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“Reporters and columnists and pundits are busy cranking out the usual lame duck legacy stories, as if this were the “normal” end of a “normal” presidency, instead of the concluding chapter of a national tragedy. There is just a yawning disconnect between the nature of the crimes allegedly committed (and, in many cases, essentially admitted): waging aggressive war, torture, secret prisons, illegal wiretapping on a massive scale, obstruction of justice, perjury, conspiracy — and how the story is being treated in the corporate media. It’s not quite Pravda — at least some of the hard questions are being asked, if only half-heartedly — but it still has some of the same barely concealed, everybody-knows-even-though-we-are-not-allowed-to-say quality of Soviet discourse in the USSR’s terminal Potemkin Village phase” – Billmon in Daily Kos