Lewis Lapham is the first “mainstream’ media editor, to call for George w. Bush’s political head. It’s about time. His editorial in the latest issue of Harper’s is outstanding. For me, this is his best line.
We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country’s good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world’s evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation’s wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies. In a word, a criminal–known to be armed and shown to be dangerous. Under the three-strike rule available to the courts in California, judges sentence people to life in jail for having stolen from Wal-Mart a set of golf clubs or a child’s tricycle. Who then calls strikes on President Bush, and how many more does he get before being sent down on waivers to one of the Texas Prison Leagues?
Damn you Lewis. I wish I had written that: so succinct, almost poetic in its controlled rage and agony over what this fool has done to our country, so speaking Truth to Power, something that has been missing in the media for too long.
