Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Shout it from the rooftops

Robert C. Byrd, senior Senator from West Virginia, is no liberal.  Yet his voice has been one of the very few in the nation’s most esteemed legislative chamber to speak out forthrightly about the dangerously reckless course on which George W. Bush has sent this nation careening.

Thanks to someone called CTDem2 (I presume this person is a Democrat from Connecticut), posting a comment on the consistently-interesting Daily Kos site, I just read Byrd’s February 12 Senate floor speech, a movingly powerful indictment of two years of Bush administration depredations wreaked upon the world and the country.

So how is the New York Times covering Byrd’s challenge?  In the early morning of February 13 (just after midnight Pacific Time), there’s nothing whatsoever on their website.  Same with CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, FoxNews, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times.  Boy, those “liberal” media sure do jump to cover stories slanted “their” way, don’t they?

Well, at least the Charleston Gazette back home in West Virginia picked up the story…