checkmate

Its Official: The Red Queen is Programming the Sunday News Programs
Russert, Gigot and Infomercial News
by John Kelley
http://www.opednews.com/
Watching the Sunday pundit shows is always an exercise that most of the time varies from me making corrections of fact out loud to the TV set to out right hollering, but today was like watching an alternate universe. I tuned in to Meet the Press with Tim Russert interviewing Louis Freeh, Clinton FBI Director. This is the man who was in charge of internal security when Saudi terrorists were taking flight lessons in the U.S. but lived in a world where he reputedly refused to have a computer in his office. This is a man who in his book seems to indicate that he still thinks there is something to Whitewater. Given Freeh’s somewhat questionable success as an FBI director and obvious prejudices, the whole tone of the show was, well quite incredible. If memory serves me right, last week the President set new lows for public support, his top advisor and that of his vice president were both close to indictment for revealing classified information, the House Majority Leader is under indictment and the Senate Majority Leader is under investigation. It has become accepted fact that the President lied to put us into a quagmire, that his generals are saying it will take another eight years to win, the economy is hanging by a thread, the Republicans are gutting the environment and the President is arguing for right to torture people. On top of that there is the potential for a catastrophic pandemic that the president seems to be as prepared for as Katrina (which by the way is still an ongoing disaster), except he proposes sending in the troops to, I guess shoot people who violate the quarantine. So, back to Russert who has Freeh on, the man who quit just two months before 9-11. What does he ask? What did Bush know, how much information was given to Bush by the FBI, what was the administration’s reaction? No, he focuses on an allegation that Freeh makes in his book that President Clinton hit up the Saudi’s for a contribution for his presidential library. The two of them go on to focus on whether this is a crime............