07/16/2008
United States motto changing from "E Pluribus Unum" to "I Can't Recall."
Cpl. Pat Tillman
Over and above the mysteriously vanishing e-mails from the White House covering the period that Cheney was orchestrating the outing of Valerie Plame; over and above the picture of Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General and all-round sleazebag and his memory lapses in front of Congress, the NY Times asked an interesting question: Who provided the lies in the "heroic" death of Pat Tillman and the "heroic" rescue of Jessica Lynch?
This comes in reaction to the House Oversight Committee's report on perception management by the Republican regime. There's a bit more detail from McClatchy.
No one who's been asked under oath remembers. Not one person. Not Donald Rumsfeld, not Gen. Richard Meyers (head of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff), not the press officers involved, not the immediate command in the field. Not a single person remembers how Tillman's death from his own troops transformed itself into a bunch of leering Afghani terrorists sneaking up on an NFL star. And Jessica Lynch's "escape from her evil captors," a combination of Ariel/Rambo elements that qualifies as a fascist PR person's dream, was a whimsy that belongs in a fairy tale.
And on top of the memory "lapses," the Times notes:
There was also a puzzling absence of documents that logic suggests should have existed. In some 1,500 pages of White House e-mail messages and other documents about Corporal Tillman, there is not a single mention of fratricide.
Of course the Times (and the rest of the media) are complicit in the word-for-word stenographic reproduction of this BS when it happened; after all, one wouldn't want to risk a charge of partisanship by expressing any skepticism of a statement by Donald Rumsfeld.
Better late than never, I suppose.
UPDATE:
John Ashcroft don't recall too good, neither.
Pvt. Jessica Lynch