Time and Newsweek: Blacklist and Ass-Kiss

Thomas Friedman's Blacklist

In Time Magazine, Thomas Friedman said he wants people blacklisted for criticizing the legitimacy of the Iraq war. He has the nerve to say this even though our own government had much closer, fresher ties to the Taliban than Saddam Hussein did. Case in point:: the US Government gave the Taliban $23 million  six months prior to 9/11 for a doing a good job 'eradicating poppies'! Yea, right.

Of course the invasion of Iraq has spurred violent reprisals. We knew it would happen, that blow-back was inevitable. It has been said, accurately, that George Bush is the best recruiting sergeant Al Qaeda ever had.

Mr.  Friedman and Bill O'Riley would like government blacklisting of anyone who speaks the truth (actually, Bungalow Bill would go a lot further, according to his rhetoric). The fact is these two are propagandists for a war profiteering machine that is trying to stifle all opposition. They and their superiors are the antithesis of the founding fathers, who welcomed debate.

As for their assertion Air America Radio staff are traitors, at least they never outed a CIA agent as part of a political reprisal.  

Newsweek Parrots Official Line on Roberts

In an August 1, '05 story about John G. Roberts' role in the Florida recount and his connections to the Federalist Society, Newsweek asserted that his role in the former was minimal, and his involvement in the latter was hyperbole. It then went further and denigrated bloggers for reporting otherwise.

It's turned out they bought into the White House's lie like rubes. Roberts' involvement in the fateful Florida election sham was much deeper than the official line purported, and he was on the steering committee of the Federalist Society, waffling about whether he paid dues or not notwithstanding. It's looking as if the appointment is mere political payback after all. You'd think that after all the spin and lies in the past that Newsweek would know when they're being shucked. Perhaps they do.