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A Low Down Dirty Rotten Shame
guest post by Ed Encho

“The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.”

-James Wolcott

It just never ceases does it? The endless propaganda, the countless lies, the slander, the demagoguery, the fear mongering, the distractions and of course the finger pointing. Rather than engage in solemn remembrance out of respect for the victims of the horrors of that pristine Tuesday morning five years past when America was viciously attacked the Republican one-party fascist government would rather resort to the same low ball tactics that are their hallmark. Karl Rove and his lackeys have chosen to dishonor the memory of the departed as well as to callously spit on their graves by once again resorting to trading on the 'capital' of their agonizing deaths for something as sleazy, tawdry and tainted as political gain.

It is of course not surprising then that there is yet another of those fortuitously timed Osama Bin Laden tapes that happen to pop up with amazing regularity and incredible synchronicity at exactly the moments when they are most beneficial to the Bush (and Bin Laden for that matter) agenda. This time it is the so-called “5th anniversary video” that is designed to be inflammatory as well as to rub more salt into what is still an open wound for most Americans. I predict that there will be plenty more between now and the first Tuesday in November as the diabolical one must now have plenty of time on his hands due to reports earlier this week of the Pakistani government’s peace agreement
with militant Islamic groups including the Taliban that were operating in North Waziristan. After much initial outrage (and immersion in the spin cycle)the announcement was qualified to state that such agreement did not apply to Bin Laden who has proven to be as adept a shameless exploiter of tragedy as are the Republicans and their bought and paid for shills in the corporate media.

Now in moving on to another film that has drawn much media attention in recent days, The Path to 9/11 is propaganda in it’s most odious form, passed off as a docudrama (a weasel word for fiction) and containing just enough truths to make the lies all the more potent. By claiming to be based on the official 9/11 Commission Report the filmmakers are seeking to wrap dishonest revisionist history in the cloak of legitimacy. The Path to 9/11 is at face value no more accurate than the Bush glorifying “DC 9/11: Time of Crisis” that portrayed 'Le Enfant Terrible' as a manly man and decisive leader along the lines of Harrison Ford’s ass-kicking President Marshall of the action flick Air Force One than anything resembling the ugly truth. In DC 9/11,Timothy Bottoms portraying Bush forcefully orders his plane back to Washington with the line “If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me! I'll be at home, waiting for the bastard!”. The ABC/Disney offering takes many similar liberties with the truth and much to the credit of bloggers and an emboldened bevy of Democrats is facing a withering barrage of justifiable outrage over not only the film's partisan agenda but also the cynical exploitation of the tragedy to bolster the GOP by further poisoning the well of public discourse.

With the outcry over ABC/Disney’s slimefest growing, questions also abound as to exactly who is behind it to begin with. Considering that the network is airing the film commercial free it is not exactly acting in the best interests of the shareholders to forsake what could be massive advertising revenue so what the fuck? Somebody has to be footing the bill for the $40 million swift boating mission and the question remains as to who. The network certainly had to know what it was getting into by green lighting such a big budget project involving a known right-wing shithack named Cyrus Nowrasteh whose ties to the ultra-vile David Horowitz make it apparent as to where his loyalty lies. Promomotional materials were also heavily distributed throughout the right-wing media network while the similar courtesy of providing advance copies to Clinton or any of their other targets was nonexistent. It was a crackerjack sleaze campaign designed to maximize the hype and then hit hard in the aftermath. Is it any coincidence that Rush the pigman has been scheduled for an appearance
on CBS new pride and joy ‘The Katie Couric Show’, formerly known as the CBS Evening News this very week?

I digress..

Let’s go back to that morning that the Rovians are so intent at reinventing and for the sake of brevity I am not going to go into the details of the myriad screw ups , official negligence and outright dereliction of duties that led to the murders of 3,000+ innocent civilians. The refresher course in a nutshell about all that you need to know regarding our national leadership that morning is that when those planes hit the towers ‘The War President’ was sitting in a Florida grade school classroom with his thumb firmly planted up his ass while he read from My Pet Goat; admittedly it wasn’t Camus (or The Fart Book for that matter) but was fare that was easily digestable by a self proclaimed proud C student who benefitted from a legacy scholarship at Yale where he majored in booze and spent a good amount of his spare time sucking off seniors in the Skull and Bones 'Tomb'.

When Junior was finally hustled out of Emma T. Booker Elementary School he spent the majority of the day flying around like a chickenshit while the so-called adults that are W’s crazy uncles Dick and Donnie ran the show with the kid safely out of the way. Whether he spent his time aloft rolled up in a fetal position sucking on this thumb and clutching his much ballyhooed personal pillow that he takes with him on trips is anybody’s guess and Karl Rove sure ain’t telling. As despicable as the alternate reality that Rove and the Republican one-party fascist government and their agents may be peddling it is easy to understand why it is to them far more preferable to the ugly truth that our strong daddy leader is a poseur, a fraud and a gutless coward of the highest order.

To those who will still cling the Bush-Rove-Cheney Axis of Evil’s version of reality and will bite hook, line and sinker on the fallacious premise of ABC/Disney’s $40 million charade that Bill Clinton allowed Bin Laden to escape I have two words for them: Tora Bora.

And to the Republican party and it’s loyalists I only have to ask: Have you no decency, have you no sense of shame?