A Tom Chambers Documentary?!
posted by NathanFrom a piece by David Sirota at Common Dreams...
Bill Moyers' PBS special last night on the media's complicity in
pushing America to war was so powerfully upsetting that I am forced to
resort to using mid-1990s NBA metaphors to describe it, if only
because describing it without a metaphoric buffer is just too
depressing. This production was the documentary equivalent of Tom
Chambers famously jumping over a screaming Mark Jackson and hammering
down one of the greatest, most in-your-face slam dunks in history. To
call the media's complicity in the Iraq War a conspiracy is an insult
to conspiracies, because it wasn't hidden - as Moyers shows, it was
all out there for everyone to see. The problem was, Beltway reporters
didn't want to see it. As New York Times White House correspondent
Elisabeth Bumiller famously admitted, in the lead up to war most
self-respecting Washington journalists who wanted to stay on the White
House Christmas card list refused to ask tough questions because "no
one wanted to get into an argument with the president."
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1 Comments:
I LOVE Tom Chambers... or as I affectionately refer to him...Tom.
Nathan, do you remember how I made my mom drive me to Thomas Mall- circa 1989 to have him sign not only my shoes (which were guys' "non-air" Nikes that I smoothly called "Air Toms") but my enormous orange pillow with the Suns logo from the 1970's that JERRY COLANGELO'S MOTHER gave my GRANDMA OGIBOVIC!?!!? I fantasized about that tall drink of water for all of junior high school. I loved his sunken eyes, scary hair, three kids with "modern 1980's" names like Skylar and his watered down mormon ideals. By the way... did you see the Frontline special on THAT? Since when do you associate with Moyers? Can you please describe the build up to war next time with metaphors involving Dan Majerle's magnificent profile, alleged homosexuality, or both? Do you know I saw him at First Watch in Phoenix while I was eating the Bubba's Benny and my Dad was making me pass out fliers to industrial neighborhoods in between visits to Camelback Computers?
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