The simple wanker prize...

I have a number of names for my first "simple wanker" prize.

Now, the "simple wanker" can be anyone who's statements are quite around-the-bend, freaky, or looking like blatent propaganda lies.

The first winner is Michael R. Gordon, Chief Military Correspondent, for The New York Times.

Mr. Gordon was a voice of support for the Iraq War in 2002/2003, and has tried and actually managed to "step between the raindrops" as the Iraq enterprise has dissolved into the current fiasco. The best critique I have found to date about Mr. Gordon's clever journalistic footwork is from Alexander Cockburn at Counterpunch dot org.

Mr. Gordon is again hawking the ideological line from the administration when it comes to Iran and conflict.

However, this time around, people are not so trusting of the media and voices of alarm like Mr. Gordon's. Further, I wonder about Mr. Gordon's own mercenary interests. It seems a tad disingenuous of a military correspondent to hawk war. For Mr. Gordon it is job security and a chance for more honors no doubt, but for the young people charged with carrying out this insanity, it is a ticket to an early grave.

America does not need a war with Iran, nor does Israel, nor does the world.

Mr. Gordon, for your return to being an administration propaganda stovepipe you are this week's "simple wanker."

For a sharp rebuttal of Gordon's article in the NYT see this excellent posting from Glenn Greenwald.

the war-whooping bullshit. It's starting again.