I awoke this morning to the dulcet tones of GW Bush being interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition. The interview was sunny and upbeat: GW Bush is writing a book about his father, and sharing stories about his father. "W" was asked about his brother's presidential ambitions, and said Jeb Bush is still deciding (not yet a decider?) on whether to run for president, but in "W"s opinion, Jeb Bush would make a fine president. Gw was at his affable best - light conversation with a folksy twang
Of course the interviewer did not ask any questions about GW's lying to the American public about the need for the two wars he started. Nor were there any questions about GW's confession on national TV about sanctioning the use of torture (a felony violation of US law and a violation of international treaties to which the USA is a signatory). On this Veteran's Day, there was no mention at all of the two failed wars started but not ended by Pres. Bush. Nor the 50,000+ Americans now suffering traumatic brain injuries as a result of those wars, and the failure of the Bush administration to provide adequate medical care for those injured.
A little later on, we heard a Veteran's Day story about two parents who lost a son fighting in Afghanistan. The father saying he heard the doorbell and saw the two Marines standing outside, and knew what that meant. His pain was plainly heard through the airwaves.
I cannot help but feel that NPR is now fully invested (or maybe that should be co-opted) in the Bush family name rehabilitation project. Yet I am surprised that the irony of juxtaposing a story on the chief architect of the Afghanistan/Iraq war disaster with a story about parents losing their children to that disaster seems to have escaped the editors at Moring Edition.
I used to like NPR's Morning Edition, and All Things Considered. But I notice Morning Edition no longer considers all things - like the criminality of their interview star GW Bush. And All Things Considered now seems to have morphed into All Things Conservatives Have Considered.
I have to find a new radio station. There's a local public radio station I get that features mostly classical music, and doesn't have the money to buy NPR's syndicated news shows. I like that station: I think I will send them a donation with the if they promise to never broadcast Morning Edition or ATC.