John King has no self-awareness.
More Dick Cheney Fellatio Watch: Andrew Sullivan gives credit to, then destroys the fawning John King, who seems to absorb GOP/Beltway memes like Bounty.
In King’s words, the black sites were simply “where they interrogate terror suspects,” in almost the exact same terms that the last president used to conceal what was done there. King then follows up by saying that Obama has “defined waterboarding as torture”, where the truth is that Obama has no more power to define waterboarding as torture than Cheney has in denying it. The law has always clearly and categorically defined it as torture.
But telling the truth – and confronting the powerful with it – ruins the aura of objectivity; and offends sources whom one needs for future scoops. It makes an interview unpleasant and confrontational, when both Cheney and King go out of their way to signal their familiarity and almost friendship with one another.
What did Dick Cheney do to turn the Washington press corps into a gang of wide-eyed aw-shucks golly-gee teenagers who want to be just like him when they grow up? How many times do these things need to be pointed out for John King to gain some self-awareness and sense of shame?
-jb
UPDATE: Greenwald brings out the nukes.
For many of these sycophantic, needy TV journalists, Dick Cheney is still the icon of Serious Protective Republican Authority — that which, more than anything, merits our deep respect and gratitude.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Good old liberal media. It never fails.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:26 am
WTII,
You’re a moron. Dick Cheney will soon be a convicted war criminal. His crimes are public knowledge and everyone with any sort of legal training agrees that all evidence points to crimes that violate American law, the U.S. Constitution (Bill of rights Amendments 4th and 6th and probably also the 1st.) committed directly by Cheney.
Only legal hacks like John Yoo and David Addington disagree. And then there’s you.
This article is a response to a disgustingly sychophantic television interview in which softball questions were gently lobbed at a former Vice President who has some serious questions to answer whenever he comes out from under his rock.
This represents the “liberal” media? Or the fact that someone had the temerity to call John King on completely failing to do his job? That’s the liberal media?
Stick to listening to Rush, Hannity, Glen Beck you won’t have to spend the energy to come up with snappy comments.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Thus WTII’s use of sarcasm…
Be careful before you pop off on somebody.