The Facts And The Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
As I read this quote it occurred to me that the pundits have learned that if you baffle the public with the facts you don't have to pay attention to or report the truth.   And there is damn little reporting of the truth these days.  Let me give you an example.  As usual I watched and listened to several news programs tonight and I was once again astounded by the lack of objectivity or curiosity.   In this case Chris Matthews was fawning over his guest, the venerable Karen Hughes.  Let me be blunt.  Chris you looked ridiculous.  Here was an obviously partisan politician – attempting to turn diplomat – using factually accurate misinformation and not answering the questions put to her while twisting the facts to her purposes and Matthews was lapping it up like some puppy at the milk bowl.   You call that Hardball?  Give me a break.  It was softball with kisses.   That interview was immediately followed by the biggest PR piece I have seen in years.  Chris brings on Brian Williams as his guest and was reporting on Williams "day with the president".   What a namby pamby piece.  First of all I find it very difficult to believe that the White House didn't have advance copies of the questions Williams was asking.   Second the answers were all the usual canned stock he gives with every speech.  Why can't the "liberal" news media get at the truth?   Why do you all keep asking the same old hack questions and accepting the same old hack answers.
I've said this a dozen times right here on this blog.  Any rational thinking person can do a little research and figure out what this administration is all about.   But not one reporter will ask the tough questions off the cuff or go in search of the truth and report that truth back to the American people.  It is in my book damned unpatriotic and dare I say traitorous to not go after the truth and question the president along with the rest of this administration.  You yourselves, reporters, have previously recorded statements made by this administration and the president himself that simply were not true.   Why don't you go after the real answers?
Tonight during Chris' interview with Hughes she kept talking about a democratic Iraq and a "democracy deficit" in the Middle East.   Where on earth did this sudden, and I do mean sudden, concern for democracy and eliminating the "democracy deficit" in the Middle East come from.  According to this administration the Iraq war was never suppose to have been about nation building.  This is the administration that ran on a platform that included "not doing nation building".  At no time and in absolutely none of the pre-invasion speeches given by the president or by any administration official was democracy in Iraq the stated intent or goal.   Why do we now allow this administration to place this front and center as our reason for being in Iraq?  What happen to WMD?   What happen to the Al Qaeda connections?  What happen to imminent threat to the United States?  They're not there, that's what happened to them.   They're not there and they never were there and that is where the lying comes in and that is where the "liberal" media should come in.
As of today 2,151 American soldiers have died and over 15,500 have left their blood and body parts in Iraq.   Our nation's life blood and its wealth and security are being pored down the drain of Iraq; a country whose people overwhelmingly want us out of their country now.  These are the facts and the truth.
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