we beseech thee, oh wizards of miracles
…you few who are able to warp economic and natural law as guild navigators bend space. we prithee… aw hell, we just prithee, okay?
witness the spice melange of the official crime guild “navigators”. the “venerable” WSJ bitches at the DC parasites for not performing the unique necromancy for which their special selves were elected:
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON
August 19, 2008; Page A1WASHINGTON — The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn’t passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word “baseball.”
do something, you guys! do something, dammit! people must be threatened with violent force; these show resolutions don’t go low enough.
[...] “The Democrats in charge of this Congress have been heavy on fluff and light on substance,” says Republican leader Rep. John Boehner of Ohio. “Resolutions are fine but why aren’t we also passing legislation to lower gas prices? What about health-care reform and runaway entitlement spending?”In fact, the second-fewest number of public laws passed over the 20-year review was during the 104th Congress — when Republicans were newly in control, with a Democratic president. Resolutions, however, are usually popular on both sides of the aisle.
now how about an article on articles that are the equivalent of what slacker ass opportunist state whore elizabeth williamson fantasizes she’s criticizing? a voice from the wilderness (via LRC) steps in as if on cue.
recommended — glenn greenwald
preach it, brother G:
And let’s just spend a brief moment marveling at how mindless and uncritical the establishment media is in how they report on these matters. It was The Post‘s Carrie Johnson and Joby Warrick who first reported the FBI’s leak on August 8 that Ivins had likely traveled to New Jersey after taking administrative leave in the morning, and they reported it without an iota of critical thought, and certainly didn’t point out that the FBI’s own timeline was impossible on its own terms. More amazingly, it was one of those same Post reporters — Carrie Johnson — who on Thursday printed the FBI’s brand new and mutually exclusive theory — that Ivins traveled to New Jersey at night, after work — without even bothering to mention the most important fact: that it was a brand new theory that contradicted the one she mindlessly passed on from the FBI the week before.
To the contrary, in touting the FBI’s brand new theory, Johnson wrote that “government sources offered more detail about Ivins’s movements on a critical day in the case” — as though the FBI’s abandonment of its prior claim in favor of a new one comprised “more detail.” The FBI didn’t offer “more detail”; it offered completely “new detail” because the last “detail” they leaked to Johnson was almost instantaneously disproven — a fact Johnson doesn’t even bother to mention. Instead, she just allows the FBI’s story to change radically and then serves as a vessel for that new story as though it’s further incriminating proof, rather than a reflection of the fact that the FBI still has no idea whether it was Ivins who went to New Jersey to mail those letters.
That’s because The Post‘s role here has been and continues to be what the establishment media’s role generally is — to serve government sources and amplify their claims, not to investigate their veracity. That’s how it was Saddam Hussein who was the original anthrax culprit, followed by Steven Hatfill, and now Bruce Ivins. It’s how Jessica Lynch heroically fought off Iraqi goons in a firefight, how Pat Tillman stood down Al Qaeda monsters until they murdered him, how Iraq possessed mountains of WMDs, and now, how Russia has assaulted the consensus values of the Western World by invading a sovereign country and occupying parts of it for a whole week, etc. etc. All of those narratives came from the Government directly into the pages of The Washington Post, which then uncritically conveyed them, often (as in the case of the Jessica Lynch lies and WMD claims) playing a leading role in doing so.
That’s what the Post is doing again with regard to the FBI’s case against Bruce Ivins. It was the same Post reporters who, on August 4, breathlessly touted one of the most inane FBI leaks of all — that Ivins was clearly some sort of mad scientist because he possessed what the Post depicted as an exotic germ machine which Ivins had no good reason to possess, a lyophilizer (!), even though possession of a lyophilizer by an anthrax researcher such as Ivins is akin to possession of a pencil by an accountant (The Post headline: “Anthrax Dryer a Key To Probe — Suspect Borrowed Device From Lab”).
Similarly, here is an Associated Press article from last week, by AP’s Matt Apuzzo, purporting to report on what it admits are many “meticulously researched” questions that have been raised (including by me) about the FBI’s case, yet repeatedly demonizes such skepticism with these phrases, laced throughout the article: “the ingredients for a good conspiracy theory”; “skeptics and conspiracy theorists”; “armchair investigators, bloggers and scientists”; “one of the great conspiracy theories, like whether we landed on the moon or whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone”; “anti-Jewish writers blame the attack on a Zionist plot”; “You can’t prove aliens didn’t mail the letters.”
As always, in Establishment Media World, nothing is more insane or radical than refusing to believe every word the Government says. Even after Iraqi mushroom clouds and the whole litany of Government falsehoods, the establishment hallmark of Seriousness and Sanity is accepting the Government’s word. When it says Iraq was behind the attacks, then it was. When they said Hatfill was the culprit, he was. Now that they say that Ivins is, he is, and only “conspiracy theorists” — comparable to those who disbelieve we landed on the moon — would question that or demand to see the actual evidence. The FBI is relying, understandably so, on their mindless allies in the media to depict its case against Ivins as so airtight that no real investigation is necessary.
and on the seventh day greenwald rested.