Ari's hiss-tory

By Libby

It's long been known that the gang of thugs who dragged us into the ill-fated occupation of Iraq believe in creating their own reality, but this is ridiculous. Ari Fleischer has an op-ed in the WaPo today that basically says, the press did too ask tough questions and he offers up a list of the thorny queries that bedeviled his tenure as spokesliar for the administration. What he fails to mention is that the elite White House press corps then just meekly accepted the answers and dutifully transcribed the White House lies without putting them into any sort of context at all, much less challenging their veracity.

That's the complicity part that the worst perpetrators seem unable to admit -- even to themselves. Ari's defense of his media enablers would be laughable except that their joint deceits resulted in so much death, disorder and destruction. As it stands, it's just one more chapter in an overly long and tragic tale of negligence verging on treason.

Comments

[Pug]

Ari Fleischer probably thinks Judith Miller of the New York Times was real hard them. She really dug into their WMD bullshit, didn't she?

[Libby]

I'm sure he lived in terror of Judy. /snark