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To: Darkwolf377
I love Michelle Malkin, but she's so very wrong in this case that it's not funny.

Agreed.

Much of her material (and she's by no means alone in this) has been fact-challenged.

Innuendo, speculation dressed up as fact, etc.

The greatest infraction was her lengthy wrap-up of supporting opinion (on Wednesday?), but which rested on bold statements with no factual backup or specific examples. Frank Gaffney - whom I normally admire and who was cited by Malkin - also took the line of general accusation with no specifics. I'd already concluded that there was little factual basis to be against the DP World deal, but this piece really sewed it up for me.

20 posted on 02/25/2006 3:36:19 AM PST by angkor
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To: angkor; Miss Marple; Darkwolf377
Frank Gaffney - whom I normally admire...

He was the first I heard to call attention to this deal. He was on every talk show that I listen to, (which does not include Michael Savage - but I can imagine their conversation!)

From his sounding the alarm, elected officials began to be asked for comments. None of them had a clue about the deal but that did not stop most from making knee-jerk comments.

Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin and some at NRO got on the hysteria bandwagon. As soon as the press corps got over their Cheney fixation, they were able to focus on this.

And so Americans have spent the past week, sounding a lot like the folks around the world who got hysterical over reports of drawings of the prophet.

It has been profoundly disallusioning for me - I have had to switch to Discovery Health, or HGTV to regain some compusure.

35 posted on 02/25/2006 4:07:02 AM PST by maica (We are fighting the War for the Free World. Democrats and the media are not on our side.)
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