From the aftermath of the 2003 “shock and awe” bombing campaign all the way through Thanksgiving Day 2008, major US news outlets have nearly uniformly blacked out or downplayed reports of the Iraqi death toll. But a recent Associated Press article reveals the depths to which these outlets are still willing to delve to censor this information.
In the November 27 article “Iraqi Parliament OKs US Troops for 3 More Years,” by Christopher Torchia and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, AP editors approved the following characterization of Iraqi deaths suffered since the US invasion:
The war has claimed more than 4,200 American lives and killed a far greater, untold number of Iraqis, consumed huge reserves of money and resources and eroded the global stature of the United States, even among its closest allies.
How’s that for a statistically rigorous accounting? Full story »
Today, the executives of the Big Three return to Washington to pitch their case for federal assistance. Presumably they will not be blundering into town on corporate jets. Whether they will walk away with anything more than a political whipping remains to be seen, though given the current atmosphere they had better expect to be tied to the post.
I’m not an industry analyst, but my great-grandmother swung rear axle assemblies for Chrysler; my grandfather on the other side retired from the FoMoCo; both a brother and an uncle currently work in the industry; and i was raised in a UAW town dominated by three auto plants. You can take the boy out of Detroit, but you cannot take Detroit out of the boy. And i can tell you that the bullshit in this “debate” piles up so fast that you’d need wings to stay above it.
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No, not on the national security team — get real. And not exactly a top job — her power as head of a panel. . . .
extends a bit beyond the “bully pulpit” but falls far short of a veto over specific proposals or programs
I speak of Elizabeth Warren, who, in a move I completely missed, was named by Harry Reid to be chairperson of the federal bailout oversight panel. Full story »
From the aftermath of the 2003 “shock and awe” bombing campaign all the way through Thanksgiving Day 2008, major US news outlets have nearly uniformly blacked out or downplayed reports of the Iraqi death toll. But a recent Associated Press article reveals the depths to which these outlets are still willing to delve to censor this information.
