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I thought I could go maybe one day without the Bush administration giving me a cardiac arrhythmia...but no such luck.
Coming home from dinner, the perky female ABC radio new announcer---Jackie somebody---gave her audience this top story (and it is so bogus I believe I'm recalling it verbatim):
"Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says Saddam Hussein could have avoided the Iraq war if he had only dismantled his weapons of mass destruction."
My full-throated response:
"HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!! THE IRAQ WAR COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF RUMSFELD HAD LISTENED TO THE U.N. INSPECTORS!!!"
Y'know, we grumble a lot about TV and web-based media laziness, but network radio is quite possibly the worst, where stories are summed up in neat little 10-second packages with no analysis. If Jackie whatsherface had half a brain, she might have questioned Rumsfeld's propaganda statement. Alas, it went unchallenged.
And so it goes.
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