From Scott Horton, once again, reminding us of a word that has become quite timely in the last six years. It is a sad day in America when one can't believe the words that come from an administration. The last time this happened, in my memory, was in the Nixon years. If only this president had the courage to resign, that even one of the men around him could admit a mistake, speak an honest sentence, not hide behind a curtain of secrecy. But these people are not made of that kind of stuff. And so what we get is Bullshit...
What follows is the last paragraph from a piece on I.F. Stone here:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000839
I watched President Bush’s news conference yesterday twice and came away with a sinking feeling. Our country is mired in bullshit. It’s dutifully noted and passed on by the media, who never take the time to observe that it’s bullshit. And too many journalists share the infamous view of the New York Times’s Elisabeth Bumiller, that you can’t challenge the statement of a person in authority. What we really, desperately need, is a whole squadron of I.F. Stones to shake things up a bit and give us a more contrarian perspective on truth and reality. In the meantime we have in the memory of I.F. Stone an important beacon.
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