Both Sides Not 0
Driftglass dissects the unified Confederacy of Denial. A nugget (emphasis added):
He is writing it for the several thousand members of the Beltway Club who still go to bed at night a little worried that someday, somehow, someone might show up and demand that they be publicly brought to book for the shit they said and did back when it looked like the Age of Dubya would last forever and so nothing they said, no matter how loathsome or disgraceful or false would ever come back to haunt them.
But the Age of Dubya did come crashing down. And ever since then our Beltway Media — led by Bush Regime cheerleaders and dead-enders like David Brooks — has adopted a strategy of locking arms in a unified Confederacy of Denial.
Do please follow the link and rest the whole thing. It’s worth the three minutes.