The News Is Like A Soap Opera

I haven’t been writing about world events or politics the last week or so. I’m sure you noticed the absence of ranting and raving particularly about the Bush administration around here.

Of course, there are a couple reasons for that.

I’m sure you’ve noticed my current focus on NaNoWriMo. That’s going to take quite a bit of time and energy this month. If you think it’s easy, sign up and write a 50K novel too.

But on a more serious note, I’ve been watching the news and the headlines and skimming my usual blog haunts (though a little less frequently since the beginning of NaNo), but what I’ve realized is that the unfolding news is more like a soap opera than anything else. What I mean is that the media and bloggers alike seem to be painfully dragging out every story, repeating yesterday’s version of it if nothing new has occurred. The headlines on CNN today look pretty much like the headlines from yesterday and to me they have a strong resemblence to headlines from last week.

Not to mention that I’ve come to realize that while a lot of anti-Bush administration folks are celebrating the fall of Libby with parties and booze and song and dance, it’s really nothing to cheer about. An official high in our Presidential administration has been indicted, accused of commiting crimes. This is a sad, serious time for our country. We’re supposed to be role models of democracy and here we are showing our corrupt spots, proving to the world that it doesn’t matter what type of country you are, power is still abusable and corruptable…and everything implied in Libby’s indictment suggests something more sinister and involvement from someone even higher up in the administration.

To me, this sort of dirty laundry is far worse than weather or not a President had a mistress or an affair. To me, this sort of dirty laundry harms our credibility as a nation pushing it’s ideals on other countries.

It’s just so sad and so I haven’t basked in the glory of the indictment and everything it could mean like other liberals. I just can’t.

It’s kind of strange because I thought I’d be happy to be proven right but to be honest, when it’s this kind of right, it’s just disheartening. I think I’d really rather been a conspiracy loon than be proven right about these things.

Tags: politics, Scooter Libby, Conspiracy Theories

True or False — Grand Jury Indicts Bush & Others?

I’ve seen this in a couple places on the internet the last couple of days. As I haven’t seen it yet printed in any “official” sites, I don’t know how true it is (and these days it’s really hard to tell who’s telling the truth and who’s not…which I think was the GOP’s plan all along.)

Federal Whistle Blower Claims Chicago Grand Jury Indicted Bush And Others For Perjury and Obstruction Of Justice; U.S. Attorney’s Office Says ‘No Comment,’ Refusing To Confirm Or Deny Alleged Indictments

That headline comes from the Artic Beacon, which hails itself as “the last frontier of truth”. As I just stumbled on them, I can’t say one way or another if that’s true.

Although the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago is staying silent, it is well known that Fitzgerald is digging deep into an assortment of serious improprieties among many Bush administration figures based, in part, on subpoenaed testimony provided by former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

According to federal whistleblower Tom Heneghen, who recently reported on www.truthradio.com, Powell testified before the citizen grand jury that President Bush had taken the U.S. to war illegally based on lies, which is a capital crime involving treason under the U.S. Code.

“Regarding the Powell testimony, there is no comment,” said Sanborn.

However, sources close to the federal grade jury probe also allegedly told Heneghen a host of administration figures besides Bush were also indicted, including Vice-President Richard Cheney, Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, imprisoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller and former Senior Cheney advisor Mary Matalin.

Heneghen, unavailable for comment and first reported by internet reporter Tom Flocco, allegedly also told sources White House Advisor Karl Rove was indicted for perjury in a major document shredding operation cover-up and that Prime Minister Tony Blair was also indicted for obstruction of justice charges.

The article goes on to discuss a whole Watergate-type conspiracy involving bomb scares and attempts to get Fitzgerald, who is “Special Counsel to investigate the CIA- Valerie Plame case,” fired.

As much as I want this to be true, I hate to admit that I need more “reliable’ confirmation. I mean, Kenneth Star’s investigation was daily big news and so far, I haven’t heard a peep, even on NPR, my most trusted source…though lately, I’ve been wondering about them too.

Tags: Patrick Fitzgerald, George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Andrew Card, Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Judy Miller, Karl Rove, PlameGate, Conspiracy Theories