Posted on 10/26/2004 3:40:20 PM PDT by conservativecorner
The right-wing media is out to screw the Kerry campaign! First CBS News tricked Kerry and the Democrats into running "Bush was AWOL" ads by broadcasting what they knew to be forged memos. Now Kerry has been duped into co-opting a phony issue into his stump speeches by the New York Times!
We understand that it's an important election -- but it just isn't fair for the New York Times and CBS News to sabotage the Kerry/Edwards ticket in the last week of the campaign!
sarcasm!!
"NYTrogate" (read nitro-gate) was the brilliant name bestowed on this story by Polipundit readers.
Cliff May over at the Corner writes:
Sent to me by a source in the government: “The Iraqi explosives story is a fraud. These weapons were not there when US troops went to this site in 2003. The IAEA and its head, the anti-American Mohammed El Baradei, leaked a false letter on this issue to the media to embarrass the Bush administration. The US is trying to deny El Baradei a second term and we have been on his case for missing the Libyan nuclear weapons program and for weakness on the Iranian nuclear weapons program.”
Drudge:
60 MINS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE
News of missing explosives in Iraq -- first reported in April 2003 -- was being resurrected for a 60 MINUTES election eve broadcast designed to knock the Bush administration into a crises mode.
was nice to see Brit Hume take the NY Slimes to task on this situation....
GOOD,,,,,PING
THIS IS AN EXPLOSIVE STORY!!!
I love the ending.
KERRY (today): "And what did the President have to say about the missing explosives? NOT A WORD. COMPLETE SILENCE."
NBC REPORTER (2003): "And President Bush today ordered a full investigation."
I think we're sitting on a powderkeg here.
You're link's wrong:
http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/10/nytrogate.html
This link may work!
http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog
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The link at the top works fine if you are having problems with the other!
Man, I hate doing that. YOUR, YOUR, YOUR.
Your link does not work. It brings me back to this thread.
This is most awesome .. and I loved the fact that Jim finished up the report by bringing up the dispute between the US and the IAEA and stating that the release of the letter so close to the election appeared to be political.
Kudos to NBC for this accurate report. The jury is still out on other stuff.
Don't be giving kudos to NBC....they are reporting that their report was misconstrued by Bush camp.
Out-(insert expletive here)-standing.
"GOOD LINK THERE" BUMP!
Out-(insert expletive here)-standing
must be a military thing
Hat Tip to THE G MAN:
Brit Hume Interview with former NBC Reporter
Former NBC news reporter, Dana Lewis (now of Fox News), was interviewed tonight by Brit Hume. Lewis was with the 101st when they rolled into Al-Qaqaa in April 2003 and confirms the reports we've been hearing. Says there was no sign anywhere of UN markings,wire,locks, etc on any facilities anywhere, indicating that all the materials the UN inspectors had inventoried and tagged had been removed. There were some locked buildings but best he could tell, any munitions that he saw were damaged. Described bent rockets, etc. Says there was NO WAY a convoy of trucks could have gotten in there under the nose of the 101st at that time.
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