So, the guy Bush placed as head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) resigns for 'personal reasons', and the media is licking its lips, looking forward to tweezing out all the salacious details of the DC Call-girl ring.
Wouldn't it be better to ask why the Bushies felt that it was beneficial to install as head of that agency, a guy whose former position was as....ready?....chairman, president and chief executive of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company.
I like to watch the corporate ABC evening news, to see just how selective and skewed their coverage of the day's events are, but, to me, the most amazing aspect of Corporate News is the parade of phamaceutical ads. The profits must be mighty indeed for this industry to have so successfully bought into both Big Media and Big Government.
THAT's the story worth pursuing, not the 'massages'.
Back to the ABC Evening News - their 'coverage' of the Democratic candidates forum (I was going to write 'debate' - how silly) consisted of a very brief wide-shot of the group, followed by very short close-ups of Hillary and Obama. The copy behind the pictures was 'not much happened.'
I am amazed they passed up the opportunity to play Gravel's clip dissing the front-runners, but impressed how, once again, they managed to suppress any reference to He-Whose-Existence-Must-NEVER-Be-Acknowledged (Kucinich). Instead, they hurried on to a shocking, revealing, controversial segment about how Baby Boomers have lots of money to spend on luxuries.
Hoping to head downtown this afternoon to participate in the A28 Impeachment rally. East end of the Hawthorne bridge - noon.
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