Battered-media syndrome

and the wapo is reporting this nearly six years later because...?

President Bush's troubles with congressional Republicans, which erupted during the backlash to the Dubai seaport deal, are rooted in policy frustrations and personal resentments that GOP lawmakers say stretch back to the opening days of the administration.

you can't tell me that there was no one in the media who didn't know about this or was unable to develop a credible off-the-record source to inform the american people that all was not in rosy lockstep in the r's camp... what makes it so much worse is the wapo's incredible disingenuousness in deflecting attention from their own responsbility by citing things like this...

Congressional scholar Norman J. Ornstein has written that the recently vented anger, after being suppressed for years out of loyalty or fear, might be seen in psychological terms. He called the condition "battered-Congress syndrome."

the utter failure in this article to even hint at any media role in playing along suggests to me a "battered-media syndrome" and tells me that the power of rove, cheney, et al, has been such that, until the on-going collapse of popular support was so massive that it could no longer be ignored, there was no feeling of safety in reporting anything other than administration spin and lies...

now, while i understand the strong instinct for survival in the face of the r's undeniable capacity for wreaking both career and personal destruction, to continue to sit on the sidelines while your country is being systematically trashed is complicity of the worst sort...

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Niemoeller

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