New Huffington Post Epic

Posted on 05/29/2008 at 4:26 pm by Bob Cesca

Sorry for the light blogging today. I was busy writing this epic.

Feel free to come back and comment here.

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  • ConstanceRifle

    Great piece! I saw that segment with David Gregory and my jaw dropped, but then I realized that of course they’re going to cover their asses. Journalists (if you can call them that anymore) are very, very good at squeezing out of sticky situations and deflecting blame to anyone but themselves (My roommate in college could get away with anything.)We need people like you to keep hammering these wastes of space until they grow a pair.So, keep hammerin’!

  • midad

    Really good Bob. I don’t know what we would do without the blogs. I hope you know you are very important to us.Last night Katie Couric asked Rove and Ari F. whether or not they had gotten together to share talking points. They denied this, of course. So they continued with the “this is not the Scott we remember” like he was the product of a body snatched pod thingy. Cannot wait to watch KO tonight. With any luck at all, this may mark the beginning of the end for this administration.

  • Larch Hill

    Bravo, Bob. And thank you. I’m grateful someone (besides those of us currently scream at, or at least talking back to, our television talking heads). You’re absolutely right in observing the deplorable, self-serving reaction of much of the mainstream media to the accurate accusation that they might have done a better job… or simply done their job. Again thank you, and keep up the fine effort.

  • ceu

    I am not convinced that the majority of the American people wanted to know the truth during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. There were pockets of us out here, but, by and large, the war was greeted with excited anticipation and huzzahs. Personal experience… I wrote one of the best pieces I’ve ever written against it, posted on a discussion board, and was ripped to shreds for my opinion. Amid cries of “everyone knows they have WMD” I cited people like Hans Blix, Scott Ritter (who is again speaking out about Iran), and Mohammed El Baradei. I pointed out that Chalabi was, IMO, working for himself. I listed questions that I felt every American (& journalist) should be asking – and was told I was unAmerican, a traitor, a nutcase, and should go back where I came from (for the record, my ancestors settled in America in 1630 – where was I supposed to go back to? Massachusetts??) How dare I question the government? The only prediction that didn’t come to pass was the question of whether China would weigh in on the side of Saddam, in an effort to get more oil, and thank God for that. Everything else, from the looting of the country to the turning of the Shiites & Sunnis into armed, opposing camps to the long-term no-exit-strategy occupation by American troops, sadly, came true. Very, very few people who commented to me agreed with me. And very few others on the InterTubes spoke about against it.Yes, I absolutely agree that journalists & reporters should have asked more questions, should have pressed harder for answers, should have presented more anti-war opinions and opposing facts, but, remembering the public opinion of the time, I’m not sure that it would have changed anything.On a sadder note – Mia Farrow’s nephew died in Iraq just before Memorial Day, while on his third tour there. His uncle, in a letter to The Rutland Herald, wrote:During his three 15-month tours in Iraq, exposure to roadside bombs and other job-related injuries caused Jason to be hospitalized several times for concussion and internal bleeding and other injuries. Recently, Jason’s condition was such that the Department of Defense flew him from Iraq to Dover Air Force Base for surgery. He was released from the hospital into the loving arms of the government who sent him directly back into Iraq. He was put on active duty while he was still on a liquid diet, unable to eat solid food because of a throat hemorrhage due to a botched surgery at a military hospital.http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080529/OPINION02/805290306/1037/OPINION02THIS, ladies & gentlemen, is what we have wrought by not questioning the administration and by sitting down & shutting up. Please, please don’t let it happen again with Iran.

  • ceu

    Shit – I apologize for that. I obviously got carried away at the keyboard.

  • http://eclectablog.efx2blogs.com Eclectablog

    With your permission (actually without it), I’ll just repost the comment I made on your essay at HuffPo. Thanks, Bob. You’re a gift and you totally need to keep on doing this.=======================SpecTACular essay! Brilliant analysis and spot-on assessment of how the MSM has failed us miserably over the past 7 years.Honestly, Gregory, if you (yes, YOU – YOU do it all the time) can turn lapel pins and ranty pastors into front-page headlines, screaming chirons, and incessant talking heads fodder, do NOT tell me that you couldn’t have made the American public stand up and take notice at the crimes that were being committed in their name and on their behalf. I like many of the mainstream pundits but that doesn’t mean they didn’t completely fail at doing their jobs on this. I hate to remind you of this but people, many people, are DYING because you messed this up.

  • http://richeyrich.wordpress.com/ Rich

    Jesus, Bob! I’m literally in tears, here. that column has encapsulated this whole thing utterly perfectly. I hold (and have held) David fuckwad Gregory and all of his ilk in as much or more contempt as I do Sean Handwipe and the fat man. Moreso because they are “supposed” to be the intelligent, dispassionate truth finders.Can I reprint your huffpo post on my blog? I wish that all of America the stupid could read and comprehend your words.

  • Mary

    If you haven’t watched this one – DO. So true, so true.http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/05/young-hillary-clinton.html

  • http://coalregionvoice.blogspot.com/ vuwildcat88

    Remember Gregory’s rap with MC Rove at the WH Corr. Dinner? Sometimes it is hard to understand rightwing nutery. They want the government out of their lives for everything, but give them a total green light when it comes to war.