Seymour Hersh: Obama Administration Narrative Of Bin Laden Death 'One Big Lie'
September 27, 2013 by Ben Bullard
Pulitzer journalist Seymour Hersh, who first earned recognition for breaking the My Lai massacre scandal, doesn't buy the Obama Administration's narrative of how Osama bin Laden was taken down. In fact, he thinks American media is mostly garbage and coddles President Barack Obama instead of hitting the streets to suss out the truth behind sanctioned press releases.
Hersh told The Guardian American media – and The New York Times, in particular – spends most of its energies "carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would."
From the interview:
Do you think Obama's been judged by any rational standards? Has Guantanamo closed? Is a war over? Is anyone paying any attention to Iraq? Is he seriously talking about going into Syria? We are not doing so well in the 80 wars we are in right now, what the hell does he want to go into another one for. What's going on [with journalists]?
…Why do newspapers constantly cite the two or three groups that monitor drone killings. Why don't we do our own work?
Our job is to find out ourselves, our job is not just to say – here's a debate' our job is to go beyond the debate and find out who's right and who's wrong about issues. That doesn't happen enough. It costs money, it costs time, it jeopardises, it raises risks.
As for the bin Laden narrative?
"Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," he said. "The Pakistanis put out a report, don't get me going on it. Let's put it this way, it was done with considerable American input. It's a bullsh*t report."
Hersh said his solution to the lapdog media problem would involve firing 90 percent of America's newspaper editors and replacing them with "editors that you can't control;" people "who look you in the eye and say, 'I don't care what you say.'"
Then he'd shut down the major television news networks and "start all over, tabula rasa."
Who wants to go first?
Ben Bullard Reconciling the concept of individual sovereignty with conscientious participation in the modern American political process is a continuing preoccupation for staff writer Ben Bullard. A former community newspaper writer, Bullard has closely observed the manner in which well-meaning small-town politicians and policy makers often accept, unthinkingly, their increasingly marginal role in shaping the quality of their own lives, as well as those of the people whom they serve. He argues that American public policy is plagued by inscrutable and corrupt motives on a national scale, a fundamental problem which individuals, families and communities must strive to solve. This, he argues, can be achieved only as Americans rediscover the principal role each citizen plays in enriching the welfare of our Republic.
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Seymour Hersh: Obama Administration Narrative Of Bin Laden Death 'One Big Lie'
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