On Judith Miller and Kool-Aid

Derek Seidman over at Left Hook, recounts his experience seeing Judith Miller, New York Times mediawhore, speaking at his college campus. You can also read his article over at Counterpunch. Here's a small excerpt:

Miller began her talk sounding like an enlightened liberal and ended it sounding like a desperate fanatic clinging for anything to justify the actions of United States. She claims Arab anger at the US is simply deflected from the anger at their own leaders, yet she grudgingly admits that we have supported these very regimes-and defends doing so. These regimes could hardly exist without our support, and several have come into existence on our initiative. Surely the Arab people are not aloof to this history. Further, she tells us of the virtues of the Shah as opposed to the Ayatollah. Whatever truth there may or may not be to this, the US was supporting the Shah for decades before the threat of Islamic fundamentalism was even a possibility, let alone embodied in Iran's theocracy.

The establishment media never lets the facts get in the way of their reporting...