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Mar. 21, 2007 A republican campaign strategist once admitted there was no such thing as the liberal media. He confessed that conservatives used the term, liberal media, as an excuse for conservative policy failures. A perfect example of this is unfolding now as conservatives desperately are trying to obfuscate the scandal involving the firing of eight federal attorneys. The obfuscation began with Matt Drudge who reported how President Clinton fired 93 federal attorneys and the "liberal media" made no issue about it. This report was then plagiarized by scores of conservative newspaper editorials across the nation and also repeated incessantly on Fox News by everybody from Britt Hume to Sean Hannitty. Even Karl Rove spoke about it, and he knows why this little fact is misleading. This is the point that all these liars and misinformed plagiarizers don't mention or are ignorant of: At the beginning of their terms all new presidents fire most, if not all, of the federal prosecuting attorneys, so it wasn't unusual for Clinton to fire them all at the start of his term. He was only following tradition. The Bush administration's recent purge of federal attorneys is unusual because it happened mid-term. No other president in history has ever fired such a large number of federal attorneys during the mid-term. A few presidents have fired one, but no president has ever fired them en masse mid-term. The Bush administration likely fired these attorneys because they were conducting corruption probes of republicans or had failed to speed investigations of democrats. Legal experts regard this purge as an unprecedented threat to the independence of our legal system and this is why the scandal is receiving so much publicity. It has nothing to do with the media being liberal which it is not. I wish the media was liberal. If the media was liberal, they would have pro union stories nightly--something the big corporate-owned networks never, and I mean never, have. Everyday, they would focus on the threat to the environment posed by corporate polluters instead of ignoring the story because they're owned by corporate polluters (NBC is owned by General Electric for example). They would shine a light on how the Bush administration flushes the constitution down the toilet, and they would constantly report on how Congress and the presidency (especially this current administration) is in bed with big business criminals. But the media never reports on these travesties because the media is not liberal. Another lie spread to obfuscate the Bush administration's purge of federal attorneys is the claim that Clinton once fired a prosecutor because he was going to start investigating Whitewater. Charles Banks was actually an appointee of President H. W. Bush and it was under this first President Bush that he declined to investigate Whitewater (despite pressure from that administration) because there was not enough substance to the charges. So not only did he decide not to investigate, but he looked at the case under a different president, yet conservative pundits claim he was fired for beginning an investigation into Whitewater, and this crazy lie spreads among conservatives like the stomach flu in a school cafeteria. Unfortunately, explaining these lies and distortions to conservatives is like talking to a brick wall -- it never seems to sink in. ------------ About the author Mark Gelbart: My book, Talk Radio, is a black comedy about a radio talk show host who gets kidnapped and psychologically tortured by a loser. www.mark-gelbart.com Email: agelbart@aol.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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