The Big News Nobody's Heard About, Part II
Last night I finally saw something on CNN about the Downing Street Memo. Unfortunately they did everything they could to downplay its significance. In a belittling tone, Aaron Brown tried to answer "why it hasn't gotten the attention some -- some -- think it deserves" in America comared to the furor in Britain. His conclusion? The memo surfaced right before the British election, whereas the U.S. election had been over for months. Um...no? It think it's because the press in the U.S. is being censored. CNN questioned the relevance of the memo given that wht matters now is not the conditions leading up to war in Iraq, but what we should do now that we're there. Well I'm sorry, but if the President lied to us an manipulated facts, even if there's nothing we can do to fix the resulting disaster, we need to make him explain himself. Tellingly, CNN skirted the issue of Bush's deception, brushing it aside by airing a clip of Blair and Bush denying they fixed the facts. Oh see, they say they told the truth. Now we believe them. Good job, CNN.

I wrote them an angrygram. :D