September 15, 2006

After listening to one hour of American self-flagelation last Monday, the anniversary of 9/11, and on the side hear the BBC's feature story about Muslim persecution in post-9/11 America Friday's News roundup was actually...refreshing.

This week's panel? Guest host: Susan Page, USA Today
with guests Jeanne Cummings, of The Wall Street Journal, Trudy Rubin, foreign affairs columnist and editorial board member at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the token conservative Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of "The Washington Times."

However, this week you did not hear:

Anything about former President Jimmy Carter complaining about how Joe Lieberman was "one of the originators" of the rationale for President Bush to go to Iraq. But old Jimmy didn't mention any of the long list of Democrats that said the same things Joe said from 1998 to weeks before the action against Saddam.

Anything about the "women in white," the women who protest the jailing of political dissidents in Cuba, including 75 of the panelist colleagues, at the beginning of the obsolete gathering of the Nonaligned nations (more like the gathering of the mobster scene in Havana in The Godfather).

Anything about the two confiscations, one about 30 days ago, and one yesterday of loads of cocaine coming from Venezuela in regular freight ships. One from Cuba also.

That is why this week was refreshing. At least the media bias was not so pro active this week. They must be tired watching how nothing they try sticks.