Two fairly significant events this week...

The first of which is the airing tonight of Bill Moyers documentary "Buying the War", marking his return to investigative journalism after an absence of three years. Amy had him on Democracy Now! this morning to talk about it.

Digby also notes the curious lack of a review in the NY Times and what that may mean:

LA Times:

Phil Donohue, fired as host of an MSNBC show in early 2003 says he was told he could have a war advocate on his program as a solo guest, but dissenters had to be balanced out from the right.

"Our producers were instructed to feature two conservatives for every liberal," he says.

There is no on representing the conservative argument here, not the deeper ideological reasons for believing in the Iraq invasion. But that's partly Moyers' position: In the run-up to war, point-counterpoint emerged as a devastating sham.

I guess it's not so surprising that the NY Times didn't bother to review this. It's cowardly, however.

I'm glad that Moyers has amassed the footage and put it all in one place so that people can see it again in its glory. It's a big story and I'll be interested to see how many of the most dizzying moments during that long national acid trip Moyers was able to capture.

The second is the release of the paperback edition of Greg Palast's new book, Armed Madhouse, which features some new material that the Cranium doesn't want you to read.

Greg's most recent post also sheds some interesting light on the role of Gonzo as the most recent sacrificial lamb to be left twisting in the wind:

1. It’s all about the 2008 election.
2. It’s not about Gonzales.

We’ve been here before. Gonzales is getting Libby’d. Takes the bullet for Karl Rove and the White House. If you wondered why the Republican jackals like the sinister Senator Specter piled on Gonzales — it’s because they were told to.

Rove and Bush are doing the Nixon Twist on Gonzales.

Look, I have no sympathy for Alberto the Doomed. He’s guilty of a crime I employed in racketeering cases: “Willful failure to know.” It’s a kind of fraud; Alberto was going way out of his way to not know what he had to know, that Rove and the President were toying with prosecutors.

Gonzales is their glove-puppet. Why fire him? The nation watches these hearings and wants to kill something.

But why shoot the puppet? It’s time to fire the puppeteer. Eh, Mr. Rove?

The more folks see the Cranium for what he is, the tighter the sights will train in on him...