in USA TODAY: I explain why anonymous sources were necessary for THE ROGUE
October 10, 2011
In an op-ed piece for USA TODAY, online tonight and to run in their print edition on Monday, I explain why, in addition to sixty named sources, I have some unnamed sources telling the truth about Sarah Palin.
The hypocrisy displayed by mainstream media–which uses anonymous sources constantly–has been breathtaking.
The New York Times wouldn’t print this piece–even after two of their reviewers attacked me for using anonymous sources in THE ROGUE.
USA TODAY is not afraid to run it.
I’ve also been following MSM coverage–or lack thereof–of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
Never has corporate control of mainstream media been more evident.
It’s as if they’re saying to the police: “Get these people off the streets! Next thing you know they’ll be coming after us!”
If it happens, it’s not without good cause.
Mainstream media is worse than “lamestream.”
It is “no stream,” trying to dam the flow of information about legitimate social protest taking place right here on the streets we live on, while focusing on turmoil in the Middle East in an attempt to distract us.
Sarah Palin was a big part of the circus of distraction for which MSM has been beating the drums.
They hate to lose her.
And they may never forgive me for my part in bringing her down–though, in fact, she brought herself down by overreaching.
Or by reaching at all.
“Hubris” doesn’t begin to define Sarah, because that word describes “overweening” or “exaggerated” self-confidence on the part of an individual who at least had some basis for self-belief.
I think “fraud” (i.e. “a person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities”) comes much closer.
If you want to keep going, look up the definitions of “grifter,” “scammer” and “scam.”
You might also want to check out “delusional,” as in someone who suffers from delusions
(i.e. “a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact.”)
For example: “God has told me he wants me to be President of the United States.”
Hey, in that case, as of last Wednesday, at least Sarah started on the road to recovery.
Let’s wish her well on her long, hard reentry into the real world.
And let’s do what we can to support “Occupy Wall Street” because it’s those people–not Sarah–that truly have our interests, not corporate interests, in their hearts.
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