Via Michael Moore / FB:
Let's
see... So George W. Bush is now an artist and a painter & roots for
dear brother "Jeb in 2016;" Dick Cheney now appears on many networks as
a grumpy old man pundit; Condi Rice
gets to be on the board that picks college football's Final 4... but
it's Brian Williams who's to be punished for Iraq? Are u effing kidding
me? I mean, an entire country was demolished, trillions were wasted,
thousands of our troops were killed & wounded, tens/hundreds of
thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed, and now, FINALLY, someone is
paying for Iraq war lies... and it's Brian fucking Williams????? Yes,
there is much that can be said about all the network reporters in 2003
who were embedded (i.e., Pentagon-approved) with the troops and getting
to "play war" instead of asking the Bush administration the hard
questions THAT DID NOT GET ASKED, and yes there is much to say about how
all the networks have dumbed down the nightly news and made it
unwatchable... BUT - to let the real liars who were responsible for the
Iraq War roam free while instead going after Brian Williams for
committing the crime of Faux Macho due to his claim of being on the
wrong chopper, well, this just begs to be ridiculed and stopped. Sinners
(that means you, too, Paper of Record of Judith Miller), put down your
stones. Social media mob, put down your noose. Have the guts to go after
the big cheese. Let Brian Williams get back to telling us about the
next big storm that's going to drop 3" of snow on New York City and the
exclusive report on the lost dog who made it home to help its handicap
master. (Note: I don't know Brian Williams personally, but I'll say this
about him: in the post-9/11 years, he did the nightly news hour on
MSNBC/CNBC, and he was one of the few people in TV news who would allow
an opposition voice such as mine on the air. I remember thinking this is
a man with integrity.)
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