Mark Steyn: Iraqi spy case shows media at it again

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 14 March 2004 | Mark Steyn

[Skooz]

Excellent article. He hits the nail on the head so repeatedly that I cannot find just one quote to pull to post here.

Bravo.

[Skooz]

LOL! That is very good.

[Savage Beast]

"we usually come somewhere between Nigerian e-mail scammers and serial pedophiles"

Oh I'd put them--not you, Mark, let me hasten to say--between crack whores, who have an overwhelming craving to feed their habits, and the ones who are just out-and-out psychopathic.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I can't even name one of my second cousins.

Ditto. Your second cousins are the children of your parents' first cousins. You are descended from the same great-grandparents. I can't even name one of my parents' first cousins.

[Eva]

HERE'S a link to the PI article, the author's name is Matthew Daly. I am particularly in favor of the writing campaign because this headline is very typical of the PI bias. I have cancelled by subscription to the paper several times in protest. The first time was in 1991 when the paper ran a front page article on hurricaine Andrew, in which they claimed that Pres. Bush was only visiting Florida because he had relatives there and that disaster victims that lived in disaster prone areas don't deserve federal funds anyway (at least not during a Republican administration).

[blackie]

FYI ~ good stuff ~ Bump!

[tillacum]

Now you know why some of us don't watch F&F on the weekends. These two and maybe the third are weak sisters or democrats. They are the unbalanced of a so-called balanced tv network/station.

[cyncooper]

I have been wondering what "intelligence" the goofy chick could have gleaned from the democrats she was working for. And then it came to me that she was passing the "intelligence" to the democrats.

I've thought of that, too.

BTW, she IS goofy and loony seeming. All the more reason not to let the dems shrug her off as some fringer. She worked as a *spokesperson* for these dems. Whether they had any knowledge of her Iraqi sympathies or not, it calls into question their judgement in hiring this nutcase on their staffs. Same goes for the vaunted media that is dismissing her as nutty. They hired her, too!

Either the media and dems are drawn to crazy people (check) or she is playing the role of ditz in order to minimize her competency for her upcoming hearings.

[cyncooper]

I wonder if Steyn would consider a request to be Bush's press secretary. Can you imagine the exchanges in the briefing room?

Wow. I would PAY to watch those press briefings.

[SierraWasp]

"So don't panic if I don't answer for awhile after today."

Hey! You din't panic when I took a week off to pout over the local election results!!! (grin)

Have a nice week. See ya later, Gladiator!!!

I may ping ya anaways, justa give ya ping overload when yew gits back! Then you can REALLY painic... Ha Ha Ha!!!

[doc11355]

"Your second cousins are the children of your parents' first cousins."

Thanks for clearing that up. What, then, are first cousins once removed?

[Bullish]

Liberal "journalists" are so damn pathetic in their desperate lies. They're so blinded by their hatred of Bush and everything Republican that they'll say and write anything if it helps stain and defeat Bush.

We as the American people shouldn't stand for this any longer. We're in a war and these guys are aiding our enemies just so they can win an election. They're utterly dangerous and irresponsible.

[maggief]

Your first cousins once removed are your parents' first cousins.

[ValerieUSA]

Former Seattle journalist accused of helping Iraq: 'I'm innocent'

[ValerieUSA]

"I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else," said Lindauer, who has a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics. "I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible."

[ValerieUSA]

For two years Lindauer was on the editorial board of the Everett Herald - Everett is north of Seattle.
AQ has infiltrated the press around the world. That's the source of their power. That's how they make sure terrorism works to get what they want.
Don't forget the hero worship afforded dead terrorist Rachel Corrie from the press.

[ValerieUSA]

Eva, we had a thread going here on the Seattle Times' article regarding Lindauer's employment at the PI.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1096687/posts

[cyncooper]

Valerie, I skimmed and had missed that. You can bet now that I won't be forgetting she has an advanced degree if and when we are told she's just some nut.

Thank you for highlighting that!

[Eva]

The article that linked Lindauer to the Bush administration was published on the eleventh.

[McGavin999]

Two hundred people died in Madrid because of a war Democrats refuse to admit exists.

As far as I'm concerned, this just about says it all.