Blair just did what he was taught from his seniors in the newsroom.
"They say Knight-Ridder doesn't have a plan. Actually they do, " Ferrick said in an interview. "They are going to jettison the old, shoot the young and
torture the survivors, which, come to think of it, seems to be an industrywide plan."
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newspapers10oct10,0,2454830.story?coll=la-home-business
"If they wrote and published anything even remotely pro-American they think they might be viewed as being Government Stooges."
I agree but what these morons don't get is that America is the people, not the government.