ALERT! ALERT! New York Congressman Weiner just had a news conference and admitted the pictures were of him, and that he sent them; he apologized but didn’t resign.
The corporate media in this country – and the nation by extension – have become a laughing-stock — here is a man in the public eye who made a stupid decision and the media are like sharks, covering this story here in NYC almost interminably day after day. Meanwhile, we have a president who violated the War Powers Act in regard to Libya and the same corporate media really don’t seem interested in that, or the previous president’s unnecessary war in Iraq, which, besides being illegal, has contributed to the trashing of America’s reputation, undermined our laws and Constitution, resulted in over 4,000 American deaths and tens of thousands of wounded, and hundreds of thousands if not a million Iraqi deaths in addition to who knows how many civilians wounded, and contributed immensely to our deficit and the further destruction of one of the Middle East’s most advanced nations — all not as newsworthy as a congressman’s stupid personal foible that had no effect except on his own family and the few other persons involved in his sending the pictures.
I guess it falls under a variation of the Christian New Testament parable’s story about the mote in someone’s eye and the “beam” in one’s own; the corporate media should read the holy book, not for divine guidance, but for some practical wisdom…
~ Greg Driscoll
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