Donald Rumsfeld is the latest person edging away from criminal responsibility for the Iraq disaster but rather than shifting the blame to the rest of the Bush-Cheney regime for what was doomed from the start to be a quagmire, he, like other media commentators, is now trying to blame president Obama for the mess that he inherited and has led to the current state of affairs.
Larry Wilmore says that these people seem oblivious to the fact that as public figures, their words were recorded and that they cannot lie their way out of historical facts.
One thing I’ve found particularly striking in the last few years is the degree to which people will unquestioningly accept false media narratives about recent history. Here in the UK, there are a surprising number of people who are now absolutely convinced that the 2008 financial crash was caused by excessive public spending.