Jonathan Schwarz: Business As Usual

tompaine.com

"Today, thank God, things are completely different. Now if the Bush administration were to make false statements about banned weapons in Iraq, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the networks would be all over them like a cheap biochemical suit.

Ha ha! No, just kidding, of course. Nothing has changed since the media swallowed the WMD garbage in the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The administration is still making blatantly false statements about banned weapons in Iraq, and the American media still won't call them on it. In fact, the media barely seem to notice?even when the false claims are made by President Bush, on primetime television..."