Tom Tomorrow: " Of Course..."

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Tom Tomorrow:
“Of course…”
Olbermann’s guest, the NSA whistleblower, got me to thinking: what other things that we already pretty much understand to be true will be confirmed as fact in the weeks and months ahead? This is the list that I’ve come up with so far. (Spoiler alert: this feels like something that will probably turn into a cartoon in the next week or two, so if you prefer to be surprised there, you might want to skip this one.)

1. The aforementioned spying on journalists. Of course they were spying on journalists. And there was that oddly specific moment where Andrea Mitchell, in the course of interviewing New York Times reporter James Risen about his reporting on the NSA and government wiretapping, asked if he knew anything about the administration spying on Christiane Amanpour — a question the network promptly scrubbed from the transcription.

2. Of course Cheney was running everything, at least for the first term.

3. Of course they made backroom deals with their pals at Halliburton, Enron, etc.

4. Of course they were lying about Iraq from the start.

5. Of course torture was sanctioned at the highest levels.

6. Of course Valerie Plame was deliberately outed in retaliation for Joe Wilson’s op-ed debunking the yellowcake uranium story.

7. Of course male prostitute turned fake journalist Jeff Gannon was having an affair with someone in the White House.

8. Of course we came close to war with Iran.

9. Of course someone was feeding Bush answers during that presidential debate where you could clearly see a square shape under the back of his jacket — a camera angle that the administration had specifically demanded the network not use. And there’s the point where he interrupts his own answer to chastise someone no one else can see — of course he was wearing a wire.

10. I’m not sure if this one counts as an “of course,” but I’ve long suspected that Bush has some sort of neurological disorder which worsened over the course of the past eight years. If you go back and look at clips from his days as governor, it’s almost shocking how articulate and quick he seems. I mean, yes, we can all chuckle, ha ha those wacky malapropisms, in the way that you might have had a good natured chuckle about Ronald Reagan’s absent mindedness, until years later when you realize with dawning horror that the man with his finger on the button probably had early stage Alzheimers. Bush was inarticulate eight years ago but these days he can barely string a sentence together.

11. And maybe an overall generic entry: of course the truth will turn out to be much, much worse than we ever suspected.

This is all off the top of my head, so — what am I forgetting? Suggestions to tomtomorrow (atsymbol) ix (dot) netcom (dot) com.

… of course I go out and run a few errands, and am swamped with reader suggestions when I get back. Most of these came in repeatedly, including many suggestions that my “neurological disorder” theory might more easily be formulated as “of course George Bush was drinking again.”

– Of course Alberto Gonzales fired those attorneys for political reasons.

– Of course the White House emails were deliberately deleted.

– Of course more than two hundred thousand Iraqis were killed and more than a million displaced.

– Of course there were plans to suspend elections in the event of another terrorist attack.

– Of course Bush decided to invade Iraq in October, 2002.

– Of course the administration leaked important details of ongoing investigations by federal agencies before the completion of the investigation for purely politically expedient reasons, thus compromising the security of the cases, alerting accessories, and endangering Americans.

– Of course Whittington’s shooting involved a criminal coverup.


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[XOKCowboy]

1. TT has a great blog..

I hadn't checked it lately and thanks for this post. Is there any question among us if any of the above "of course"'s are true? We've known it all along. The problem is it didn't matter to the Repugs and their media machine made sure it didn't matter to anyone else.

[bleever]

2. The "of courses" reel off so quickly it's hard to even get them all on paper.

It will take a while for the most important points to really become prominent, out of the flood of revelations.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. and yet, the RW "pundits" will continue to deny what is obvious to the rest of the world.

Are they really THAT stupid, or is it that they think the rest of the world is stupid??

[wroberts189]

4. Excellent post ..thank you k&r

[defendandprotect]

5. Of course they stole 2000 and 2004 . . .

and I think this has been on-going over four decades ---

also moved along by political violence.

http://www.constitution.org/vote/votescam__.htm


Of course, 9/11 also falls into the domain of the true terrorists = Bush/Cheney.

Would they lie to get us involved in two wars, but fail to act to create the

"Pearl Harbor" they knew had to take place first?

Plus the WTC towers were going to have to come down -- however no demolition was

to be allowed -- a very expensive dismantling/scaffolding system was to be carried

out. After the musical chairs of ownership/security/insurance -- viola!

350 firemen dead -- they could protect themselves from fire but not from bombs they

didn't know were in the building.

And thousands more sacrificed on the altar of rising fascism in America.

The Rise of the Fourth Reich -- now merely interrupted ....