Myself As Another

MSNBC has a reported that Fox News frequently receives “talking points” fed from the bush administration, according to former Press Secretary Scott McClellan. See the story here.

The bush administration, on countless occasions, has defended and championed the “fair and balanced” orientation of Fox News. The whole time they were doing this, they were feeding that same company “talking points” to further its own agenda and to frame the terms of political discussions so that they would be favorable to the bush administration. Fair and balanced. Not only is this “feeding” practice unethical (and likely illegal), but in doing so, the administration itself creates an environment which makes a blatant lie out of their own defense of Fox News as fair and balanced. Once again, as so often is the case with this administration, we can only choose from one of two possibilities: the intellect guiding this administration is too ignorant or blind to recognize it, or they were willingly perpetrating and perpetuating the situation with disregard for ethics or the law.

So the administration lies to us, spends money on a war we don’t want to be fighting, pays their closest business former and current business associates to wage that war, and calls into question anyone’s patriotism who calls for a change in those policies or momentum?

Read: morality = simple and unquestioned patriotism necessarily informed by dogmatic christian traditions.

Conclusion: To be conservative in all things requires great opposition to growth and opportunity; it also requires a willful disregard for problems associated with established institutions.

Ugh. I’m so angry I can’t even argue these points.

It’s like arguing gravity.

(Also, I’d like to note that I will never, personally, capitalize this president’s name again.)