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02/27/2004 Archived Entry: "Aaron Brown nails it."
Aaron Brown nails it.
I've had my ups and downs with Aaron - I actually had an ongoing exchange with him via email, back when the media was still in 'sacred presidency' mode.
Nice to see he's located his sense of outrage once more. From tonight's program:
"We admit we don't do "causes" very well on the program, and I don't do "outrage" well at all, yet tonight, a cause, and an outrage.The decision by the speaker of the house to deny the independent commission investigating the 911 attack on America a 60 day extention, that's all, 60 days, is unconscienable and indefensible, which no doubt explains why neither the speaker nor any member of the house leadership nor any of their press secretaries would come on the program to talk about it, despite repeated requests.
The commission itself has gone about it's work quietly. It has had to fight tooth and nail to get necessary information. And now this, an arbitrary decision to deny not just the commission, that's the least of it; but the country, the chance to know all of what happened, how it happened, and how best to prevent it from happening again. Perhaps the speaker and his team assume you do not care. I hope they're wrong. I hope you care enough to write them and email them and call them until they relent. Do that. Do it for the victims and their families, do it for the country that was attacked, and for history.
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It was real wierd. I watched as well.
I figured he was starting in on the whole Jeez biz, or a lost kid, or somthing about Martha. I almost dropped my ice cream when he started in on the administration. Way too cool.
Aaron grows some stones.
Posted by Andrew @ 02/27/2004 02:27 AM NY
It really makes no difference. America has become the fattest, richest, loudest, meanest and most ignorant nation on earth. I hardly think that one "reporter" waking up is going to change that. In a country where the education secretary calls the teachers union a terrorist organization can we expect people to be enlightened? In a country where laws intended to raise pollution levels are called the "clear skies initiative", and laws to cut down the forests are called the "healthy forest act", and a war to conquer and occupy an oil rich nation was called "operation Iraqi freedom” can we expect anyone to even pay attention anymore? Everything is bullshit, and everyone has either stopped paying attention, or has bought into it hook line and sinker.
The only thing that is going to turn this thing around is some kind of complete paradigm shift, or a bloody revolution, and I don’t see America being capable of the first, or giving a damn enough for the second. The sad fact is that things will have to get much worse before they get any better. In order for the world to change, things have to get so bad that the bourgeois middle class gets so angry that they riot. No revolution has ever been won by the proletariat. The poor are simply too oppressed and depressed to do it by themselves. On the good side (well, not really) the gap between the middle class and the oligarchy is growing so large that its starting to look like pre revolution France... lets just hope this can be done without all the guillotines and without all of the napoleon types stepping right in afterwards.
It’s all just so sad. 1984 just came 20 years late I guess….
Posted by justin @ 02/27/2004 11:13 AM NY
I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard it.
Welcome to the world, Aaron.
Posted by andante @ 02/27/2004 09:38 PM NY
