“The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.”
Glenn Greenwald
“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
At a point some years from now, when the White Fortress has been burned to the ground and the assorted criminals of Vichy DC dangle in the breeze, I’d like to see Obama’s Peace Prize torn from his cold, dead fingers and handed to Greenwald.