Truthiness
Jun 23rd, 2006 at 7:24 am by Susie
Greg Palast on Dan Rather, his coverage of Bush’s National Guard “service,” and the silence of the media lambs:
The lynching of Dan Rather is a cautionary tale of how news is made in the USA — and unmade — and topics permissible during an election. The story that cannot be reported is not about George Bush’s special treatment but about the special treatment of the specially privileged.
The real story, for me, is that Little George was just one of a dozen privileged princelings saved from the dangers of their powerful daddies’ wars. Barnes did not give help to Bushes only. The man who actually made the call to the Air Guard for Little George at Barnes’ request also confirmed that at Barnes’ request, he also put in the fix for sons of Democratic big-wigs, Governor John Connally and Congressman, later Senator, Lloyd Bentsen.
Vietnam was one front in a class war, and only one class was sent to fight it. I don’t blame Congressmen Bush Sr. or Bentsen for keeping their sons out of Vietnam. I do blame them for sending other men’s sons in their place.
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