Posted on 06/13/2005 9:36:48 AM PDT by areafiftyone
After about the 200th e-mail from a stranger demanding that I cease my personal coverup of something called the Downing Street Memo, I decided to read it. It's all over the blogosphere and Air America, the left-wing talk radio network: This is the smoking gun of the Iraq war. It is proof positive that President Bush was determined to invade Iraq the year before he did so. The whole "weapons of mass destruction" concern was phony from the start, and the drama about inspections was just kabuki: going through the motions.
Although it is flattering to be thought personally responsible for allowing a proven war criminal to remain in office, in the end I don't buy the fuss. Nevertheless, I am enjoying it, as an encouraging sign of the revival of the left. Developing a paranoid theory and promoting it to the very edge of national respectability takes a certain amount of ideological self-confidence. It takes a critical mass of citizens with extreme views and the time and energy to obsess about them. It takes a promotional infrastructure and the widely shared self-discipline to settle on a story line, disseminate it and stick to it.
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Developing a paranoid theory and promoting it to the very edge of national respectability takes a certain amount of ideological self-confidence drug induced delerium.
Lets see the actual memo first, not the hype. If WMD do not exist then the UN lied with their inspectors and the report that came out a couple ago from the UN is a lie also.
This memo must have been so stupid for the WP not to make like it's a cover of something deeper.
And today's BIG question is: Why does the editor of the LA Times write an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, and NOT his own paper?
BUMP!!!
i thought we went in too early without an adequate plan. i don't understand?@!
I've always considered the WashPost as the most rational of the big three liberal fishwraps. Unlike the NY and LA Times, they won't try and create a story out of nothing. If they've gone over this "memo" and can't find a smoking gun, it means this is just more Michael Moore, Howard Dean and Al Franken fantasy from the loony left.
Part of the problem is they are owned by a billionaire.
We'd be much better off establishing a wealth and income cap and stripping them of their surplus and distributing it among their 500 closest relatives.
Yes the Washington Post is the more rational of the liberal papers. The left is sooo excited because Raw Story put out six more supposed doucments which have no original sources like the Downing Street Memo. NO ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS! How can they actually believe that the MSM and Congress will impeach the president over Newpaper articles?
I wouldn't say Kinsley slams the memo. Actually, he seems to believe all of the allegations made by the left in regards to it. I don't read this as telling the liberals to just drop this and move on - I read it as him telling them "This looks promising, but you've got to keep manufacturing more 'proof'".
They have NO original documents to speak of. Even the Times of London could NOT get hold of the original document. They supposedly have six more documents that came out today and NONE of them are originals.
That didn't stop them from trying to take him down during the campaign with obviously forged TANG documents.
They are certifiably NUTS!
Is it going to be called the "Downing Street Gate"?
No doubt obtained via fax from a Kinko's in Texas....
DUmmie Street Gate!
You'll get no argument from me. "Fake but accurate" is now the standard for MSM "journalism", and minor little details like a lack of original documents are no reason to discard a story that you want to be true.
Excuse me while I go look out the window - I just want to check what color the sky is on this bizzare world we're in these days.
And when those guys attack..it's personal, it's mean and it's vicious. And they are letting Kinsley have it with both barrels.
Btw, the general consensus at DU is that the MSM is firmly in the Bush camp. They are propping up the "BushReich", as one raving lunatic put it. These guys are just loving the red meat that Dean is dishing up...they really think that this is the path they have to take back to "power" and the WH.
They are eating their own in Biden, Lieberman and Edwards...they are, literally, demanding that the Dems move further Left. I can see why one reporter referred to the DU'ers as part of the "psychiatric wing" of the Dem Party.
bump
Developing a paranoid theory and promoting it to the very edge of national respectability takes a certain amount of ideological self-confidence.
"Developing a paranoid theory and promoting it to the very edge of national respectability" has become the MO of the Democratic Party. Honestly, I've lost my sense of humor with these people. They are no longer funny. They won't fight for America, or democracy, or freedom, and they are endangering American lives.
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