Fed up?
Diminishing Marginal Outrage?June 01, 2006Robert Scheer wants to know why the media is mostly ignoring connections between George Bush and Enron, particularly connections to Ken Lay:
Kenny Boy's Connections, by Robert Scheer, The Nation: The Bush Family consistently acted to put Enron and its longtime CEO Ken Lay into a position to rip off investors and taxpayers. Why is the mass media ignoring that fact now that Lay has been convicted in arguably the most egregious example of white-collar fraud in US history?
Until he hooked up with the Bushes, Lay was just another mid-level energy trader complaining endlessly about being hemmed in by onerous government regulations and those terrible consumer lawyers who prevent free market hustlers from doing their thing. But after he and his company became top supporters of the Bushes--eventually giving $3 million combined to various Bush electoral campaigns and the Republican Party--doors opened for them in a big way. In particular, once Bush the father got rid of key energy industry regulations, Lay was a made man and Enron's fortunes soared...
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I'm finding I am subject to diminishing marginal outrage, and maybe I'm not alone. It's hard to get worked up about every potential scandal when there are so many. There are revelations about this administration almost daily it seems at times that would have been huge news during the Clinton years. Because the events were relatively isolated under Clinton, each was the subject of intense focus. But now, with the number of potential scandals multiplying so fast as time passes, the added news value of each new bit of information is diminished and much of it passes by with barely a squeak from the press.
So very true... In addition to being a case of diminishing marginal outrage, it may even be outright "Outrage Fatigue"... I know I'm tired unto exhaustion just trying to comprehend how many, and how egregious, the multitude of
Bush crimes have been.
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