BushWorld: Let's Focus On The Big Picture

Stephen Pizzo asks a very good question:

Instead of focusing on this administration's screw-up du jour, isn't it time for the mainstream media to start taking real account of the messes Bush has created already?

And if you think the media are guilty of sticking with the "screw-up du jour" story, most blogs are surely twice as bad!

This is why I have been getting increasingly frustrated lately. I have covered literally years of daily screw-ups (and worse, much worse) by the Bush cabal on this blog, yet still they come, day after day... What is actually being done about it?

Oh sure, the media are taking an increasingly critical line (but not too critical, of course). And sure, polls show Bush at historic lows. But polls change, poll-driven politicians follow suit, and the media swim along in the current, whichever way it flows.

Even the politicians currently embroiled in legal scandals, like Libby and Abramoff, stand a good chance of getting off if the political winds blow their way, particularly if their cases ever reach Bush's stacked Supreme Court.

They say you shouldn't kick a man when he is down, but this is exactly the right time to put the boot into George W. Bush and his corrupt colleagues. Because if Bush & Co can crawl out of this mess, we are all in for a whole lot worse!

Among other telling facts, Pizzo supplies a couple of diagrams to make his point that the past 5 years have been an abyssmal failure for Bush's USA:





And if you haven't seen it yet, this latest map of Blue versus Red states in the USA was published by Kos yesterday:



63 percent of people in the USA now want troops out by end of next year. A recent poll conducted in Iraq for the Ministry of Defense showed that over 70 percent of Iraqis want the Americans out too. Yet US newspaper editorials are still failing to call for a withdrawal. So what's going on?

Sure, the media's job is to report the news, not to make it. But the big picture of a totally failed presidency and a fallen USA is one story that most outlets are simply not reporting. It's not "irresponsible journalism" to tell it like it is, even when things are bad. Indeed, as we saw with the WMD lies, the really irresponsible journalist is the one who lets the bad news slide so as not to disturb the status quo.

Write to your local papers now, folks, and demand some real change.