by:
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Tea Party Nation activists calls for small business to "stop hiring," to protest Obama, Democrats.
It is no easy thing to astonish me. The deep, dark mineshaft of the
21st century has produced some of the most gruesome, appalling,
horrifying acts and behaviors ever seen on the skin of the Earth, and it
has been my job to report on them, to chronicle them, and to try and
make sense of them. The dangerous thing about this job, if you do it
long enough, is the callus that builds up over your heart and head. It's
a necessary thing; you can endure only so much for so long before the
urge to run screaming through the streets tries to take hold, and if
that happens, you're no good to anyone except your bail bondsman.
I reported on October 4, 2001 about George W. Bush looking into a brace
of news cameras to shill for tax cuts - he smiled as he did it - not
even a month after the Towers collapsed, even as we were shaking the
ashes of friends and co-workers out of our hair. I reported on Karl Rove
telling GOP congressional hopefuls to "run on the war," meaning Iraq,
months before the war had actually been unleashed. READ MORE
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