Hey, Who Moved My Court?

Great column by Andrew Cohen, link below (It has the same title as above.  Cohen's was too good to mess with) in the Washington Post decries the surprise right turn in the Roberts court, and mainstream news and analysis failure to catch see the potential for the same during the confirmation hearings.

 In on respect they shouldn't be blamed too much. 

The current Chief Justice actually lied about his intentions during his confirmation hearings, as noted slyly by Mr. C.:

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is a lot less beholden to court precedent than we were all led to believe? Can't be. He told the Senate Judiciary Committee over and over again during his confirmation hearing that he would respect precedent and try to build consensus on the court.

Well, this week he took his coerced 5-4 decisions and stuck precedents to a bug board so everyone could see the carcasses. 

And mainstream news and analysis had some precedent to go by in not trusting any agent of the Bush administration.  If you don't want me to bring up the Colin Powell's speech to the UN Security Council with the picture covered with squares and circles that Powell said proved that Saddam had WMDs, then lets go with any of the other nominations of Bushies to their important posts from former A.G. John Ashcroft on down the line to General Petraeus, a man who never gets too far from Karl Rove approved propaganda and posturing.

Do read Mr. Cohen's agonista, but remember that we bloggers knew.  We were called whacko and shrill and have treatises written about our lack of balance by mainstream media.

Well, we knew the truth.

So I guess the truth is shrill and biased .

And excuse me, if I ignore anyone who comments or in otherwise implies that I must not believe that this week's decisions are worse than mainstream have told us they are.

We were right!  I was right!

And for now and in the future please note: Just because I haven't been given permission by big business controlled mainstream news media to think for myself is no reason I will ever stop.

It's not illegal yet.  But I'm sure the Bushies are working on it.  (Okay, that last part was a joke.  I think.) 

BTW, I'm having am having trouble keeping myself from excerpting another major part of Cohen's piece where he portrays Samuel Alito as John Roberts' mini-me.  So please click on through and read the piece before I pop an artery.

PS.  We were right about Iraq not having WMDs too.  That was something else that mainstream analysis missed when it was important.

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