air of Beirut and Damascus, and Baghdad. "How many have died trying to bring democracy to Syria?" Sawyer doesn't bother to ask.
These journalists pride themselves on asking the tough questions, but when the opportunity arises to actually ask a tough question, they play patty-cake instead. They squawk and moan about BushCo's repression of the media, but when they sit down with a man whose actually responsible for cracking down on the efforts of people to be free, they fawn like a girl with her first crush.
As Easton Jordan told us about CNN's coverage of Iraq under Hussein, the MSM has no problem with trading the truth for "access." They only dig and churn and demand the truth in societies where there are absolutely no consquences. If you sit across the table from Kim Jong-Il, or Assad, or Ahmadinejad, and you play footsie, you are doing nothing more than serving as a dictator's PR wing. You are nothing more than Goebbels, without even getting to collect a paycheck for the service.
I hope you enjoyed the access Diane. You cooperation with evil has been noted. In the words of someone more eloquent than myself, a reminder for Diane, and the rest of the MSM, that the blood does not come off.
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
1 Comments:
'bout time you posted again. It seems to me you're missing lot of opportunity to comment on lots of things. Like Al Gore and Rush Limbuagh both being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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