Before the weekend starts, in about an hour for Peacenik, Peacenik wants to salute Dan Froomkin who was recently fired from the Washington Post.
He was one of the few mainstream media types who weren't Bush/Cheney asskissers. Peacenik has been reading Froomkin for years. And now there are fewer and fewer reasons for Peacenik to even visit the Washington Post. If Froomkin doesn't get a new high profile job soon, it will tell you that the neo con war on the media is not only continuing but that the neo cons are winning it.
by mcjoan
Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 11:30:06 AM PDT
As Fred Hiatt retrenches ever deeper into his Village enclave, creating as Scott Horton says, "a Neocon remainder bin" on his opinion pages, Dan Froomkin bids farewell. And he demonstrates again why he's consistently been the main reason to visit WaPo's opinion page, and why it must have been so uncomfortable for Hiatt to keep him around.
When I look back on the Bush years, I think of the lies. There were so many. Lies about the war and lies to cover up the lies about the war. Lies about torture and surveillance. Lies about Valerie Plame. Vice President Dick Cheney's lies, criminally prosecutable but for his chief of staff Scooter Libby's lies. I also think about the extraordinary and fundamentally cancerous expansion of executive power that led to violations of our laws and our principles.
And while this wasn't as readily apparent until President Obama took office, it's now very clear that the Bush years were all about kicking the can down the road – either ignoring problems or, even worse, creating them and not solving them. This was true of a huge range of issues including the economy, energy, health care, global warming – and of course Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read on...
He was one of the few mainstream media types who weren't Bush/Cheney asskissers. Peacenik has been reading Froomkin for years. And now there are fewer and fewer reasons for Peacenik to even visit the Washington Post. If Froomkin doesn't get a new high profile job soon, it will tell you that the neo con war on the media is not only continuing but that the neo cons are winning it.
by mcjoan
Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 11:30:06 AM PDT
As Fred Hiatt retrenches ever deeper into his Village enclave, creating as Scott Horton says, "a Neocon remainder bin" on his opinion pages, Dan Froomkin bids farewell. And he demonstrates again why he's consistently been the main reason to visit WaPo's opinion page, and why it must have been so uncomfortable for Hiatt to keep him around.
When I look back on the Bush years, I think of the lies. There were so many. Lies about the war and lies to cover up the lies about the war. Lies about torture and surveillance. Lies about Valerie Plame. Vice President Dick Cheney's lies, criminally prosecutable but for his chief of staff Scooter Libby's lies. I also think about the extraordinary and fundamentally cancerous expansion of executive power that led to violations of our laws and our principles.
And while this wasn't as readily apparent until President Obama took office, it's now very clear that the Bush years were all about kicking the can down the road – either ignoring problems or, even worse, creating them and not solving them. This was true of a huge range of issues including the economy, energy, health care, global warming – and of course Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read on...
