Poor Bob Somerby. He’s been howling that the press hasn’t been willing to explain the Social Security proposals. But now that some in the media are attempting to do so, it’s worse.
Andrews’ explanation is so incoherent that we’ve been forced to rethink our own past stand! If this is the best the press corps can do, perhaps it’s really just as well that they took that pass back in Campaign 2000.…But Andrews’ account is almost wholly incoherent.
As Somerby goes on to point out, “Bush will soon propose a major change to our most important social program. Is American democracy, in 2005, capable of holding a real discussion?”