Delusional Sociopaths

Frank Rich wrote today about how this Administration's intent is "not to kill off PBS and NPR but to castrate them by quietly annexing their news and public affairs operations to the larger state propaganda machine that the Bush White House has been steadily constructing at taxpayers' expense."

As he writes: "If you liked the fake government news videos that ended up on local stations - or thrilled to the "journalism" of Armstrong Williams and other columnists who were covertly paid to promote administration policies - you'll love the brave new world this crowd envisions for public TV and radio."

Tonight I watched BBC news. It made Fox's blurbs look like cotton candy that has fallen in dirt: besmirched fluff.

One story: Turns out Donald Rumsfeld has been negotiating with "insurgents" for months as they've been killing our troops.

So why doesn't he just call a truce and negotiate in earnest so our troops stop dying?

We all know why. It's all just strategy and a big board game to him.

So completely untouched by the tragedy and pain suffered by so many, it's obvious he has no empathy.

Isn't lack of empathy a symptom of the sociopath?

Plus he suffers from perceptual blindness. He only sees what he wants to see.

Usually delusional, sociopathic people are placed in institutions so they are unable to harm others.

Unfortunately, our government is run by these sociopathic lunatics and they are hurting people right and left.

And that's why this Administration wants to get PBS in lockstep with their perception. They don't see that we lost the war in Iraq about two weeks after we started it due to Rumsfeld's bungling.

(Remember, he's the one who told the Pentagon to ignore the State Department report that predicted the chaos we've seen for two years.)

But they don't care. They like "creative destruction" - as long as they aren't the ones losing legs - or family members - over it. Rumsfeld's still talking about years of commitment.

What he's talking about is a whole generation of young Americans being slaughtered - and he's okay with that.

He's okay with 40,000 people coming back without arms, legs, eyes.

Really, it's all right with him.

No big deal.

Imagine.