TV Welcomes Liars, As Long as Their Lies Pay

In 2003, during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I wrote a newspaper column saying that the dubiously justified military overthrow of that nation was wrong and would bring not years but decades of major trouble for the United States and the world. 

I was right where all the Bush administration officials were wrong. Yet those same dead-wrong former officials, who got thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqs killed for nothing, are now on television once again, showering us with their sage advice about the crisis they caused.

Why? Because the American corporate media isn’t interested in pundits whose opinions are right. They’re interested in pundits whose opinions lead to a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary citizens into corporate coffers.