What follows is not a comment on the news biz.
At the top of Page 13 of the Albuquerque today is a story headlined "Congress May Boost Indecency fines."
Near the bottom of the page we read about and see a photo of the State of the Union hug between the mother of a dead US Marine who died in Iraq and an Iraqi woman who just voted for the first time.
I am happy for the Iraqi voter. And moved by the Marine’s sacrifice. Particularly when I read that he told his mother he was in Iraq to protect her.
But no, he wasn’t there for that reason. That was the lie his leaders told him. Which makes me wonder what indecency is. And if we ought to levy fines on politicians who tell young soldiers lies – about protecting their mothers, for example – so as to pursue neo-con geo-political schemes.
Janet Jackson’s exposed breast killed nobody.
George W. Bush, hiding and shading and misusing information, has snuffed out the lives of many thousands.
What’s indecent?