Last Thursday, at Secretary of State Antony Blinken's last press conference, journalist Sam Husseini asked such pointed questions that they had to drag him out of the room.
I've long thought that a good journalist reported the news and did his or her best to avoid becoming the news. That was, I thought, a good rule. Sam and Max have demonstrated ever so courageously and effectively that, if that was a rule, it was one that had to be broken, better yet, shattered very publicly. Conscience demanded nothing less.
Israel's slaughter in Gaza of only God knows how many thousands of unarmed and defenseless Palestinians, women and children mostly, as well medical personnel and some two hundred journalists and media workers, has been a genocide committed with weapons supplied by the U.S. government with the fulsome support and deceitful complicity of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his colleagues.
That Sam was physically hauled out of the briefing room after Max was escorted out, each for asking questions that amounted to scathing in-your-face critiques of Blinken's collusion in genocide, delivered while Blinken was thanking members of the Washington press corps for "asking the hard questions", revealed to all the world the abject hypocrisy that characterizes American exceptionalism and its many crimes and excesses, not the least of which is the wholesale corruption of what passes for journalism in the USA and beyond.
We would do well to remember that Sam and Max have been practicing honest journalism for decades in the heart of the beast that is Official Washington, just as David has been doing the same, in public venues large and small around the nation and beyond, in irreverent song and well-crafted prose.
Thanks, David, for reminding us again that we are all in this together.
i don't see much nice about either of these presidential sociopaths, but certainly only one of them is a capable public speaker who can string a comprehensible sentence together, and it is not biden!
I've long thought that a good journalist reported the news and did his or her best to avoid becoming the news. That was, I thought, a good rule. Sam and Max have demonstrated ever so courageously and effectively that, if that was a rule, it was one that had to be broken, better yet, shattered very publicly. Conscience demanded nothing less.
Israel's slaughter in Gaza of only God knows how many thousands of unarmed and defenseless Palestinians, women and children mostly, as well medical personnel and some two hundred journalists and media workers, has been a genocide committed with weapons supplied by the U.S. government with the fulsome support and deceitful complicity of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his colleagues.
That Sam was physically hauled out of the briefing room after Max was escorted out, each for asking questions that amounted to scathing in-your-face critiques of Blinken's collusion in genocide, delivered while Blinken was thanking members of the Washington press corps for "asking the hard questions", revealed to all the world the abject hypocrisy that characterizes American exceptionalism and its many crimes and excesses, not the least of which is the wholesale corruption of what passes for journalism in the USA and beyond.
We would do well to remember that Sam and Max have been practicing honest journalism for decades in the heart of the beast that is Official Washington, just as David has been doing the same, in public venues large and small around the nation and beyond, in irreverent song and well-crafted prose.
Thanks, David, for reminding us again that we are all in this together.
Well, it will be nice to have a president who talks to the press again, whatever else you might think of him.
i don't see much nice about either of these presidential sociopaths, but certainly only one of them is a capable public speaker who can string a comprehensible sentence together, and it is not biden!