Awful ABC News reporting on 9/11 trial
November 16, 2009 2:47 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
Headline pretty much sums it up:
GOP Critics Blast Obama Administration Decision to Try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City
At ABC News, the fact that partisan GOP politicians who ran and lost during the 2008 campaign, and might do so again in 2012, are attacking an Obama administration initiative is news. So ABC News gives Rudy Giuliani and noted national security/terrorism expert Sarah Palin all kinds or space to record their attacks regarding the planned 9/11 trial.
On and on and on the article goes, quoting partisan Republican politicians (for 17 paragraphs) who don't like the idea of having open court trials in the United States. But here's the real kicker in the article; here's the real tell that tips you off to ABC's skewed perspective [emphasis added]:
Yet, Democrats defended the decision.
Excuse me? Republican unleash a partisan attack on the president, yet Democrats defend the White House? What kind of loaded language is that? The "yet" clearly implies that ABC thinks the GOP is dead-on in its analysis and that it's somehow odd or newsworthy for Democrats to defend the administration's decision.
Does ABC News think that just because Republicans "blast" the administration, Democrats should not defend its decisions? Did ABC ever run an article during the Bush years, detailing how Democrats blasted the GOP White House, and "yet" Republicans still defended it?
Without this benefit to us all, our elected and appointed government officials can forever pretend they get JUSTICE for the people, by rounding up whatever idiots they like, and accusing and convicting them for whatever offenses, and all of it beyond public inspection, leaving us in just a position of trust in our leadership, as we wonder and assume about whether JUSTICE has really been gotten for the offense (or whether the truly guilty skip free and undetected).
I bet you also already know that that's exactly why the criminal side of our political spectrum (the Bush Cheney Republican saudi "good friends" and business partners side), that's why they oppose these 9-11 trials in our judicial system.
They don't want the carefully crafted impression of JUSTICE for 9-11 to be disturbed in you or in other other Americans, if indeed you are under such a false impression... they don't want any public inspection of these Afghani idiots to be made, regarding 9-11.
It's why they have been held on a military base in Cuba of all places, all this time.
I bet you already knew that too.