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The McClatchy Company is, once again, proving itself to be about the only mainstream large-ish media company in the United States that is worth reading. In an extraordinary series of stories on Goldman Sachs McClatchy, whose motto is "truth to power", puts to shame their less than useless competitors.
McClatchy (along with Knight Ridder) was one of the only US media organizations to expose the lies that undergirded the track to war against Iraq before that war even started. And they did so by doing something most of our corporate media doesn't do- actual reporting. They didn't just take the word of anonymous government officials who spoon fed them made up out of whole cloth fairy tale lies (and then had the audacity to cite the publication or broadcast of their own lies by our corporate poodle media as further validation of their "reasons" to go to war.). McClatchy didn't do anything special. Many of the lies were exposed by small things- like fact checking! It should never be forgotten that the lies that got us into Iraq were exposed as such by many sources and people before the first "shock and awe" bomb was dropped and that this knowledge was there- for anyone who cared enough about truth to uncover it for themselves. There are no excuses.
And now, apparently McClatchy believes the wholesale corruption of Goldman Sachs and how they used their extensive- almost all pervasive- government contacts and access to destroy competitors and fleece Americans out of hundreds of billions to be of far more importance than made up phony baloney faux "scandals" like ACORN and their 53 million in federal aid over 15 years.
This is the sort of story a real grass roots conservative movement should be concerned with. But alas, we don't have one in this country- at least not one any decent person would want to be associated with.
