An email "error"? Or a cover-up? It's worth page C8
This is a follow-up to the item I posted Saturday. I literally spent 45 minutes looking for this thing in the paper. I knew I'd seen it in there. This ran in the Bangor Daily News on Wednesday last week, the same day the paper carried it's first story on Stephen King's remarks about limits to opportunity for people with low skills, "...if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that."
Wingnuttia was all over that—the King remark, that is. It does not matter to them if there is any easily-seen evidence—as the BDN did give Mr. King space to explain—that poor reading skills do limit opportunity, and military grunt jobs these days with very high risk for injury and death in this country's wars are often one of those limited options.
None of 'em give a hoot about the human wreckage of the war and they never did. It's a crazymaking. Christ! One thousand attempted suicides per month!? There is a permanent nightmare looming over our future directly because of this war. And they can't see it in wingnuttia. Their only comfort is to latch onto celebrity remarks perceived as "liberal" and wave the flag over them while throwing a tantrum. It's a damn shame that the Bangor Daily News takes this lead and plays along for days on the front page. This administration's real, consequential cover-up of the situation merits only one tiny item on C8.
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