And Speaking Of Bravery ...

Geez, I hate citing Glenn Greenwald. Not because of what he says (he's brilliant) but he's says so much and never stops updating and he's not real good with the quicky quote and he's a little clumsy style-wise and and ...

Anyway.

We have a lot of free time this week. Go Visit Glenn over at Salon where he's dealing with the Media's complicity in maintaining support for torture.

Because the big media claimed to use a calculus that equates any assessment of objective fact as 'subjective', they have for the last 8 years simply been stenographers for Bush/Cheney Orwellisms (think Judy Miller):

"war crimes" were transformed into "policy disputes" between hawkish defenders of the country and shrill, soft-on-terror liberals. "Torture" became "enhanced interrogation techniques which critics call torture." And, most of all, flagrant lawbreaking -- doing X when the law says: "X is a felony" -- became acting "pursuant to robust theories of executive power" or "expansive interpretations of statutes and treaties" or, at worst, "in circumvention of legal frameworks."