robert scheer: RIP

* robert scheer: "On Friday I was fired as a columnist by the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, where I have worked for thirty years. The publisher, Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Fortunately sixty percent of Americans now get the point, but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher."
holy shit. and the replacement is JoGo. incredible.

* "So the Los Angeles Times drops Bob Scheer. His crime? Being right, out front, and lucidly insightful from first to last about the dishonest seduction of the American people into the war in Iraq; and the immorality and practical harm to our standing in much of the world of carrying mass destruction half a world away for no good reason." (link)