Last week, I
wrote about the willingness of the
New York Times to retroactively edit a story that went so far as to point out the
gross and blood-stained apparent hypocrisies in Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s handling of our unhappy ally Pakistan, which occasionally frets over our policy of murdering its residents and citizens whenever we please. Well, that’s not a problem at CBS. As
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald points out, the Big Eye Network’s only burden is finding copywriters with stomachs strong enough to churn out sycophantic drivel like the following:
The Doomsday Plane [SecDef “flying command post,” aka “the Death Star”] is laden with secret gear. We can’t show you most of it. It’s so heavy the Air Force re-fueled it twice in the night’s sky over the Atlantic.
It turned out the lightest thing on board: the heart of the man with a world of worry. Leon Panetta is rarely far from an eyelid-collapsing, eye-shaking belly laugh.
And to people around him, it’s reassuring: with lives at stake, he stays in touch with his humanity.
And where he came from.
Greenwald, whose own stomach is far stronger than mine, sat through an entire
Sixty Minutes profile of Panetta presented by CBS correspondent and chief ass-kisser Scott Pelley, which featured footage of Panetta and Pelley in folksy guy outfits wandering under the walnut trees on Panetta’s childhood farm with Panetta’s golden retriever frisking underfoot. Hey, no bloody corpses here! No sobbing women and children!
Afterwords
According to Greenwalkd, when Pelley asks Panetta “in how many countries are we currently engaged in a shooting war?”, Panetta replies, “it’s a good question. I’ll have to stop and think about that.” Guys! Guys! No more margaritas for me. I don’t want to wake up in the morning and find out I’ve bombed Paris!
