What the fuck?!

First, Bush's military records of his service (or lack thereof, I guess we'll never know at this point) in the Texas Air National Guard mysteriously "disappear." Now this bullshit about the secretly recorded audiotapes leading up to his 2000 presidential election campaign. In a nutshell, the tapes have been handed over to the White House and the matter is considered closed, according to White House press secretary Scott McClellan. Geez, I thought Ari Fleischer irritated me. The current avatar of the Mouth of Bush is just as bad. Anyway, here's the scoop from CNN.

Argh. Just one more example of how little the Bush administration regards the press media. Or rather, it seems that the administration has realized that it can punish uncooperative members of the media (and by "uncooperative" I mean "critical" and by "critical" I mean anyone with a spine who can think for themselves) while rewarding (literally!) "journalists" who are willing to squawk like parrots to promote the administration's policies. And if anyone cries foul, the administration will just unleash the force of the Justice Department on the sorry bastards who had the guts to speak out. Valerie Plame. Armstrong Williams. "Jeff Gannon." Not a shining moment in the history of American journalism right about now. Not at all.