Friday, October 28, 2005
Wow, I'm blaming Bush!
Reruns. Seymour Hersh thinks the problems of the world are going to vanish at the end of Bush's presidency, if this comment is any indication:
"I think the bad news is ... there's 1,180 days to go," he said. "The good thing, tomorrow morning when we wake up, there'll be one less."
He also stressed the lack of journalists in areas where voting occurred, and pointed to this as a cause for the lack of media attention on the many accounts of voter fraud.
"Anybody who seriously wants to do reporting there is walking through a death trap," he said.
So, uh, Mr. Hersh, how did you do your serious journalism, then?
Hersh also drew comparisons between the Abu Ghraib scandal and the My Lai Massacre during Vietnam War, where he blamed those in power for specifically recruiting minorities, those coming from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and holding lower levels of education.
"He simply wanted cannon fodder," Hersh said, regarding former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's preference of military recruits. "He wanted to get more black people in there."
A close reading seems to suggest that, if The Daily Cal is getting comments properly related (highly unlikely), Hersh is implying that it takes minorities to conduct a good massacre/run a torturous prison.
Most attendees reacted positively to Hersh's talk.
"I'm just amazed by the man's fountain of information," said Berkeley resident Larry Fishbein. "It's like getting a lesson in current American history."
Fishbein said he was surprised by the amount of information presentedby Seymour.
All right Daily Cal folks, you're getting closer. All you need to do is put the "Fishbein said..." line before the "'I'm just...'" line, and the way you write your article might actually make sense.
Peg Darby, another attendee, was shocked by Hersh's depiction of the apparent secrecy of the Bush administration.
"He has sealed himself off from any input from outside of a small circle," she said.
Peg is probably referring to Bush when she says 'he,' but the ambiguous antecedent is pretty appropriate, because she's right even if it refers to Hersh.
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