'How Ironic,' As They Say in the Comic Books

By Dan Hagen

Interesting. 

The national surveillance police state devours its own CIA head, and the Republicans' relentless media propaganda machine helps destroy the GOP's election chances. 
To me, it all echoes the Penn State situation, something I use in journalism ethics class as an example of the benefits of real journalism even to authoritarian organizations that hate it. Because that school effectively controlled and shut down all real independent, honest news coverage, the child sex scandal was never exposed, and was permitted to grow hideously until it blew up the entire organization. You can be so greedy for power that you choke yourself on it. 
"Ironic," the comic books said. And they were right. The villains do fall into their own traps. I never would have believed it.