Corrupt and Bankrupt

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Lying to congress is so funny! Right, Noron O'Donnell?

Really, is it any wonder at all that our government is so fundamentally corrupt and broken when we have a press like this? Why wouldn't top government officials lie continuously when our national press corps finds such lying to be such a source of merriment and humor, and can summon the energy only to attack, mock and condemn those who find the lying objectionable, rather than the liars themselves?

And given that these are the people who are supposed to perform the function of checking government power and uncovering government corruption, is it really any wonder that the administration has felt comfortable engaging in six years worth of systematic lawbreaking? These media stars would never investigate any of it, because they don't think it's a problem, and if it ends up being exposed, they will belittle and mock any objections to the lawbreaking, defend the administration, and distract everyone from the issues raised. They obscure the consequences of corruption revelations with gossipy and giggly speculation about who is helped or hurt politically.

Investigating the actual politicization of the Justice Department by the White House is just "tit-for-tat, politics as usual" BY THE DEMOCRATS.

WTF?

Abuse of power, anyone?

Journalist, anywhere?

The trivialization of Republican corruption, specifically Bush White House corruption, as something either unimportant to the American people, or, as just something all politicians and administrations do, drives me crazy.

Why are these morons on the teevee spouting their vapid, intellectually bankrupt bullshit 24 hours a day?

Why do they worship someone as pathologically corrupt as Karl Rove?

Why?

Because they worship power, specifically Republican power. Thus, they have zero interest in serving the public interest.

The overriding goal of most of our national media elites is to preserve the prevailing Republican power system that rules Washington because of how beneficial that system is to them. As a result, they admire and want to protect those who rule that system, and thus reflexively view scandals which entail accusations of true corruption by our political leaders -- and especially unpleasant formal investigations and threats of criminal prosecution -- as frivolous and inherently false and unfair.

That journalism stuff is hard work. Might make a few enemies. Might get fewer invites to the D.C. cocktail parties. The Preznit might not give me a kewl nickname.

I'm sure they'll get back to some real investigating when there's a America-hating, terrorist-loving Democrat in the White House.

Corrupt and Bankrupt