| The channel is sitting on the tape until it has enough evidence to back her story.
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| The channel is sitting on the tape until it has enough evidence to back her story.
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Indeed, but it will wind up working to our advantage. Just as claiming that a 6 hour pause in our advance on Baghdad was somehow a "quagmire," so too do these spiked stories eventually end up discrediting the Eastern Establishment press.
Especially the way that Bush plays them, ala sitting back while the hubbub about his "AWOL" Guard days started buzzing, only to shoot them all down by releasing all of his military records.
Ditto for the press getting busted fabricating stories at the Boston Globe, Jayson Blair at the New York Times, and the British press getting slammed for fabricating their "sexed up" charges against Tony Blair in London.
The press, broadly speaking, seems to be in what gamblers might call the "spiral of desperation." Gamblers can reach a point where they've lost so much...that they suddenly start to make crazy, long-shot bets in rapid succession (until finally they are flat broke).
Frankly, the Eastern Establishment news media seems very near to being at that point.
Oh, spare us. They're sitting on it because it's bad news about a Democrat. The media in the United States is so partisan that they literally spike stories to protect their Democratic buddies. Meanwhile, they howl like banshees about every unsupported allegation about a Republican. The partisanship is blatant, and it's becoming ridiculous.