{"id":967,"date":"2008-07-07T00:39:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T07:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=967"},"modified":"2008-07-07T00:39:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T07:39:36","slug":"the-suppresion-of-the-prosecution-of-george-w-bush-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"The Suppresion Of The Prosecution Of George W. Bush for Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Los Angeles county prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi, has published several best-selling books and received many awards for his writing. But he is still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/07\/business\/media\/07bugliosi.html?partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">having trouble<\/a> getting the media to cover the release of his current book, <em>&#8220;The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=newscorpsecom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=159315481X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>The book&#8217;s provocative title foretells a serious exploration of the legal case to be made for trying Bush for the murder of American soldiers killed in Iraq. The publisher describes the book as&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;&#8230;a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq. Bugliosi sets forth the legal architecture and incontrovertible evidence that President Bush took this nation to war in Iraq under false pretenses-a war that has not only caused the deaths of American soldiers but also over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women, and children; cost the United States over one trillion dollars thus far with no end in sight; and alienated many American allies in the Western world.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this successful, highly regarded author is being given a cold shoulder by the media who are instrumental in the marketing of such products. Bugliosi even reports that Comedy Central&#8217;s The Daily Show and MSNBC are declining to book him for interviews. He says that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;They are not responding at all. I think it all goes back to fear. If the liberal media would put me on national television, I think they&#8217;d fear that they would be savaged by the right wing. The left wing fears the right, but the right does not fear the left.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even worse, Jon Meacham of Newsweek admitted that the reason Bugliosi is being shut out is that, <em>&#8220;&#8230;there&#8217;s a kind of Bush-bashing fatigue out there.&#8221;<\/em> The notion that editors are blocking the promotion of controversial works on that basis is rather chilling. Firstly, because there is no foundation for drawing such conclusions. While there is plenty of disdain for Bush, who many historians have crowned the worst president ever, I have seen no evidence of the public tiring of documentary proof of that designation. Secondly, because the merit of the content ought to be the determinative factor as to whether to engage the author. If the work is meaningful, well-constructed, and has value to our society and its institutions, the media ought not to bury it for reasons that are arbitrary or biased.<\/p>\n<p>If someone of Bugliosi&#8217;s stature is inhibited in this manner, what does that portend for lesser known authors? What does that portend for free speech? Why can&#8217;t they just let the people decide?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Los Angeles county prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi, has published several best-selling books and received many awards for his writing. But he is still having trouble getting the media to cover the release of his current book, &#8220;The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.&#8221; The book&#8217;s provocative title foretells a serious exploration of the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[167,340,339],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-general","tag-george-w-bush","tag-jon-meacham","tag-vincent-bugliosi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-fB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9312,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9312","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":0},"title":"On The 10th Anniversary Of The Invasion Of Iraq Fox News Wants &#8220;Credit&#8221; For George W. 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