Posted on 10/16/2005 11:17:47 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
And here I ask myself, "I must be a dumbass, because it looks like their allegations of Libby just fell apart, but all of the NYT, Time magazines Fineman, and all of the rest are like elk in a frenzied rut, just about the stick it to the administration. I keep reading and concluding the same thing, and they keep writing and repeating the same thing. Both are 180 degrees out of phase from one another". Who is living in fantasy land?
As I understand Miller's version of events, she said she "couldn't remember" whether Libby mentioned Plame's name. I don't see how you get a conviction out of "I can't remember" from the key witness. The MSM is salivating over nothing.
I am of the opinion that miller never had a source to begin with. I don't think novak did either. The "source" is " I do not recall". To me that is a cop out.
I think the media hounds decided to print information they THOUGHT was right and had nothing to back it up but "anonymous sources". Furthermore, I think they printed ( or were going to print) other information they knew or thought to be false in an attempt to get tuthful information.
I believe in the right to speak. However, I think accountability is needed. I for one am SICK AND TIRED of anonymous sourcing. If there is no source named, then I think the writing or the reporting needs to be in the OP ED section and NOT the NEWS section.
If anonymous sourcing is further protected, we will see MORE false reporting not more truthful reporting.
The MSM has made their bed and the last couple years have shown many people the light. Dan rather....I thank you for helping that (LOL).
I think that this whole "Rove"..."Cheney"...."White house" investigation was a HUGE DUCK MISSION that is a direct result of POOR journalism standards.
They might go to jail yet. The talk is that they could go for inconsistencies in their stories to the GJ. Can't get 'em on one thing, go for the next. How else do you justify the cost of a special prosecutor?
Very interesting comment. Wilson mentioned nepotism in his October 5 MTP interview.
RUSSERT: Was there a suggestion that this was cronyism, that it was your wife who had arranged the mission?
WILSON: I have no idea what they were trying to suggest in this. I can only assume that it was nepotism. And I can tell you that when the decision was made, which was made after a briefing and after a gaming out at the agency with the intelligence community, there was nobody in that room when we went through this that I knew.
I wonder if Wilson is the source for the "nepotism" allegaton.
Why was the CIA not concerned that Plame outed herself to Wilson during a "heavy makeout session" on their third date?
Or that Wilson outed himself by saying in his NYT article that he was sent by the CIA.
Nevertheless, Miller and the Times can be believed on their GOP exoneration. They would never go to jail to obstruct an investigation so as to protect a Republican source since their whole editorial strategy has been to find and publish embarrassing material to damage or destroy the Bush administration and to suppress all contrary information on Democratic corruption, Kerry's dishonorable discharge, WMD and Iraq, Able Danger data mining, Air America and the Gloria Wiese scandal, Louis Freeh on Clinton's graft, etc.
If da glove don't fit, ya gotta acquit.
The CIA - FB&I - DEA - BATF - NSA - NEA - FOB we'd be better off without the whole group.
Bill Kristol wants to see Rove and Libby indicted and marched off in handcuffs even more than the leftists do. Anything that harms George Bush only enhances his man, John McCain.
Kristol's ultimate wet dream - one day in mid 2007, John McCain and some of his RINO friends make a trip to the White House, to tell an embattled George Bush, facing articles of impeachment from the democrat controlled House of Representatives, that he doesn't have any support in the Senate, and that he needs to resign "for the good of the country."
....and we have a Winner
Yes, this is the real long-term lesson here. I hope the reporters realize that they have cut their nose to spite their face.
One of these days, I hope to see reporters actually REPORT news, not try to create it, interpret or analyze it.
Send links to the article to all your friends by e-mail. With the internet, the MSM no longer has control over distribution of news.
Believe me I do. But as impossible as it sounds I still have some rellies that do not have, or refuse to use, the internet and consequently still believe EVERYTHING they see on the alphabet news networks.
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