The Whole Delivery

As everyone was certainly more than distracted on their 4th of July weekend, taking a break from the intense 24/7 grind of wondering why our country can't enact just common sense policy for the good of the collective in this nation, we received yet another stunningly and sad reminder of how far our journalism has placed itself in a continuing abyss. It once again came at the hands of Bill Keller, the man responsible for turning the "Old Grey Lady" into the "Ov Vey Shady" with every chance his hack personality gets. And what he uttered this weekend was frankly, as Glenn Greenwald said this weekend , "one of the more demented and reprehensible statements I've seen from a high-level media executive in some time." I would say in all time . Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, said the newspaper had written so much about the issue of waterboarding that “ I think this Kennedy School study — by focusing on whether we have embraced the po...

A lot on the right won't be happy when they see this Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move. I guess those Blackwater reports of lately from the Nation's Jeremy Scahill and just other things could have possibly pushed this, but maybe that's because I liked Scahill a heck of a lot as a great journalist. A special prosecutor indeed is a step, and this is a big development. But we shall see what happens here. And interesting that this news breaks on the day of vacation week starting for the President now. And notice in that article how Carrie Johnson, the writer of the linked article, continues to used "enhanced interrogation." Tisk, tisk, tisk. Most in the status quo media still won't call it the "T...

Conservative radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller may have seen the light after enduring this. And via Jed Lewison, the Chicago Sun Times has more videos of journalists exploring the joys of "TORTURE: waterboard style" as well: Never thought I would say this, but I guess Christopher Hitchens deserves some credit for starting a trend? Forget Sean Hannity, and focus on not only asking Dick Cheney this, but also, Liz Cheney if they would undergo this, as well.