The World Is On Its Ass

I think we're hurling out into space, and not really in the same world we were in yesterday. Only we don't know it. Let's start at the 5 pm EST hour, and CNNMSNBC are trying not to freak out that a journalismist has to go to the big house. Judith "I was proved fucking right" Miller is going to prison. Matt Cooper's source gave him the green light to testify, but not Judith. Makes you wonder how much different those two sources are. Anyway, over at Fox at this hour, they're showing overandoveradnauseum the Shasta Groene story, telling everyone with direly serious faces that the poor 8 year old was raped repeatedly by the monster who kidnapped her. Can someone explain to me why, just starting with the fact that she's a minor, they show her face all fucking day long? Let alone as an alleged rape victim. Her face should be covered. Fox isn't alone in this. And yes, I get the part about pulling the horse back after it's left the barn, whatever. How come journalismists aren't required to follow the flipping LAWS in this country anymore? But they whine when they get called on the carpet about those laws. I am all for reporter shield laws, if they allow reporters to be shielded when something, I dunno, important happens, like the poor schmo that has to be in witness protection for producing evidence of Abu Graib. That's the sort of thing I would expect any court, even one in DC, to protect a reporter from having to divulge. But what none of the talking heads can explain, is how come this is so gawdawful when a treasonous crime was committed? Remember Weapons of Mass Destruction? That was Valerie Plame's job. Revealing her, no matter what the wingnuts say, and increasingly, they seem to agree with this point, was an act of treason. And Judith "I was proved fucking right" Miller seems to think she's exempt from this discussion. Wrong. Bye, Judy. Maybe you'll get lucky and Ahmed Chalabi will send you a cake with a file in it. Some of us won't miss your stenography.