IS ANYONE OUT THERE LISTENING?

A DISTURBING INQUIRY
By Contributing Editor - TvNewsLIES.org - June 2005

Maybe that’s the wrong question. Maybe I should ask if anyone out there
is SCREAMING! I know I am, and I’m ready to blow.

The man holding the news conference used that phrase again, the one
about our winning in Iraq, and they let him get away with it. The pseudo
journalists at the White House news conference let him get away with it
and I came that close to smashing my TV with a baseball bat. It’s
gotten that bad.

The man went on to say, “I believe we're making really good progress in
Iraq,” and I had a really wild knee-jerk reaction: I stood up and
screamed. ”NO,” I actually yelled out loud, “NO, you liar….it’s not
true!” I had screamed those words at a defenseless television screen
that was coming closer and closer to annihilation by the moment. But I
felt better for having done that.

“We didn't pass sovereignty but about 10 months ago,” the man continued,
“and since that time a lot of progress has been made. And we'll continue
to make progress for the good of the region and for the good of our
country.” Hearing those words, the faux journalists in the room seemed
pleased. Iraq was fine and dandy. How nice, they seemed to say, so now
let’s talk about the filibuster.

And that’s when I totally lost it.

That’s when I entered my parallel universe – the one in which I believed
I could actually make them hear me. The one in which I could vent my
disbelief directly at the cadre of ersatz press folks who were seated on
the screen. HEY YOU, I shouted at them, HEY YOU….

DIDN’T YOU PEOPLE HEAR WHAT HE JUST SAID? IS THERE NO ONE OUT THERE WHO
HEARD WHAT I DID? WHY ARE YOU JUST SITTING THERE? WHY ARE YOU LETTING
HIM GET AWAY WITH THE LIES? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? For Heaven’s sake,
WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO’S SCREAMING?

I was screaming, all right, and I knew exactly why. I was screaming
because I had reached the moment when I simply couldn’t take the lies
any more. More than two years had passed, and I was watching the same
docile acceptance of the same old propaganda. I was screaming at the
surrealist scenario being played out at a meaningless presidential press
conference. And most of all I was screaming because I knew what was
really happening out there.

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