Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The magical projection tour

Soledad O'Brien continues to challenge the liars:
“Never once in that speech, as you know, which I have the speech right here, he never once used the word apology,” O’Brien pointed out. “He never once said, ‘I’m sorry.’”
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1nzd8)
“But that’s not apology,” O’Brien pressed. “But everybody keeps talking about this apology tour and apologies from the president and I’m trying to find the words ‘I’m sorry, I apologize’ in any of those speeches, which I have the text of all those speeches in front of me. None of those speeches at all, and if you go to Factcheck.org, which we check in a lot, they’ll say the same thing. They fact check this…”
“I don’t care what FactCheck[.org] says!” King exclaimed.

“They’re a fact checker,” the CNN host laughed. “But they’re a fact checker and I’m reading the speeches.”
 
 How do the people of peter king's district rationalize electing such an utter liar to represent them? This behavior is a serious exercise in projection, the republicans know that the US violated all of it's values during the bush administration. The republicans know that their behavior during those years deserves an apology to all the peoples and nations the bush administration bullied and harmed, but that just means they will resist it that much farther. And if the new president, in due course of cleaning up the mess left behind by the most obscenely evil gang of criminals ever to inhabit the White House, refuses to play that role well the republicans will simply act like Obama is apologizing. Anyone paying attention knows better and it sure is nice to have journalists like Soledad O'Brien actually challenging the fevered imagination. What does the media have to lose? No matter how hard they tried to roll over for the lies of right wingers the media are still and forever "liberally biased" so there is nothing to gain by trying to accomodate the angry tea bag crowd.


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