Zero Hedge — Ten Bombshell Revelations From Seymour Hersh's New Autobiography

The cream of Sy Hersh's autobiography.

From a recent The Intercept interview and book review — If Hersh were a superhero, this would be his origin story. Two hundred and seventy-four pages after the Chicago anecdote, he describes his coverage of a massive slaughter of Iraqi troops and civilians by the U.S. in 1991 after a ceasefire had ended the Persian Gulf War. America’s indifference to this massacre was, Hersh writes, “a reminder of the Vietnam War’s MGR, for Mere Gook Rule: If it’s a murdered or raped gook, there is no crime.” It was also, he adds, a reminder of something else: “I had learned a domestic version of that rule decades earlier” in Chicago.
“Reporter” demonstrates that Hersh has derived three simple lessons from that rule:

• The powerful prey mercilessly upon the powerless, up to and including mass murder.
• The powerful lie constantly about their predations.
• The natural instinct of the media is to let the powerful get away with it....

Morons, or psychopaths and sociopaths, or a combination of both?

Zero Hedge
Ten Bombshell Revelations From Seymour Hersh's New Autobiography

Tyler Durden