Omission Accomplished

I’ve been having fun watching the videos from the 2004 ACLU Membership Conference, which are available here. The Gala Dinner, ‘America at a Crossroads’, in particular has some great stuff. After Sandra Tsing Loh [Sweet Chariot] and John Sayles, Seymour Hersh wanders on and, in his low-key, self-effacing way, drops some huge bombshells. Needless to say, what he said has been entirely ignored by the popular media in the US, though more widely reported outside the US and in the blogsphere. But then, when the word ‘fuck’ is unsayable, however would they deal with ‘sodomized’? But it sounds as if Hersh is waiting until the story is ready to launch complete and whole. The words ‘shit’ and ‘fan’ spring to mind.