Some say the Bilderberg Group vets potential candidates for US president and has veto power.  Others point to the power the media have.  Al Gore in a recent speech said

Our democracy has been hollowed out. The opinions of the voters are, in effect, purchased, just as demand for new products is artificially created.

Media is the context in which all politics occurs nowadays.  A man (or woman) doesn't get to be president who doesn't know how to use the media to full advantage.  But mustn't there be something in it for the media?  Not the beat reporters and the anchors; i mean the owners.  Those on the highest rungs of the ladder, who know what power the media have, don't they have a stake in who gets elected? And don't they have the power the influence outcomes?

For that matter, who let Judith Miller loose? i don't mean from jail; i mean to do all that reporting on weapons of mass destruction that weren't there.  But i digress.

There are Powers in our country that work behind the scenes.  Big Money.  Lobbyists.  Special interest groups.  Among the most powerful are those who control the media.

But really, who runs the country?  Skull and Bones?  Some secret cabal of very rich people? 

Whoever it is needs a fall guy.

The choice to go to war was deliberate and immoral.  We were not under attack nor was there a clear and present danger of attack from Saddam Hussein.  Americans will have a guilty conscience until they find someone guiltier than they are to take the blame.  A guilty conscience will not support the war effort.  The powers that be need Americans to support the war effort because there's a lot more fighting to come.  Americans need to feel good about the war.

So Dick Cheney has to go.

Because if Dick Cheney did it, George W Bush didn't.