AddieStan

In a fascinating piece of video, the fellas at PoliticsTV.com confront Time magazine contributor Joe Klein for going soft on President Bush, among other things. Klein's response is a fascinating bit of bob-and-weave, though he does make an arguably valid point about the public being as much to blame as the media for buying Bush's lies. Your blogstress certainly agrees that the public at large bears some responsibility for wandering around, channelling Rod Stewart (or Cheryl Crow): Still I look to find a reason to believe... However, let's not forget just from where the public learns of Bush's lies -- from people like Klein. And if people like Klein are advancing and soft-pedaling those lies, then the media needs to pick up the heavier end of the blame burden.

That's the question posed by Newsweek 's Michael Isikoff last night on MSNBC. Noting that the purported "mastermind" of 911, Khalid Sheik Mohammad, is in U.S. custody (presumably at Guantánamo), Isikoff is asking whether said mastermind will face trial in the U.S. Answering his own question, Isikoff, according to the host of "Hardball With Chris Matthews," predicted that a public prosecution of Mohammad will likely never come to pass because it would reveal the torture techniques, such as waterboarding, that were likely used to extract information from him. Well, that's one reason he's unlikely to face the scrutiny of a jury (not to mention the legal questions surrounding his "enemy combatant" status). Your blogtress dares to suggest, however, that it's not waterboarding revelations the administration fears, but rather the resurfacing of certain facts regarding the 911 plot that could raise questions about the administration's ro...