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Today on Hard Ball, the section "tell me something I didn't know" included a prediction: the news will break at 12 journalists were killed by the US"
Doing a google on "us kills journalists" brought this up: 3 were killed in 2003.
This president has changed the rule book: institutions we called sacrosanct are not. Any journalist has to know that IF you cross the US, you can get killed.
Jounalists have been reduced from professionals to salaried employees. Thus, you act nice at press conference, of you and your employer cannot come back. You talk nice to Tim Russert even when he asks bullshit questions to get the answer he wants, or you can't come back.
NPR remains free, except it is painted with a brush more broad: be "fair and balanced" or we will cut off federal and state funds. We will toss you into the public arena, where you will NOT be safe: you may be "publicly" funded, but you might be called MCI public radio, or Coors public radio... and it's over.
Assuming invoking Christ invokes the man of the kindness, the parables, redemption and courage, Bush is the anti-Christ.