Alberto Gonzales: Who CARES!!

Cyrano’s Journal -

Who decides when there’s a scandal? It can’t be us regular folk, for although we can stage the largest political protests in world history denouncing the lies of an American President (like those on Feb. 15th, 2003, according to Guinness,) there has yet to be a fire as far as the media establishment can see. For all the talk about a failed presidency among today’s journalists and broadcasters, no major media outlet actually investigated the lies of this administration and conclusively settled the issue. No major newspaper or news program yelled “fire!”

Thankfully, some of us do shriek and blister in an inferno, and those who see dishonesty as a grave crime did just that before the white-hot lies of the White House. Those lies included the link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, the false claim that Iraq could harm the UK within minutes, or that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But despite the unprecedented scale of public protest, no headlines in the style of yellow journalism reading “SCANDAL!!: PRESIDENT MISLEADS AMERICA” were to be found.

When several attorneys got fired from the Justice Department, not so much as a fart came out of a grassroots group or protester, yet THAT became a political scandal of front-page news proportions. The result? A congressional investigation and subsequent resignation of the said Attorney-General.

I’m so jealous!! How many rallies did we regular people stage, denouncing, among other things, the Attorney-General John Ashcroft and the USA-Patriot Act? His resignation only came after his health deteriorated.

This is like the forced resignation of New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi, a competent comptroller who was forced to resign after he used state employees to drive his wife around – the kind of scandal that impacts no New Yorker. Yet the state government and local press cut him to pieces and he eventually had to resign or get fired. Never mind the corruption of Rudolph Giuliani!

So I’m not happy that Alberto Gonzales was compelled to resign. I wish he could stay. For although our President has lied and destroyed three countries during his term, it is irrelevant shit like this Gonzales scandal that gives the Congress and the press a deluded a sense of justice.