[txradioguy]

Too bad the Liberal Media Bias is "imaginary". At least according to the Libs.

[lilylangtree]

If he's such a wonderful reporter, why doesn't he report on the truth about Nick Berg's assassination? Or is that small potatoes for a big man like himself (SARC)?

[pilgrim]

Is this another 'Clymer"?

[jnarcus]

How can ANYONE believe Seymour? I mean he claimed that Bush the dad flew in an SR71 to go to some secret assignation in Paris when he was clearly in the States campaigning...come on this guy is a crap throwing lefty If he says it it must be a lie

[TheSpottedOwl]

I can just see this bum write an article about how Rummy planted that sarin loaded munition.

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

EDITOR'S NOTE: The man behind many of the most provocative Abu Ghraib stories — Seymour M. Hersh of The New Yorker — is one of the best-known reporters in the business. But that doesn't mean he always gets his facts right. "If the standard for being fired was being wrong on a story, I would have been fired long ago," he once said. Hersh has admitted to lying to his sources and one former editor accused him of blackmailing them. Can he be trusted today?

[MEG33]

Sy will be on Chris Matthews....They are inplicating a Rumsfield order in Newsweek, the control over the unit by MI and CIA agents as the reason for the abuse...

Get Rummy is the point, of course and there are enough Army Pentagon and retired Army Generals backing them to get rid of Rumsfield to make this threatening...I am concerned...

Since when has the media had to be accurate to create big problems?

[TBP]

The latest New Yorker story quickly became the latest Hersh controversy. Top military officials have denied its primary claim of a disastrous mission that included serious casualties. "That's not true," said Gen. Myers on Meet the Press, when Tim Russert asked him about the article. "My belief is that every soldier that came back from that particular raid is back on duty today; none of them seriously injured, certainly none of them injured by the Taliban." Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem concurred: "The reports I have seen just don't support that article's supposition." Army Gen. Tommy Franks added, "We had a bunch of these young people who, you know, had scratches and bumps and knocks from rocks and all this sort of stuff. And so, it's-it's probably-it's probably accurate to say that maybe-maybe five or maybe 25 people were, quote, 'wounded.' We had no one wounded by enemy fire."

But we now know, thanks to the Democrat nominee for President, that "scratches and bumps and knocks from rocks and all this sort of stuff" [b]are[/b] serious injuries. You can win multiple Purple Hearts for that kind of thing!

[TBP]

The latest New Yorker story quickly became the latest Hersh controversy. Top military officials have denied its primary claim of a disastrous mission that included serious casualties. "That's not true," said Gen. Myers on Meet the Press, when Tim Russert asked him about the article. "My belief is that every soldier that came back from that particular raid is back on duty today; none of them seriously injured, certainly none of them injured by the Taliban." Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem concurred: "The reports I have seen just don't support that article's supposition." Army Gen. Tommy Franks added, "We had a bunch of these young people who, you know, had scratches and bumps and knocks from rocks and all this sort of stuff. And so, it's-it's probably-it's probably accurate to say that maybe-maybe five or maybe 25 people were, quote, 'wounded.' We had no one wounded by enemy fire."

But we now know, thanks to the Democrat nominee for President, that "scratches and bumps and knocks from rocks and all this sort of stuff" are serious injuries. You can win multiple Purple Hearts for that kind of thing!

[BlueAngel]

Bump for morning reading.

[CyberAnt]

O'Reilly's interview with Hersh was good. BO said that he had information that some of the "facts" in Hersh's story were blatantly false. BO claimed that Hersh had been duped and offered bogus information.

[GOPJ]

FYI ping.

[Just mythoughts]

Well old Sly Sy claimed his "intel" came from the top and from the inside. I could not help but think of "hillry".

[Criminal Number 18F]

Like many Hersh stories, Hersh's Rumsfeld-bash on the Abu Ghraib thing is credited to a single, anonymous source. Hersh further says the source is Agency -- which means the source would not be well-informed about stuff in the DOD, eh?


In other words, Hersh heard from one guy with an axe to grind, pushing a probably false, agenda-driven story, and that was his "Scoop." As usual.

Good rule of thumb: believe nothing from anonymous sources -- not even the existence of the sources. Many reporters routinely use "anonymous" sources as vehicles for their own opinions and prejudices.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F