Now that we know where their family money came from, it’s so much clearer!
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Now that we know where their family money came from, it’s so much clearer!
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Yes, and look how far the Bush dynasty has come. For example.
WTF? We’re there, alright. In fact, we never left.
Damn, that’s a backgrounder that vanished into the ether. I wonder if most journalists have had histori-ectomies (and can’t remember the past), or if this is just intellectual laziness. Maybe it’s just a case of present-ism, where anything older than yesterday is not news worthy.
There was the CNN anchor, who in 2003, cutoff an interviewee when he mentioned that Saddam Hussein had been a longtime tool of US diplomacy in the region during the 1970s and 1980s. “We’ll have none of that conspiracy talk here…,”said Jim Clancy, shutting down the mike.
At the time, I thought it was censorship. But it was really something more visceral, a technique from the cool kids in high school. It was an adolescent emotional reaction to something that was so out-of-bounds that it had to be instantly dismissed.