Pretzel Logic
September 28, 2005
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From a piece first published on January 18, 2002, in The Moscow Times:
The bloviations of public hypocrisy are a never-ceasing wonder to behold. The art of mouthing sanctimonious twaddle while peddling murderous hardball on the side requires a degree of moral dislocation – an almost total divorce of word from deed, of image from reality – rarely seen outside madhouses, government offices, televised pulpits and certain caves in remote Afghanistan.
And these days there are no more adept practitioners of this dark art than those mighty Twin Towers now holding up the values of Western Civilization – George
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while. There is of course no genuine opposition to Bush at all in the American power structure; there are only varying degrees of craven collusion, punctuated by occasional spasmodic regurgitations of sham dissent – cynical evocations of past glories, all talk, no action. 
pocketbooks and advance their radical, rapacious agenda. Read it, and be sure to follow the links which highlight one of the most emblematic elements of this cannibals’ rout: the attempt by ludicrous Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions (right — very right) to find dead rich white people killed by the storm. Why? In order to advance the