Journalists are letting our leaders get away with murder

DB on Tour: It's goddam hot and the reasons for being in Spain are too convoluted and hard-to-beleive to convey here, suffice it to say.......nothing (lest you die). Here is a post....

Guardian: Flattering the popinjays

[..] Today, of course, we have Vietnam II, the BBC is in tatters, Deep Throat turns out to be a mad-eyed geezer with a book deal and Ellsberg is still appealing for whistleblowers when no one will print their revelations unless they involve pierced labia, or Castro having sex with a dog. While all other public figures cannot appear in any format without being at least partially naked, sexually reassigned and/or masturbating a farm animal, our politicians are cocooned by embedded sycophancy. Not that I'd want to see Blair stripped with his parts in a jar and laying hands on a helpless donkey, but equally I am very tired of bombshells such as the Downing Street memo bringing us no nearer a transatlantic war crimes tribunal. Read more