[cia-drugs] trashing Stephen Colbert

[Linda Minor]

This Colbert issue reminds me of what Phil Graham, husband of Katharine Graham of the Washington Post said about the media shortly before he was locked up in a mental hospital and committed self-murder. As Carol Felsenthal relates in her book, as his depressive moods increased, Phil had become sick of “sapless Unitarianism” and was increasingly drawn to Catholicism to “bring some shape and rootedness to his life—real religion.”[i] Phil’s father had not been happy about his son’s marriage to Katherine Meyer.  He distrusted Wall Street and Jews.  At the end of his life, Phil was coming around to his father’s way of thinking.   While working to settle a strike involving the International Typographical Union against the publishers in April 1963, Phil told the union leader, Bertram Powers that a publisher could do anything he wanted to do and it wouldn’t be reported.  “I can go out to Times Square right now and shit,” he said, “and you wouldn’t read a word about it in any paper.”[ii]  Felsenthal emphasized how true that statement turned out to be the day after Graham’s “brilliant” tirade in Phoenix, when he was physically restrained and transported by Presidential jet to the nuthouse.  It was almost as if he wanted to prove his point, his self-hatred feeding the disdain he felt for his colleagues.  He had undoubtedly chosen to have his ugly breakdown practically in their laps.  With the exception of Sarah McClendon at her small Texas news service, no one in the country printed a word of it.[iii] [i] Felsenthal, p. 214. [ii] Felsenthal, p.  212, quoting from an interview with Powers. [iii] Felsenthal, p. 217. COLBERT SHOCKS MEDIA SILENT Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher The same media that's trashing Stephen Colbert gave a pass to Bush's jokes about missing WMDs in Iraq two years earlier. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/35804/ STEPHEN COLBERT'S REMARKS TO THE PRESIDENT 'The president makes decisions, he's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down.' http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/35797/ ... THE INTELLIGENCE WAR OVER IRAN Robert Parry, TomPaine.com Intelligence Czar John Negroponte splashes cold water on the neocons who are hot to attack Iran. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/35707/ ... HITCHENS TRASHED FOR WARMONGERING AND BAD MANNERS PEEK -- Juan Cole writes: 'We are not going to let you have a war on Iran... So sit down and shut up.' http://alternet.org/blogs/peek/35816 -->New in Multimedia: AGAINST THE GRAIN: SICKNESS AND WEALTH Against the Grain On this episode of Against the Grain, a look at how spending money on healthcare does not create a healthy society, and the relationship between wealth and health. http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/35690/ ______________________________ *** New in THE MIX: Maria Luisa Tucker asks, why do more Americans trust the government than the media? http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/35789/ Onnesha Roychoudhuri on how Enron is still wreaking havoc: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/35799/ *** The Latest From THE ECHO CHAMBER: Deanna Zandt on how the American dream has become a nightmare for most middle and lower class Americans http://www.alternet.org/blogs/echochamber/35783/ ______________________ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.