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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| 11-20-05
| Jack Kelly
Posted on 11/20/2005 2:19:57 PM PST by smoothsailing
There were developments this week in a non-scandal that has attracted enormous media attention, and in a major scandal that has attracted hardly any.
Washington Post editor Bob Woodward admitted he learned from a source other than I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, that Valerie Plame, wife of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, worked at the CIA.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: attaabledanger; cialeak
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
11/20/2005 2:23:10 PM PST
by
rellimpank
(urbanites don' t understand the cultural deprivation of not being raised on a farm:NRABenefactor)
To: smoothsailing
Jack Kelly is excellent... again.
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posted on
11/20/2005 2:29:03 PM PST
by
johnny7
(“What now? Let me tell you what now.”)
To: smoothsailing
Gallons of ink and hours of airtime have been devoted to faux victims Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson in a case that has much to do with politics and nothing to do with national security. Shouldn't journalists devote some attention to Tony Shaffer, a real victim, and a scandal that really does involve national security? To put it in the cynical terms this question inevitably suggests, What's in it for the Democrats?
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posted on
11/20/2005 2:29:16 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: smoothsailing
Able danger retards the agenda therefor it is a nonstory.
The msm is our enemy the same as AQ
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posted on
11/20/2005 2:31:24 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. ; N.P . Remember the Maine, Remember the Alamo..... Remember Murtha)
To: smoothsailing
The news media picks and chooses what it wants to cover. And its bias generally shows.
To: Cicero
Exactly.
Kelly spells it out... but stops short of declaring the MSM/DNC cabal. Once you accept this fact, everything falls into place.
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posted on
11/20/2005 2:39:54 PM PST
by
johnny7
(“What now? Let me tell you what now.”)
To: Cicero
Anything helpful to the WOT and the Bush administration is always buried in the back pages if it's published at all.
Kelly makes it clear that the old media has a template that dovetails with DNC talking points.Even if reporters wanted to report helpful news, their motives would be suspect, and few have the character or courage to rock the boat.
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posted on
11/20/2005 2:52:32 PM PST
by
smoothsailing
(540th TC (AM)(GS) QuiNhon 68-69)
To: johnny7
the MSM/DNC cabalTo call them a "cabal" would imply that they are separate entities, when in fact they are the same people.
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posted on
11/20/2005 2:53:56 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: smoothsailing
Even if reporters wanted to report helpful news, their motives would be suspect, and few have the character or courage to rock the boat.Indeed. Witness the Marxist Media rage against Judith Miller, and now Bob Woodward.
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posted on
11/20/2005 2:55:32 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: Jeff Chandler
Indeed. Witness the Marxist Media rage against Judith Miller, and now Bob Woodward. Wouldn't you be bitter too if you got poked in the eyes?
Twice.
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posted on
11/20/2005 4:14:40 PM PST
by
woofer
(I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.)
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