Where's the Outrage?
How about an even "scarier" scenario...what if just 10% of the U.N. corruption was uncovered in the evil Halliburton Corporation or Enron or Walmart or Fox News or Rush Limbaugh's EIB empire. Wouldn't all hell be breaking loose 24/7/365? Do you think Dan Rather would be anything less than relentless?Imagine that a United States government program, Medicaid for example, had lost more than 20 billion dollars to blatant graft and corruption. Imagine that the executive director of that program had himself benefited personally to the tune of millions of dollars. Imagine that the President's son was under serious suspicion of being involved in the scandal. Imagine that the "independent" government investigation was being paid for with funds from the program itself. Imagine that some of the money skimmed off was used to fund a terrorist insurgency. Finally, imagine that the scandal permeated the government to such a degree that national security decisions were influenced.
Well it turns out that an active imagination really isn't necessary--all of these things actually happened under the auspices of the vaunted United Nations (UN) oil for food program in Iraq. What is clearly the single biggest case of humanitarian fraud in history, and what might be the largest financial fraud of any kind in modern times, has gone rather unnoted in the American media.
The fact that all hell isn't breaking loose is the very reason the Old Media has been relegated to the ashheaps of incredulity. They don't investigate people or institutions who share their own leftist views, and so the internet and talk radio have replaced them. News of the U.N. debacle is getting out and ever more people are becoming outraged. But don't credit the Old Media for initiating any investigations.
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