Could it be totalitarian? And could we, the United States, be getting closer and closer to joining that particular circle of hellish limbo?
I’m afraid those are exactly the conclusions prompted when our servile “mainstream” news media allows ex-President GW Bush to disclaim any responsibility for the many atrocities unleashed by GWB and his administration. That interview Dubya did with the Dallas paper was such a snow job that I won’t even link to it.
But Jodie Evans and Charles Davis at Common Dreams are among the many voices–largely excluded, however, from the “mainstream” conversation–who would prefer Bush to explain away his presidency from the defendant’s well of a war crimes trial.
Charles P. Pierce at Esquire’s blog isn’t afraid to speak his mind and vent his disgust as well. (He has a job and isn’t in jail, so at least we’re still some ways short of the farther shore.)
Outside the commercial “mainstream,” but like Common Dreams very much on the essential rolls of reality-based media is Alternet, where Steven Rosenfeld itemizes 50 awful things GWB did, beginning with instigating a judicial coup d’etat.
I was in St. Petersburg soon after the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority installed W as President. I remember discussing that example of “Amerikanski Fascism” over a late night Russian repast.